  Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself and by others. Each person sees himself mirrored in the judgments of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon his anticipations of judgments. In Mirrors and Masks, Anselm Strauss uses the notion of identity to organize materials and thoughts about certain aspects of problems traditionally intriguing to social psychologists.   The problems Strauss considers to be intriguing traditionally are those encountered when studying group membership, motivation, personality development, and social interaction. The topics covered include: the basic importance of language for human action and identity; the perpetual indeterminacy of identities in constantly changing social contexts; the symbolic and developmental character of human interaction; the theme of identity as it affects adult behaviqr; relations between generations and their role in personality development; and the symbolic character of membership in groups.   By focusing on symbolic behavior with an emphasis on social organization, Strauss presents a fruitful, systematic perspective from which to view traditional problems of social psychology. He opens up new areas of thought and associates matters that are not ordinarily considered to be related. Strauss believes that psychiatrists* and psychologists underestimate immensely the influence of social organization upon individual behavior and individual structure, and that sociologists, whose major concern is with social organization, should employ some kind of social psychology in their research. Mirrors and Masks shows that the fusion of theoretical approaches benefits the analyses of many scholars. This fascinating work should be read by sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

Mirrors and Masks

Politics & Social Sciences

Strauss, Anselm L.

Women's Studies

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Subtitled: Advances in the Methodology of Grounded Theory.

Theoretical Sensitivity

Glaser, Barney G.

Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.

Liquid Crystals: 5518 (Proceedings of Spie)

Science & Math

Khoo, Iam-Choon

Physics

Dr. Glaser published this book as a clear and cogent correction of the many misleading ideas in Basics of Qualitative Research, by Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin (1990) Sage Publications. Its corrected view of the underlying logic of grounded theory will enable researchers to get on with their research and keep up their productivity.

Basics of Grounded Theory Analysis: Emergence Vs. Forcing

Sociology

Book by Glaser, Barney G., Crabtree, David J.

Second Deeds of Trust: How to Make Money Safely

Business & Money

Crabtree, David J.

Economics

In writing Basics of Grounded theory Analysis (Sociology Press, 1992), it became obvious to me that what was needed by the myriad of Grounded Theory readers and users throughout die world was a book of examples of grounded theory papers and chapters. These researchers needed models for how the various facets of grounded theory look when brought together into an integrated piece. This applies to both analysis of qualitative and particularly quantitative data. This Reader is designed to achieve this purpose. The general purpose of the reader is exampling, not content and coverage. Any set of papers achieves this goal. I trust the reader will enjoy the content, but it is the theoretical construction of these papers that should by studied.

Examples of Grounded Theory: A Reader

Social Sciences

This reader on grounded theory methodology continues corrections begun in Basics of Grounded Theory Analysis. It shows three main correctives. 1) One can use scholarship in advancing grounded theory methodology. 2) Articles from previous grounded theory books that were neglected by Strauss and Corbin and are seldom referred to in grounded theory are republished to revitalize traditional grounded theory and increase the researcher's armentorium of tools of research. 3) It looks at the generation of formal theory by use of grounded theory methodology.

More Grounded Theory Methodology: A reader

This book is designed to get people "doing grounded theory" and "doing it" to the best of their ability. Toward achieving this goal, Dr. Glaser discusses the issues that emerged as he travelled to many parts of the world giving lectures, seminars and workshops on doing grounded theory. It is a practical, "how to" guide to skill development in grounded theory.

Doing Grounded Theory: Issues & Discussion

History & Philosophy

The purpose of QGT, like substantive GT generated from qualitative data, is to generate conceptual theory. QGT is NOT generated to test or correct theory. There is nothing negative to say about testing hypotheses but it is not the purpose of QGT. volume into the future. QGT is just another approach to quantitative data analysis that can add to, transcend and modify extant theory, as qualitative GT does. This book is based on the successive stages of building up to the generated QGT. I discuss first the relation of quantitative to qualitative data, then the most frequent sources data for QGT - secondary analysis. Then I turn to crude index formation to indicate a core variable and subcore concepts and their properties. Then I turn to how one discovers conceptual hypotheses with conceptual indexes and single item indices by theoretical elaboration analysis. The result is a conceptual multivariate QGT

Doing Quantitative Grounded Theory

This book is about staying open to the emergent when doing grounded theory (GT). The full power of grounded theory comes with staying open to the emergent and to earned relevance throughout the whole GT methodology process, but especially so with regard to integrating a GT with emergent theoretical codes (TC). Researchers seem to have the most trouble at this stage of generating GT - sorting memos and writing up the theory with emergent TCs. This book troubleshoots this problem by dealing with many facets of theoretical coding. It discusses TC emergence, new TCs, several sources of forcing TCs , the power of TCs, and grand TCs based on theoretical perspectives. The goal of these discussions is to help the researcher in staying open to the non-forced, non-preconceived discovery of emergent TCs.

The Grounded Theory Perspective III: Theoretical Coding

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