Informed Grounded Theory

@article{Thornberg2012InformedGT,
  title={Informed Grounded Theory},
  author={Robert Thornberg},
  journal={Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research},
  year={2012},
  volume={56},
  pages={243 - 259},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:39486623}
}
  • Robert Thornberg
  • Published 18 May 2012
  • Education, Sociology
  • Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
There is a widespread idea that in grounded theory (GT) research, the researcher has to delay the literature review until the end of the analysis to avoid contamination – a dictum that might turn educational researchers away from GT. Nevertheless, in this article the author (a) problematizes the dictum of delaying a literature review in classic grounded theory, (b) presents arguments for using extant literature in the substantive field within a constructivist grounded theory, and (c) suggests… 
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