Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research

If you are a social science student doing research and would like to do something different (from theory verification) this is the book for you. Grounded Theory as explained by Glaser and Strauss is useable, even to the novice. Soon you too will be on your way to theory development!

This is an excellent reference for those doing research that uses grounded theory to build theories.

This book is a must for anyone looking to write theory, or for researchers looking to do qualitative analysis.

Glaser and Strauss's book is easy to read and offers a qualitative theory building strategy that is well structured. They provide a concise overview of the history of grounded theory and its uses. Moreover, they offer readers solid guidance on comparative qualitative studies and defense of the same in the world of research.

One should not be dissuaded from this book by its publication date. The material is as relevant now the day it was published, making it an essential classic now for over 30 years. Readers of this book will be introduced into an entirely new paradigm for doing rigorous research based on a qualitative methodology. Particularly if you are only familiar with the traditional scientific method and experimentalism, this book open up a whole new world. Glaser & Strauss show how theory emerges from the data, as an ever improving understanding of the signifiance of what is discovered. This book really presents a robust way for a researcher in any field, but particularly in the human sciences, to approach day to day research. It is the living method of creativity and innovation, presenting a system for understanding one's discoveries and framing them to producing meaningful knowledge. Everyone is approaching life this way, living out experiences and drawing conclusions from them, including the most mainstream of scientists. But Glaser and Strauss show how that process can be transformed from a willy-nilly gut feel into something that more reliably produces defensible knowledge claims and builds a substantive theoretical network.