Continual Permutations of Misunderstanding: The Curious Incidents of the Grounded Theory Method

Bryant, Antony

doi:10.1177/1077800420920663

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“…The vitality of research lies in continuous innovation, and so does research methodology. 18 , 19 The research instrument of qualitative research is the researcher himself, and the data are collected and analyzed through multiple means (eg, interviews, textual analysis, etc.) to produce a holistic grasp of the research object.…”

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All Normal Occupations are Sunny and Joyful: Qualitative Analysis of Thai Ladyboys’ Occupational Wellbeing

Lyu¹,

Li²,

Xu³

et al. 2021

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Background As the modern social division of labour is becoming increasingly specified, various occupations have emerged. Ladyboy, as a special occupation, is receiving a surging amount of attention from society and academia. Ladyboy is an individual who is engaged in performing with female psychology but still retains male sexual characteristics, and this special characteristic has an impact on their occupational identity and occupational satisfaction. Methods This study investigated the current situation of ladyboys’ occupational wellbeing through interviews, and analyzed and coded the interview texts via Nvivo 11.0 guided by Grounded Theory. Results Through open coding, axial coding, and selective coding, the study found that ladyboys’ occupational wellbeing was generally high, and they were still full of love and confidence in their occupation even in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. Conclusion Concurrently, the study also found that for the profession of ladyboy, there are still many areas for improvement in society, such as the lack of supporting facilities, absence of supportive and protective policies, and unemployment livelihood security, etc. Feasible measures were then proposed for these specific problems.

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All Normal Occupations are Sunny and Joyful: Qualitative Analysis of Thai Ladyboys’ Occupational Wellbeing

Lyu¹,

Li²,

Xu³

et al. 2021

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“…Although it lay in obscurity for the first 20 years or so of its existence, since the 1990s GTM has increased in popularity to the point where it is considered by many to be the most popular qualitative research method amongst the social sciences -'fashionable', even [5,8]. Indeed, a search for the term "grounded theory" in CHI proceedings shows the number of papers citing the use of grounded theory in their analysis has approximately doubled in the last 10 years [1].…”

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“…The increased use of the methodology has not brought with it the same level of awareness of it's history, the important debates that surround it, and how to make use of it with rigour and accuracy. Subsequently, GTM is still, not without reason, treated with caution from many areas of academia and yet not taken seriously enough from others [8].…”

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“…GTM originates from the fields of sociology and health care that in recent years it has gained a degree of recognition and 'use' in the overlapping fields of HCI and Game Studies. However, 'Grounded Theory' as a label does not represent a single universally agreed on methodology, and the fragmented way it can be interpreted and deployed has caused confusion and controversy [8,10,21]. GTM is often treated as a single, agreed set of methodologies and principles -glossing over nearly 50 years of heated and rigorous academic debate in the process.…”

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More than a bit of coding: (un-)Grounded (non-)Theory in HCI

Cole

Gillies

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

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Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) is a powerful way to develop theories where there is little existing research using a flexible but rigorous empirically-based approach. Although it originates from the fields of social and health sciences, it is a field-agnostic methodology that can be used in any discipline. However, it tends to be misunderstood by researchers within HCI. This paper sets out to explain what GTM is, how it can be useful to HCI researchers, and examples of how it has been misapplied. There is an overview of the decades of methodological debate that surrounds GTM, why it's important to be aware of this debate, and how GTM differs from other, better understood, qualitative methodologies. It is hoped the reader is left with a greater understanding of GTM, and better able to judge the results of research which claims to use GTM, but often does not. CCS Concepts• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models.

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“…It functions in all variants of the method including classical (Glaser, 1978;Glaser & Holton, 2004), Corbin/Strauss (Corbin & Strauss, 2015;Strauss & Corbin, 1998), constructivist (Charmaz, 2014), situational analysis (Clarke et al, 2017), and critical realist (Hodd, 2018;Oliver, 2012) grounded theory. The researcher moves from purposive sampling (or other forms of non-probability sampling) to sampling for concepts that are emergent in the data (Bryant, 2020;Charmaz, 2014;Corbin & Strauss, 2015;Glaser, 1992). The conscious pursuit of key concepts in data generation signals that a researcher has begun to theoretically sample (Charmaz, 2014) and it is the relationships between these concepts that may ultimately constitute theory.…”

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Interviewing as a Vehicle for Theoretical Sampling in Grounded Theory

Foley

Timonen

Conlon

et al. 2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Interviewing is a frequently deployed data collection method in grounded theory research. Theoretical sampling is a core feature of the grounded theory method. Theoretical sampling is commonly understood as a means for sampling participants with a set of theoretical considerations in mind. However, theoretical sampling also occurs in the actual data generating process, for example through interviewing. Here, we illustrate how interviewing can be used as a vehicle for theoretical sampling. We discuss how to set up an interview study for it to be amenable to theoretical sampling. We show how interviewing and theoretical sampling align as the study proceeds and how interviewing in grounded theory can steer the course for theoretical sampling. We demonstrate how co-construction of data in grounded theory interviewing fuels theoretical sampling. Finally, we show that proceeding with questions for the purpose of theoretical sampling requires reflexivity and flexibility on the part of the researcher. We conclude that generating and analyzing data through the course of interviewing allows the researcher to probe into, expand on, and saturate key concepts and categories which collectively steer the inquiry and subsequent sampling. In the absence of theoretical sampling, it is not possible to grasp the basis for modifying interview questions or to decipher what or how questions should be asked, and for what purpose.

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Continual Permutations of Misunderstanding: The Curious Incidents of the Grounded Theory Method

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

All Normal Occupations are Sunny and Joyful: Qualitative Analysis of Thai Ladyboys’ Occupational Wellbeing

All Normal Occupations are Sunny and Joyful: Qualitative Analysis of Thai Ladyboys’ Occupational Wellbeing

More than a bit of coding: (un-)Grounded (non-)Theory in HCI

Interviewing as a Vehicle for Theoretical Sampling in Grounded Theory

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