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q. 8 Grounded Theory (b) Indicate some disagreement within GT (The role of…
q. 8 Grounded Theory
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a) What lies in the indication of the direction that the development of theory needs to be "grounded"?
- Contextualized theory of social processes emerges from data, that is truly grounded in data
- Researcher tries not to Influence the process
Grounded/Top-down
Grounded:
- bottom-up, rooted in, shaped by, tailored to data
Top-down:
- imposition of pre-existing theory and units of meaning upon the data
- against hypotheses-testing of pre-existing theory to new data
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