The Discovery of Grounded Theory Strategies for Qualitative Research

"Our book is directed toward improving social scientists' capacities for generating theory that will be relevant to their research. Not everyone can be equally skilled at discovering theory, but neither do they need to be a genius to generate useful theory ... Although our emphasis is on generating theory rather than verifying it, we take special pains not to divorce those two activities, both necessary to the scientific enterprise."--Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Straus; Preface