This book is about staying open to the emergent when doing grounded theory (GT).
The full power of grounded theory comes with staying open to the emergent and to earned
relevance throughout the whole GT methodology process, but especially so with regard to
integrating a GT with emergent theoretical codes (TC). Researchers seem to have the most
trouble at this stage of generating GT – sorting memos and writing up the theory with
emergent TCs. This book troubleshoots this problem by dealing with many facets of
theoretical coding. It discusses TC emergence, new TCs, several sources of forcing TCs ,
the power of TCs, and grand TCs based on theoretical perspectives. The goal of these
discussions is to help the researcher in staying open to the non-forced, non-preconceived
discovery of emergent TCs.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 -Staying Open
Chapter 2 -New Theoretical Codes
Chapter 3 -The Emergence of Theoretical
Codes
Chapter 4 -The Emergence of Theoretical
Codes: Issues
Chapter 5 -No Emergent Theoretical Codes
Chapter 6 -The Power of Theoretical
Coding
Chapter 7 -Forcing Theoretical Codes
Chapter 8 -“Pet”
Theoretical Codes
Chapter 9 -Theoretical Perspectives,
Disciplines and Theoretical Codes
Chapter 10- The Impact of Symbolic Interaction
on Grounded Theory