“Chapter VII of The Discovery of Grounded Theory concerns ‘theoretical elaboration of quantitative data’, and so does lay the basis for Glaser’s valid contention that GTM can use all kinds of data. But we would still hold to the generally accepted view that GTM is a qualitative research method, even if it can incorporate quantitate data: this characteristic is also true for many other qualitative methods.” (p.26)
“Although the emphasis on qualitative data is strong in our book, most chapters also can be used by those who wish to generate theory with quantitative data, since the process of generating theory is independent of the kind of data used.” (pp.17-8)
我们一定要清楚地意识到,格拉泽和斯特劳斯 (Glaser & Strauss,1967)最初提出的扎根理论这一方法论本身就是吸收了定性和定量方法(p.261)的做法,所以是一个综合的方法论(a general methodology)(Glaser, 1978, p.164)。
“…the important problems concerning qualitative research that we have tried to attack in this book: How can we further systematize qualitative research, and how can we systematically relate qualitative and quantitative research to obtain the best of both methods for generating grounded theory?” (Glaser & Strauss,1967, p.261)
“To be sure, there are many styles of quantitative analysis with their own rules. Our focus here is an illustration of how these numerous other styles can also be flexibly adapted to generating theory.” (p.187)
提出所谓“建构主义扎根理论”的查美斯和她的搭档Bryant(Bryant & Charmaz, 2007)来一句“the generally accepted view that GTM is a qualitative research method”(扎根理论方法是一个定性研究方法这一被普遍接受的观点)(p.26)就完事了,人与亦云,以讹传讹,就变成了现在各位读者在中英文文献里看到的,扎根理论是一种定性研究方法。
“At the time of my [Corbin’s] training, supposedly there was one ‘grounded theory’ approach, though this point is open to debate. Throughout the years, what was initially grounded theory has evolved into many different approaches to building theory grounded in data. Each evolution has been an attempt to modernize or to extend the original method, bringing it more in line with contemporary thought.” (Corbin & Strauss, 2008, p.viii, emphasis added)
“…Glaser strongly maintains that GTM is a method that can use all forms of data: qualitative and quantitative. Glaser has consistently made this argument over the years, but it is worth noting that the full title of Glaser and Strauss’s book was The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research.”
“Although the emphasis on qualitative data is strong in our book, most chapters also can be used by those who wish to generate theory with quantitative data, since the process of generating theory is independent of the kind of data used.” (pp.17-8)
“Use of the literature – initially to establish the basis for the research, but far more importantly, to refer to and engage with the relevant literature as an additional and critical form of data against which interim or later analyses can be positioned – this is what is referred to as theoretical coding.”(p.xxvi)