i have had a few of my colleagues who mainly work in quant bring articles
that they have had to review to me - these articles all claimed either to be
GT, hermeneutic or phenomenological and on examination were anything but
that!
Will try and track em down for you
Sarah Delaney
Research Officer
Health Services Research Centre
Department of Psychology
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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> From: Joerg Struebing
> Reply To: qual-software
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:08 pm
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> Subject: Looking for 'false' GT-studies
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Again and again I've come across qualitative studies that did some kind of
> qualitative research and where the authors, lacking a precise label for
> what they did, called it simply "grounded theory-based" or the like. Not
> necessarily bad studies (though some of them definitely were), they were
> obviously not grounded theory based. For instance they didn't integrate
> data collection, analysis and theory building activities or they didn't do
> the sampling on grounds of the developed (I wouldn't like to say
> 'emerging') theory-in-the-making or they didn't ask generative questions
> and so forth
> Unfortunately, however, now that I've been asked to name some of these
> studies (in order to make my argument) I've found that I didn't keep track
> of this phenomenon over time and there is only a big blank in my mental
> data base where a list of reference should be.
>
> So my question is: If you know about (published) studies (be they good or
> bad) that used the label grounded theory without having practiced GT
> research style I would love to get the references of those studies.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers
>
> Joerg
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