Juliet Corbin

Basics of qualitative research : grounded theory procedures and techniques

Introduction Getting Started Theoretical Sensitivity The Uses of Literature Open Coding Techniques for Enhancing Theoretical Sensitivity Axial Coding Selective Coding Process The Conditional Matrix Theoretical Sampling Memos and Diagrams Writing Theses and Monographs, and Giving Talks about Your Research Criteria for Judging a Grounded Theory Study

Basics of qualitative research

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Grounded Theory Research: Procedures, Canons and Evaluative Criteria

Using grounded theory as an example, this paper examines three methodological questions that are generally applicable to all qualitative methods. How should the usual scientific canons be reinterpreted for qualitative research? How should researchers report the procedures and canons used in their research? What evaluative criteria should be used in judging the research products? We propose that the criteria should be adapted to fit the procedures of the method. We demonstrate how this can be done for grounded theory and suggest criteria for evaluating studies following this approach. We argue that other qualitative researchers might be similarly specific about their procedures and evaluative criteria.

Managing chronic illness at home: Three lines of work

Problems of managing chronic illness at home are addressed in terms of the concept of “work:” what types and subtypes of work, entailing what tasks, who does them, how, where, the consequences, the problems involved. Three types of work and consequences of their interplay are discussed: illness work, everyday life work, and biographical work. Theoretical concerns of the sociology of work are addressed as well as the substantive issues of managing chronic illness.

Women's perceptions and management of a pregnancy complicated by chronic illness

This exploratory longitudinal study addresses how a group of chronically ill pregnant women managed the medical risk factors associated with their pregnancies through a process termed protective governing. Protective governing was carried out through the strategies of assessing, balancing, and controlling. The respondents were 20 women with chronic illnesses of varying types. Data were gathered by means of four in‐depth interviews, two prior to delivery and two during the postpartum period, and by observations during prenatal visits, in the hospital, and at home. The data were analyzed using the grounded theory method.

Analytic Ordering for Theoretical Purposes

This article discusses why and how to make explicit the linkages between interaction and conditions affecting both the interaction and its consequences. The discussion aims at (a) extending the range of conditions/conseguences considered by researchers; (b) forcing self-consciousness in their analytic choices among these; (c) helping to trace the often-intricate connections among them, thus (d) facilitating their ordering into explanatory hypotheses and their testing; (e) ensuring, or raising the probability, that explanations encompass variation; and (f) ultimately enabling presentation of a more orderly, com plete, and persuasive explanatory account. To this end, an updated version of our conditional matrix and what are now termed connectivity paths are outlined and illustrated.