Story vs. Concept A Few Notes on a Challenge Journalists and Grounded Theorists Share
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In grounded theory, concerns about the tension between description (storytelling) versus theorizing mirrors the tensions between description and analysis in journalism. In this essay, the author, a former journalist, discusses some of the shared history between journalism and qualitative research and suggests how a journalistic organizing practice – “the nutgraph”—can raise the conceptualization of even some theoretical work.
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