Is there such a thing as formal grounded theory? Yes, there is in spite of the fact that it has received scant attention since we first mentioned it in 1967. Thsi book defines its, developes its nature and uses and sets forth a method for generating formal grounded theory.
In this book I am merely trying to put forth and encourage formal
grounded theory into its rightful; place in the world of
social-psychological research. It neatly fits into the "golden age of
rigorous quaalitative analysis". It shows the reader that formal
grounded theory is not the development of a theoretical codes, no grand
speculative theory. it is purely and simply the conceptual extension of
the general implications of a core category.