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| Prologue | |
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| Introduction | |
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| In the Beginning | |
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| How to Initiate the Research | |
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| How to Select Data | |
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| How to Collect Data | |
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| How to Analyze Data | |
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| How to Conclude the Research | |
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| Subsequent Elaboration | |
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| From Manifesto to Marching Orders | |
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| The Evolution of Grounded Theory | |
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| Current Issues | |
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| Grounded Theory in Practice | |
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| Dimensional Analysis | |
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| Glaser's Critique | |
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| Summary | |
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| A Mixed Marriage | |
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| Dual-Purpose Categories | |
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| Generating Stable Concepts | |
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| Allowing Flexible Interpretations | |
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| Methodological Implications | |
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| Discovery | |
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| The Logic of Discovery | |
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| Theoretical Sampling and Saturation | |
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| Theorizing | |
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| Substantive and Formal Theory | |
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| Reduction and Focus | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Categories | |
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| Categories as Concepts | |
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| Categories and Properties | |
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| Categories as Elements in Theory | |
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| Formal and Substantive Relations | |
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| Concepts and Indicators | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Categorization | |
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| Approximation in Rule-Based Categorization | |
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| Prototypical Comparisons | |
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| Rules, Prototypes, Exemplars, and Boundaries | |
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| The Aims of Categorization | |
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| Category Judgments | |
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| Logical Connections | |
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| Idealized Cognitive Models | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Complexities of Categorization | |
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| The Complexities of Motherhood | |
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| Radial Structures | |
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| Basic-Level Categories | |
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| Complex Categories | |
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| Implications for Grounded Theory | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Coding | |
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| Coding in Grounded Theory | |
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| Open, Axiel, and Selective Coding | |
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| Holistic Understanding | |
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| Experience and Prior Knowledge | |
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| Impressions, Intuitions, and Direct Understandings | |
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| Category Strings | |
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| Axiel Coding | |
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| Theoretical Codes | |
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| Core Categories | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Concluding | |
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| Theoretical Saturation | |
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| Ambiguities in Coding | |
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| Factual Coding and Referential Coding | |
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| Heuristic and Representational Functions | |
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| Reduction and Complication | |
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| Conflicting Claims | |
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| Coding for Categorizing | |
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| Indexing | |
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| Confidence in Categories | |
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| Coding and Counting | |
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| Patterns | |
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| Numbers and Patterns | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Process and Causality | |
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| The Conditional Matrix and Tracing Conditional Paths | |
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| Glaser's Critique | |
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| Contextual, Causal, and Intervening Conditions | |
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| Distinguishing Conditions | |
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| Causal Conditions | |
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| Temporal Sequence | |
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| Grounded Theory and Analytic Induction | |
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| The Method of Agreement | |
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| The Method of Difference | |
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| Intelligibility | |
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| Causal Powers | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Structures and Agency | |
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| Structure in Grounded Theory | |
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| Stages | |
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| Temporal Sequence | |
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| Structures and Agency | |
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| Generative Mechanisms | |
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| Structural Properties | |
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| Cultural Properties | |
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| Agency | |
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| Consequences and Structural Elaboration | |
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| Vested Interests and Opportunity Costs | |
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| Situational Logics | |
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| End-Points | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Making Fit Theory | |
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| Theorizing in Grounded Theory | |
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| Distinctions through Space and Time | |
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| Theorizing Conjunctures and Generalities | |
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| Intensive and Extensive Theorizing | |
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| Grounded Theory as a Mixed Method | |
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| Other Modes of Theorizing | |
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| A Rapprochement | |
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| Criticisms of the Nomothetic Approach | |
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| Criticisms of the Idiographic Approach | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Making Theory Fit | |
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| The Aims of Theorizing | |
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| Problems with Prediction | |
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| Differentiating Possibilities | |
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| Utility and Validity | |
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| The Disciplined Imagination | |
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| Grounding Theory Conceptually | |
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| Grounding Theory Empirically | |
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| Grounding Grounded Theory | |
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| Generation and Validation | |
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| Starting from Scratch | |
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| Categories, Properties, and Dimensions | |
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| Concepts and Indicators | |
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| Categorization Reconsidered | |
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| Coding | |
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| Open Coding | |
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| Axiel Coding and Theoretical Codes | |
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| Selective Coding | |
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| Process | |
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| Causality | |
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| Structure and Agency | |
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| Theorizing | |
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| Validation | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Subject Index | |