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MAIS 640: Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond (Rev. 1) Report a Broken Link

Master of Arts (Integrated Studies) 640: Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond is a graduate course designed to give students an introductory opportunity to produce their own original grounded-theory research. We hope that students will find that grounded-theory research has the potential to be an exciting creative endeavour. What is grounded theory? Simply, it is a social scientific methodology that is designed to generate theory from the “ground”—or information and data—up. Therefore, it is a theory-building methodology, rather than a theory-testing one. As students will see, the methodology is fairly unique to the practice of social research.

Textbook

Woods, P. (2005). Successful writing for qualitative researchers (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis Group.

Course 2
Supplementary Readings

Bridges, Lee. (1999, July–December). Race and social policy: Sivanandan's "grounded theory." Race and Class, pp. 151–161.
Brown, Shona L., & Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. (1997, March). The art of continuous change: Linking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(1), pp. 1–33.
Brudenell, Ingrid. (1997, August). A grounded theory of protecting recovery during transition to motherhood. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 23(3), pp. 453–466.
Charmaz, Kathy. (1995). Identity dilemmas of chronically ill men. In Barney G. Glaser (Ed.), Grounded theory 1984–1994 (Vol. 1) (pp. 377–404). Mill Valley: Sociology Press.
Dittmar, Helga, & Halliwell, Emma. (2003, December). A qualitative investigation of women's and men's body image concerns and their attitudes toward aging. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 49(11–12), pp. 675–684.
Morse, Janice. (2001). Situating grounded theory within qualitative inquiry. In Rita Sara Schreiber and Phyllis Noerager Stern (Eds.), Using grounded theory in nursing (pp. 1–15). New York: Springer.
Schreiber, Rita Sara. (2001). The “how to” of grounded theory: Avoiding the pitfalls. In Rita Sara Schreiber and Phyllis Noerager Stern (Eds.), Using grounded theory in nursing (pp. 55–83). New York: Springer.
Walton, Joni. (2002, October). Finding a balance: a grounded theory study of spirituality in hemodialysis. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 29(5), pp. 447—456.
Molzahn, Anita E., & Walton, Joni. (2002, October). Finding a balance: a grounded theory study of spirituality in hemodialysis (Commentary and Response). Nephrology Nursing Journal, 29(5), pp. 457.
Please note that this is written in response to the Walton article above.