The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory

Antony Bryant is currently Professor of Informatics at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. He has written and taught extensively on research methods, with a particular interest in qualitative research methods, and the Grounded Theory Method in particular.  His book Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing: Pragmatism in Research Practice was recently published by Oxford University Press (2017).  He is Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2007) and The Sage Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory – both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz (SAGE, 2019). He has supervised over 50 doctoral students, and examined many others, in topics including formal specification of software systems, development of quality and maturity frameworks, new forms of business modelling, and various aspects of e-government and e-democracy.He is currently working with Professor Frank Land, who worked on the first commercial computer (LEO 1951), and was also the first UK Professor of Information Systems, on a series of ‘conversations’ planned for publication that will cover issues in the development and impact of computer technology since the 1950s.Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and the former director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She joined the first cohort of doctoral students at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied with Anselm Strauss. She wrote in the areas of social psychology, medical sociology, qualitative methods, and grounded theory, and over her career wrote, coauthored, or coedited 14 books, including two award-winning works: Good Days, Bad Days; The Self in Illness and Time, and Constructing Grounded Theory. She received the George Herbert Mead award for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, the Leo G. Reeder award for distinguished contributions from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Professor Charmaz also gave workshops on qualitative methods, grounded theory, symbolic interactionism, and scholarly writing around the globe.

• PART ONE: ORIGINS AND HISTORYGT in Historical Perspective - Antony Bryant and Kathy CharmazAn Epistemological AccountDiscovery of GT in Practice - Eleanor Krassner CovanLegacy of Multiple MentorsLiving GT - Susan Leigh StarCognitive amd Emotional Forms of PragmatismPART TWO: GTM AND FORMAL GTDoing Formal Theory - Barney GlaserEssential Properties for Growing GT - Phyllis SternEvolution of Formal GT - Margaret KearneyOrthodoxy versus Power - Jane HoodPART THREE: GT IN PRACTICEGrounding Categories - Ian DeyDevelopment of Categories - Udo KelleAbduction - Jo ReichertzSampling in GT - Janice MorseMemo-Writing in GT - Lora LempertCoding - Judith HoltonPART FOUR: PRACTICALITIESMaking Teams Work in Conducting GT - Carolyn WienerTeaching GT - Sharlene Hesse-BiberGT as a Tool for IS Research - Cathy UrquhartPART FIVE: GT IN THE RESEACRH METHODS CONTEXTGT and Situational Analysis - Adele Clarke and Carrie FrieseGT and Action Research - Bob DickIntegrating GT and Feminist Methods - Virginia OlesenAccommodating Critical Theory - Barry GibsonGT and the Politics of Interpretation - Norman DenzinGT and Diversity - Denise O′Neil Green et alEthnography - Stefan Timmermans and Iddo TavoryPART SIX: GT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCESGT and Reflexivity - Katja Mruck and Guenter MeyMediating Structure and Interaction - Bruno HildenbrandTensions in Using GT - Karen LockeGT and Pragmatism - Joerg Struebing

Tony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz are the perfect editors for this excellent and forward looking Handbook which is surely destined to be a classicDavid SilvermanProfessor Emeritus, Goldsmiths College For anyone interested in grounded theory this is a must have book. No longer will students have to search the library or internet to find authoritative voices on a variety of topics. It’s all right there at their fingertipsJuliet CorbinSan José State University In my experience of supervising and examining masters and doctoralstudents in the social sciences over three decades, a very large proportionof them use or claim to use grounded theory in some form or other. Itappears to be the stock method of social science research and acceptedwithout question by most university teachers and authorities (let alonestudents) in this field....This Handbook, at over 600 pages long, with 27 chapters (in addition to the chapter length Introduction) by more than 30 contributors, offers a vast amount ofmaterial upon which to consider some fundamental issues...There is a veryuseful ‘Discursive Glossary of Terms’ and (what a gem!) a thorough and detailed indexJohn PrattHigher Education Review The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory constitutes a fascinating col-lection, and the containment of each chapter makes it very amenable to ‘occasional dips’...as a cornucopia of ideas in to the world of grounded theory (which is, apparently, the most frequently-cited analytical approach in qualitative research publications), this volume is unsurpassedAmanda HoltQualitative Research