Constructivist Grounded Theory?
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I refer to and use as scholarly inspiration Charmaz's excellent article on constructivist grounded theory as a tool of getting to the fundamental issues on why grounded theory is not constructivist. I show that constructivist data, if it exists at all, is a very, very small part of the data that grounded theory uses.
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This article is a reprint of Glaser, B. G. (2002, September). Constructivist Grounded Theory? Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum : Qualitative Social Research [ On-line Journal] , 3(3). Available at: http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.html