Notes on the Nature and Development of General Theories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7539719 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anselm Strau (corresponding author), Anselm Strauss (University of California, San Francisco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-18 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/107780049500100102 |
| OpenAlex | W2137912300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 11 |
There is a remarkable absence of discussion in sociology about the nature of (grounded) theories, how to generate them, and go about verifying them (witness the recent Handbook of Qualitative Research). Most theories are substantive. Differences among types of theories along various dimensions are discussed. A stand is taken against the usual oversimplified hierarchization of them by "levels," using an analysis of how theories appear in Science articles. For social scientists, this use constitutes models to be learned from, but not slavishly followed. Extended illustration is given from the author's research on the control of information, including guarding secrets, giving misleading information, engaging in suspicion searches, and the like. From this research, several innovative procedures are discussed relative to developing, checking, and linking general theories, both with each other and with substantive theories
Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Witness · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Philosophy
Applied Interpretive Approaches
Öffentliche Kommunikation und Rechtsextremismus
Designing a Qualitative Study
Toward a Theory of Arts Entrepreneurship
Closeness to Data
Rekonstruktive Ansätze in den Internationalen Beziehungen und der Weltpolitikforschung
Rekonstruktionslogische Forschungsansätze
Sex/gender and race/ethnicity in the legacy of Anselm Strauss
Selecting, understanding and applying theory as a neophyte researcher
Normativität und Rekonstruktion
Research issues and an interactionist theory of action
In Forms That Are Familiar and Yet-to-Be Invented
Supervisory conversations on rigour and interpretive research
In the trenches
Beyond This Point There Be Dragons
And You're Telling Me Not to Stress?” a Grounded Theory Study of Postpartum Depression Symptoms among Low-Income Mothers
La démarche comparative de Glaser et Strauss (1967)
Ethnographies of the imagined, the imaginary and the critically real
In Memoriam
Situational Analyses
"And You're Telling Me Not to Stress?" a Grounded Theory Study of Postpartum Depression Symptoms Among Low-Income Mothers
Situationsanalyse und abduktive Typenbildung als erkenntnisvertiefende Elemente im Forschungsprozess einer Grounded Theory – dargestellt an einer Untersuchung zum Handeln der Akteure in der sozialen Welt Hochschulweiterbildung
All the News that's Fat to Print
Race and the NFL Draft
Theorizing in Qualitative Research
Analytic Ordering for Theoretical Purposes
The Psychoanalytic Interview as Qualitative Research
Gofqi and the Phoenix of Qualitative Inquiry
Re-Placing Theory in Ethnography
Senseless Messaging
Two cases of ethnography
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2024 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |