PSY-850 Lecture 5

Objectives:

Appraise the suitability of grounded theory and narrative inquiry.

Contrast data collection, triangulation, and analysis methods employed in grounded theory and narrative inquiry.

Approaches to Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory and Narrative Inquiry

Introduction

Grounded theory is an overarching method not limited to qualitative variables. Its purpose is to develop new theory about the topic of study that is deeply grounded in facts of the setting studied. Those facts are taken directly from writings, interviews, participant-observation, artifacts, and the daily activities of members in the setting studied. Grounded theory's cofounders are Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (1967).

Narrative inquiry has a narrower scope because it concerns strictly...