Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry
- Johnny Saldana - Arizona State University, USA
Qualitative Methods | Qualitative Research (General) | Sociological Research Methods
This unique text shows researchers how to develop theories derived through qualitative inquiry. Johnny Saldaña illustrates how a theory is a research-based statement with an accompanying explicating narrative that contains six properties: concepts, propositional logic, parameters/variation, explanation/causation, generalizability/transferability, and the improvement of social life. The book features hundreds of examples of theories and metatheories from a wide range of disciplines and includes end-of-chapter activities for exercising the skills necessary to develop original theories. Just as Saldaña demystifies coding and qualitative data analysis in his bestselling Sage books, Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry presents an accessible introduction to the principles and methods of theorizing for social insight.
I adopted Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry for the Basics of Arts Research and Methodology BA course. I concentrated on parts of chapter 1 Defining theory and 9 Modeling a theory to support the undergraduate students with basic principles, including theory, modeling, visualization and creative research aspects. The whole book is important, but in my opinion especially these chapters prepare the unexperienced BA students best for their upcoming seminar-research-thesis and the final BA creative research project/thesis. Furthermore, this topic is essential to my own dissertation and further publications I plan on methodology matters in the fields I am working in.
I have ordered the book to my university library to enable this semester and future students to access the whole book.
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