The History of Grounded Theory based on Quantitative Methodology
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The idea for a grounded theory methodology came from the 1950's when Lazarsfeld2 started to do methodology of quantitative studies. The methodology he created was not that of the initial procedures applied to quantitative studies but rather trying to figure out the procedures that had been used in "good" quantitative studies. The procedures emerged. As he figured them out, other researchers studied them and started to use them and research methodology was born. This is, of course, how Anselm and I developed GT methodology. We figured out the procedures we had used in the dying study research and in writing it up in Awareness of Dying (1965) and Time for Dying (1967). Other researchers wanted this GT methodology: they wanted to know how we "did it".
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