This essay is a contribution to the question whether grounded theory methodology (in the variant of STRAUSS & CORBIN) contains an abductive research logic as developed in the work of Charles Sanders PEIRCE. After going through the works of STRAUSS and CORBIN I answer the question with a resounding yes. But it does not only contain the logic of abductive reasoning but also that of qualitative induction. "We decided to write a book about methods in the mid-1960s. We felt that changes were in the air and wanted to write for the new generation-the people over 30 were already too bound by convention. Barney was more positive about the project. I was more skeptical because I was older. The title indicates what was important to us The Discovery of Grounded Theory (1967): unlike the usual method books which are concerned with verification, we were more interested in the discovery of theory 'out of the data'. Grounded Theory is not a theory but a methodology to discover theories dormant in the data" (LEGEWIE & SCHERVIER-LEGEWIE, 2004

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RESUMEN:Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar la sociología hermenéutica del conocimiento fuera de la investigación social cualitativa convencional: para delinear sus principios, enfoques y necesidades y sugerir posibles áreas de aplicación. PALABRAS CLAVE:Hermenéutica, sociología del conocimiento, métodos cualitativos, lógica de la investigación, abducción, Conocimiento. ABSTRACT:This article aims to present hermeneutic sociology of knowledge outside of conventional qualitative social research, so as to outline its principles, approaches and requirements and suggest possible areas of application. KEYWORDS: LA COMPRENSIÓN DE LO SOCIAL / UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIALThe world is a world of meaning (Mead, 1983: 347)1 DEFINITION AND AIMHermeneutic sociology of knowledge is an evolving, complex theoretical, methodological and operational concept which essentially has its foundations in the work of Hans-Georg Soeffner and has since been developed and differentiated by various researchers including Thomas Eberle, Ronald Hitzler, Anne Honer, Hubert Knoblauch, Michaela Pfadenhauer, Jür-gen Raab, Jo Reichertz, Bernt Schnettler and Norbert Schröer. It sets out to (re)construct the social meaning of every form of interaction (linguistic and non-linguistic) and all types of interaction products (art, religion, entertainment, etc.). Initially, the name 'sociological hermeneutics' was often used to refer to this method. Hermeneutic sociology of knowledge has emerged in this form partly out of the criticism of the 'metaphysics of structures' in the objective hermeneutics of Oevermann (cf. Reichertz, 1988), and partly through the debate on the socio-phenomenological research tradition (Schütz, 1972).

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