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• Publisher’s Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Foreword
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• 1 An Invitation to Grounded Theory
• Emergence of Grounded Theory
• Developments in Grounded Theory
• Constructing Grounded Theory
• This Book at a Glance
• 2 Gathering Rich Data
• Thinking About Methods
• Grounded Theory in Ethnography
• Documents as Data
• Concluding Thoughts
• 3 Crafting and Conducting Intensive Interviews
• Thinking About Intensive Interviewing
• Preparing for the Interview
• Conducting the Interview
• Problems, Prospects, and Strengths of Interviewing
• Concluding Thoughts
• 4 Interviewing in Grounded Theory Studies
• Why Intensive Interviewing Fits Grounded Theory
• Pursuing Theory
• Constructivist Interviewing
• Interviewing in Theoretical Sampling
• How Many Interviews?
• Concluding Thoughts
• 5 The Logic of Grounded Theory Coding Practices and Initial Coding
• The Logic of Grounded Theory Coding
• Initial Coding
• Initial Coding Practices
• Transforming Data into Codes
• Concluding Thoughts
• 6 Focused Coding and Beyond
• Focused Coding in Practice
• Coding as an Emergent Process
• Axial Coding
• Theoretical Coding: Application or Emergence?
• Wrestling with Preconceptions
• Strategies for Revealing Preconceptions
• Concluding Thoughts
• 7 Memo-writing
• Methods of Memo-writing
• Adopting Writers’ Strategies: Prewriting Exercises
• Using Memos to Raise Focused Codes to Conceptual Categories
• Concluding Thoughts
• 8 Theoretical Sampling, Saturation, and Sorting
• Considering Theoretical Sampling
• Saturating Theoretical Categories
• Theoretical Sorting, Diagramming, and Integrating
• Concluding Thoughts
• 9 Reconstructing Theorizing in Grounded Theory Studies
• What Is Theory?
• Objectivist and Constructivist Grounded Theory
• Theorizing in Grounded Theory
• Scrutinizing Grounded Theories
• Concluding Thoughts
• 10 Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory
• The Symbolic Interactionist Tradition
• The Emergence of Symbolic Interactionism
• Symbolic Interactionism as a Theoretical Perspective
• The Dramaturgical Approach
• Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory as a Theory–Methods Package
• Symbolic Interactionism in Grounded Theory Studies
• Concluding Thoughts
• 11 Writing the Draft
• Regarding Writing
• Revising Early Drafts
• Returning to the Library: Literature Reviews and Theoretical Frameworks
• Writing the Theoretical Framework
• Rendering Through Writing
• Concluding Thoughts
• 12 Reflecting on the Research Process
• The Core of Grounded Theory: Contested Versions and Revisions
• What Defines a Grounded Theory?
• Grounded Theory and Recent Methodological Developments
• Grounded Theory in Global Perspective
• Evaluating Grounded Theory
• Criteria for Grounded Theory Studies
• Grounded Theory of the Past, Present, and Future
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index