The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory

'Tony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz are the perfect editors for this excellent and forward looking Handbook which is surely destined to be a classic'

PART ONE: ORIGINS AND HISTORYGrounded Theory in Historical Perspective: An Epistemological Account - Antony Bryant & Kathy CharmazDiscovery of Grounded Theory in Practice: The Legacy of Multiple Mentors - Eleanor Krassner CovanLiving Grounded Theory: Cognitive and Emotional Forms of Pragmatism - Susan Leigh StarPART TWO: GROUNDED THEORY METHOD AND FORMAL GROUNDED THEORYDoing Formal Theory - Barney G GlaserOn Solid Ground: Essential Properties for Growing Grounded Theory - Phyllis Noerager SternFrom the Sublime to the Meticulous: The Continuing Evolution of Grounded Formal Theory - Margaret H KearneyOrthodoxy versus Power: The Defining Traits of Grounded Theory - Jane HoodPART THREE: GROUNDED THEORY IN PRACTICEGrounding Categories - Ian DeyDevelopment of Categories: Different Approaches in Grounded Theory - Udo KelleAbduction: The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory - Jo ReichertzSampling in Grounded Theory - Janice MorseAsking Questions of the Data: Memo Writing in the Grounded Theory Tradition - Lora LempertThe Coding Process and Its Challenges - Judith HoltonPART FOUR: PRACTICALITIESMaking Teams work in Conducting Grounded Theory - Carolyn WienerTeaching Grounded Theory - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-BiberThe Evolving Nature of Grounded Theory Method: The Case of the Information Systems Discipline - Cathy UrquhartPART FIVE: GROUNDED THEORY IN THE RESEARCH METHODS CONTEXTGrounded Theory Using Situational Analysis - Adele E Clarke and Carrie FrieseWhat Can Grounded Theorists and Action Researchers Learn From Each Other? - Bob DickFeminist Qualitative Research and Grounded Theory: Complexities, Criticisms, and Opportunities - Virginia L OlesenAccommodating Critical Theory - Barry GibsonGrounded Theory and the Politics of Interpretation - Norman K DenzinGrounded Theory & Racail/ Ethnic Diversity - Denise O'Neil Green, John W. Creswell, Ronald J. Shope, Vicki L. Plano ClarkAdvancing Ethnographic Research Through Grounded Theory Practice - Stefan Timmermans and Iddo TavoryPART SIX: GROUNDED THEORY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCESGrounded Theory and Reflexivity - Katja Mruck and Guenter MeyMediating Structure and Interaction in Grounded Theory - Bruno HildenbrandRational Control and Irrational Free-play: Dual-thinking Modes as Necessary Tension in Grounded Theorizing - Karen LockeResearch as Pragmatic Problem-solving: The Pragmatist Roots of Empirically-grounded Theorizing - Joerg Struebing