An Analysis of the Grounded Theory Method and the Concept of Culture

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ID5455536
AuthorsDonelle M Barnes (0000-0002-7329-1254, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume6
Issue3
Pages429-441
Publication date1996-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/104973239600600309
OpenAlexW1967336079
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited25

Researchers increasingly include multicultural respondents in qualitative research studies. The grounded theory method, a currently popular qualitative methodology, seeks to interpret data for theory development. However, analysis of respondents from a culture(s) significantly different from the researcher's culture requires special attention to methodological issues. Requirements for conducting a grounded theory analysis with respondents from varying cultural orientations include personal or professional experience in the respondent's culture, professional literature of the respondent's culture around the phenomenon of interest, data analysis conducted in the language of the respondents, and a constant comparison of emerging concepts from the cultural perspective of the respondents. Only by attending to the cultures of the respondents and of the researchers can the social sciences create sufficiently rich inductively derived grounded theory

Culture theory · Epistemology · Grounded theory · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Phenomenon · Political science · Qualitative research · Respondent · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications · Social Psychology

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