In my literature review so far I have not been able to find extended references to the application of grounded theory in the study of the economic impact of migration> SInce I am embarking in my Ph D I would like to understand if the use of grounded theory in this area is competely new or not
To use Grounded Theory, you need to be doing qualitative research, and I suspect that most of the literature on the economic impact of migration is quantitative.
If you wanted to do a series of qualitative interviews with people about how migration had affected their lives, with an emphasis on the economic impacts, then that would be a reasonable topic for GT.
Thanks David.
Yes that is what I am doing, however I read a couple of articles of scholars who did applied GT to migration, although they were more looking at the sociological aspect of inclusivityu, rather than the economic one of the use of the remittance which is what I am more interested.
I am also following a different approach when it comes to the literature review, which as you know in a "pure" GT approach should be left out in the initial stage of the study, by instead looking at it so to better understand where the gaps in the existing studies are
The issue of whether to do a literature review prior to GT has received a lot of attention lately. I would say the general consensus is that the big distinction is between knowing the literature (which is desirable) versus applying the the literature to define the concepts you pursue in your research (which is undesirable).
Following Charmaz in the 2nd edition of Constructing Grounded Theory, it is almost impossible to enter the field without "sensitizing concepts" that influence what you choose to pay attention to. But you still need to questions those preconceptions throughout your research.
I agree David, actually I come a very interesting article of Dunne in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology which describe very well the current debate abd I concurre with his stand on the role of literarature review in GT
Here is a link on RG to another good article on this topic:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235327775_Informed_grounded_theory
Article Informed Grounded Theory
Thanks a lot, a very informative article, I think is going to help me in substantiate more the pragraph on the debate on the use of literature review in GT and my stand in it
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