this research design is a “simple procedural method formulated to generate substantive, conceptual theory” (p. 72). While no person would ever doubt Glaser, it might be more useful to novice researchers to elaborate on (and clarify) what he said. Grounded theory is a research design ...
Lecturer in Medical Sociology Department of Oral Health and Development School of Clinical Dentistry ii The Grounded Theory Review (2007), vol.6, no.2 Sheffield, UK Email: b.j.gibson@sheffield.ac.uk Cheri Ann Hernandez...
Given that cultural elements play an important role in the behaviour of individuals in the aftermath of trauma, the applicability of a Western-based posttraumatic growth theory to explain the experience of Chinese Crohn’s disease patients is yet to be determined. Therefore, the objective of this ...
1). The participants in this study and their educational and research backgrounds explained in Table 1. As leaders, the participants have been involved scientifically and practically in a CBE program in their institutions. The CBE learning characteristics described in the ‘CBE-tree’ model as the...
these intuitions are shared by naive subjects and trained scientists; and they are applied with unfortunate consequences in the course of scientific inquiry [...] Apparently, acquaintance with formal logic and with probability theory does not extinguish erroneous intuitions. What, then, can be done...
The aim of doing grounded theory is not to justify, prove or affirm anything rather develop a living theory that can explain the phenomena well and able to be modified when it is needed [11]. Thus in this research we did an explorative study and explained the core phenomena well. More...
You would think that there would be far more stories like Peter Pan if Nodelman’s theory was correct but in fact immortal children are vastly outnumbered by the other kind. And doesn’t becoming an orphan in fact destroy childhood, a la Sara Crewe in the attic or Harry Potter under the...
The theory that lies behind memory processing focuses on the influence of the Autonomous Nervous System (ANS) our main survival mechanism which gets activated when we are faced with a threat. The ANS has an ON switch called the sympathetic response which leads to arousal and an OFF switch ...
theory of personal preservation under a condition of a deteriorating physical life—an irreversible illness. This bore heavily on the professional problem and explained why organ donations were not forthcoming and suggested avenues of potential resolutions to this problem. As I have said in “Doing ...
Originally published as Chapter 7 in Glaser (2003). The Grounded Theory Perspective II: Description’s remodeling of grounded theory methodology, Mill Valley, CA: Sociology Press, pp. 99-113. Barney G. Glaser, Ph.D., Hon. Ph.D.