From the Editor

Abstract

This issue of the Review combines a strong focus on classic grounded theory methodology with our continued practice of featuring the work of novice grounded theorists. We begin the issue with a classic paper from Discovery, the seminal work of Glaser and Strauss (1967). Theoretical Elaboration of Quantitative Data, authored by Dr. Glaser, has been largely ignored by those who prefer to assign grounded theory to the qualitative paradigm. This paper, however, truly sets GT apart as a general methodology and not solely the purview of qualitative researchers. A careful reading may help to diffuse the persistent rhetorical wrestle that has developed through the fervent efforts of qualitative researchers to shape GT to the malleable boundaries and endlessly flexible designs that seem to define the qualitative research paradigm. As such, the QDA remodellers may have to rethink their conception of GT as simply a menu of method bits to be selected and combined as desired to produce, at best, conceptual description.