How to identify which ones are dimensions and which ones are components of a specific construct when one is doing grounded theory coding?
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1. Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide
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1 An Invitation to Grounded Theory. 1. 2 Gathering Rich Data. I. 13. 3 Coding in Grounded Theory Practice. 42. 4 Memo-writing. 72. 5 Theoretical Sampling ...\
2. Theoretical Coding: Text Analysis in Grounded Theory
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Theoretical Coding: Text Analysis in. Grounded Theory. Andreas Böhm. Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (1967) created in their grounded theory a ...
3. Grounded theory methodology
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of grounded theory as a qualitative method for psychological research. The chapter ... of grounded theory subscribe to different coding paradigms. These will be ...
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Please let me know if these references/sites are helpful to you:
1. Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide
www.sxf.uevora.pt/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Charmaz_2006.pdfSimilar
1 An Invitation to Grounded Theory. 1. 2 Gathering Rich Data. I. 13. 3 Coding in Grounded Theory Practice. 42. 4 Memo-writing. 72. 5 Theoretical Sampling ...\
2. Theoretical Coding: Text Analysis in Grounded Theory
www.sxf.uevora.pt/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Böhm_2004.pdfCached
by A Böhm -
Theoretical Coding: Text Analysis in. Grounded Theory. Andreas Böhm. Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (1967) created in their grounded theory a ...
3. Grounded theory methodology
www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335244492.pdfCached
of grounded theory as a qualitative method for psychological research. The chapter ... of grounded theory subscribe to different coding paradigms. These will be ...
Dennis
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Renaud Di Francesco, my query was related to grounded theory coding, which a qualitative research technique.
Dennis Mazur , the links are not working. But I am aware of Glaser and Strauss (1967). I am aware of the three levels of coding. What I am asking is how to understand which code is dimension of a construct and which code is the component under that dimension.
Dennis Mazur, thanks for the links, they work.
Subhanjan Sengupta, thanks you got me interested in this specific approach: and if you want to make the links work for you, you cut and paste appropriately, links work...
I am not aware of the idea of "component" as a major terminology in GT. In general, you build from initial codes to dimensions. Can you give us some citations for your confusions between components and dimensions.
Yes. Codes will give rise to dimensions. But won't the dimensions have components within them, which come together to form the dimensions? Those dimensions, along with the components, will come together to form the construct. My confusion is that if the codes are dimensions, where will the components come from? In my understanding, they will come from the coding process only. But how will one decide which code after third level of coding is a dimension, and which one a component within the dimension? If after application of GT one can not make the table of dimensions and components, how will the researcher move on to the next step of creating items for a quantitative pilot study?
The term that I know best in terms of higher levels of abstraction in GT is "categories." I personally think this is unfortunate, since most qualitative analysis treats categories as simple collections of similar codes, and reserves the word "themes" for the broad explanatory concepts that are created through qualitative analysis.
Within GT, one often hears about "raising" codes to categories, in the sense that some codes are more central or have more explanatory power than others. But I think it is rare for theoretical categories to be broken down into sub-compoenents. Someone who is more deeply into GT than I am can correct me if I am wrong, but I suspect that if your core concept/category/dimension is assembled from a piecewise set of sub-components, then you need to do more theoretical work (probably axial coding) to define and clarify that core category.
I have gone through different papers and books on GT. Being a young research scholar, this specific issue that you are talking about is still unclear to me. Is there any paper that you can recommend me specifically to sharpen my understanding of the coding process and how to identify and differentiate the 'categories' from the 'dimensions'? I am trying to learn this mostly on my own.
Namastay Sengupta, you have very interesting question and i think it is more an issue of semantics. Can you please let us know what do component and dimension mean to you? To avoid confusion, I would suggest you avoid using GT terminology of categories and and coding? Hence, I am also working Constructivist GT, I think we can jointly clarify your confusion.
Hi Arif, I think you have pointed out a vital point. That is - what is the clear distinction between 'component' and 'dimension'? And there are also terms like 'category' and 'themes'. I am in a stage in my thesis where this distinction has to be clearly understood. I am going through some literature review now to understand this. Lemme know if you have some insights on this. Glad to know you are working on Constructivist GT. I would recommend you look into Social Constructionism. The Constructionist viewpoint is an advancement of the Constructivist viewpoint.
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