This practical book provides clear guidance about how to use a “mixed method way of thinking” with grounded theory. It is being adapted in qualitative research methods classes where there is an interest in providing an introduction about pairing mixed methods and grounded theory in methodologically meaningful ways.
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1. Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Establishing Language and Purpose
This chapter builds an argument for the creative potential of partnering mixed methods with grounded theory for purposes of advancing analytical insight and developing an explanatory framework.
Chapter 2: Varied Approaches to Using Mixed Methods with Theoretical Frameworks
The chapter provides a glimpse of the range of ways that mixed methods has been paired with grounded theory procedures and how it can be used as an integrative framework at the onset of a study, to offer interpretive insight as a study is underway, and/or as its principal outcome.
Chapter 3: Mixed Methods and the Process of Theorizing
This chapter is about the procedures that advance theorizing, including how qualitative and quantitative data can be integrated through theoretical coding, analytical memo writing, case-based analysis, and theoretical sampling.
Chapter 4: Advancing Theoretical Reasoning with Visualizations
This chapter considers the ways that in empirical research, visual displays can play a role in the process of discovery. The chapter introduces creative approaches to integrating different sources of data in visual displays to advance theoretical reasoning. These include mapping, time lining, and variations of cluster mapping.
Chapter 5: Leveraging Dissonance to Advance Theoretical Reasoning
The opportunity to engage dissonance and incongruities in the results emerging from different methods is a unique benefit of a mixed method approach. When pursued systematically, these are often associated with original insight.
Chapter 6: Highlighting Quality Through Reporting
A specific research design or method is no guarantee that a study is scientific or that the results are credible or useful. This chapter considers different strategies that can be used to gauge the quality of MM-GTM research, including in the ways that research procedures or a final theoretical framework can be visualized effectively in a table or figure. A list of indicators of quality are discussed that extend beyond a singular reliance on transparency about research methods during reporting.