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Based on the author Cathy Urquhart's own wealth of experience this timely, engaging book helps first-time researchers to discover the excitement of grounded theory method. Fresh, innovative and clear, this book traces the history and development of grounded theory method, and examines how the method is evolving for new contexts today. It sets out the principles involved in using grounded theory method and explains the process and theory associated with coding in grounded theory. Grounded Theory for Qualitative Research introduces us to the practicalities of research design, theory building, coding and writing up and gives us the tools to tackle key questions: • What is grounded theory? • How do we code and theorize using grounded theory? • How do we write up a grounded theory study? This is an exciting new text for students and researchers across the social sciences who want to use grounded theory method.
Building the Theory
Building the Theory
This chapter:
- • gives two examples of theoretical coding, building on the examples in the previous chapter
- • shows how relationships between categories at a lower level can be elevated
- • shows how theoretical memos help us to theorise
- • shows how diagrams help us understand relationships between categories.
Introduction
This chapter looks at theoretical coding, which, you will recall, is the process of relating categories. We do this in some detail, using the extended examples we have just seen in Chapter 5.
The previous chapter covered the first two stages of GTM – open and selective coding – and this is the third, most critical, stage: actually thinking about how the categories relate to each other. Without these statements of relationships, we are not theorising. If we ...
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