The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory

PART ONE: ORIGINS AND HISTORY
GT in Historical Perspective - Antony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz
An Epistemological Account
Discovery of GT in Practice - Eleanor Krassner Covan
Legacy of Multiple Mentors
Living GT - Susan Leigh Star
Cognitive amd Emotional Forms of Pragmatism
PART TWO: GTM AND FORMAL GT
Doing Formal Theory - Barney Glaser
Essential Properties for Growing GT - Phyllis Stern
Evolution of Formal GT - Margaret Kearney
Orthodoxy versus Power - Jane Hood
PART THREE: GT IN PRACTICE
Grounding Categories - Ian Dey
Development of Categories - Udo Kelle
Abduction - Jo Reichertz
Sampling in GT - Janice Morse
Memo-Writing in GT - Lora Lempert
Coding - Judith Holton
PART FOUR: PRACTICALITIES
Making Teams Work in Conducting GT - Carolyn Wiener
Teaching GT - Sharlene Hesse-Biber
GT as a Tool for IS Research - Cathy Urquhart
PART FIVE: GT IN THE RESEACRH METHODS CONTEXT
GT and Situational Analysis - Adele Clarke and Carrie Friese
GT and Action Research - Bob Dick
Integrating GT and Feminist Methods - Virginia Olesen
Accommodating Critical Theory - Barry Gibson
GT and the Politics of Interpretation - Norman Denzin
GT and Diversity - Denise O'Neil Green et al
Ethnography - Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory
PART SIX: GT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
GT and Reflexivity - Katja Mruck and Guenter Mey
Mediating Structure and Interaction - Bruno Hildenbrand
Tensions in Using GT - Karen Locke
GT and Pragmatism - Joerg Struebing

Kathy Charmaz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. In the latter position, she leads seminars for faculty to help them complete their research and scholarly writing. She has written, co-authored, or co-edited fourteen books including Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time, which won awards from the Pacific Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. The first edition of Constructing Grounded Theory received a Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. It has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Portuguese and two more translations are underway. A co-edited four-volume set, Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, with senior editor, Adele Clarke, just came out as part of the Sage Benchmarks in Social Research series. Another co-edited volume with Antony Bryant, senior editor, The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory, appeared in 2007. Professor Charmaz is a co-author of two multi-authored methodology books, Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis: Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive Inquiry, which Guilford published in 2011, and Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation, a 2009 publication with Left Coast Press. She has also published articles and chapters on the experience of chronic illness, the social psychology of suffering, writing for publication as well as numerous papers on

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 fingertips Juliet CorbinSan José State University



In my experience of supervising and examining masters and doctoral

students in the social sciences over three decades, a very large proportion

of them use or claim to use grounded theory in some form or other. It

appears to be the stock method of social science research and accepted

without question by most university teachers and authorities (let alone

students) 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 of

material upon which to consider some fundamental issues...There is a very

useful '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 Holt Qualitative Research