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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 'Tony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz are the perfect editors for this excellent and forward looking Handbook which is surely destined to be a classic' - David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths CollegeThe Handbook provides an accessible collection of accounts of use of Grounded Theory by many of the foremost practitioners. As such it will provide a valuable resource for students, academics and all manner of researchers as they consider the methodological issues in their work.Grounded Theory is by far the most widely used research method across a range of disciplines and subject areas, including social sciences, nursing and healthcare, medical sociology, information systems, psychology, and anthropology. This book gives a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of Grounded Theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: ORIGINS AND HISTORY Grounded Theory in Historical Perspective: An Epistemological Account - Antony Bryant & Kathy Charmaz Discovery of Grounded Theory in Practice: The Legacy of Multiple Mentors - Eleanor Krassner Covan Living Grounded Theory: Cognitive and Emotional Forms of Pragmatism - Susan Leigh Star PART TWO: GROUNDED THEORY METHOD AND FORMAL GROUNDED THEORY Doing Formal Theory - Barney G Glaser On Solid Ground: Essentia...
