- First identify the area of interst
- Then collect data pertaining to area of interest
- Code collected data into various categories until core categories and/or main concerns emerge (open coding)
- Continue to collect data and code into the core categories, refine categories as needed (selective coding)
- Collect samples based on specific characteristics and continue to code data (theoretical sampling)
- Once the categories are saturated, begin to form the theory
- Read and integrate literature into theory
- Write up theory

Steps to use Grounded Theory

Pros:
- Can use quantitative and qualitative data of any type
- Gives the ability to seek out and conceptualize the latent social patterns and structures of various areas of interest through the process of constant comparison

Cons:
- Have to conduct significant amount of analysis before knowing what is going to be studied
- Very time consuming

Pros and Cons to Grounded Theory

- Glaser (Classic)
- Strauss and Corbin
- Charmaz

Three basic types of Grounded Theory

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- Grounded theory is a research tool that enables you to seek out and conceptualize the latent social patterns and structures of your area of interest through the process of constant comparison.
- Use an inductive approach where you make broad generalizations from specific obersrvations
- The generalizations will help suggest where to go next to collect data and which, more-focused, questions to ask

What is Grounded Theory?

http://www.groundedtheoryonline.com/what-is-grounded-theory/

What is Grounded Theory? (Dr. Helen Scott and Dr. Antoinette McCallin)

People should use Grounded Theory as a research method to develop a theory that offers an explanation about the main concern of their population and how that concern is resolved.

Price through use of initial coding, and refining of those codes through axial coding, arrived at four broad themes of Crip Spacetime: Space, Time, Cost, and Accompaniment. These four themes were revised as the specific codes they arose from were revised.

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