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Contemplative Grounded Theory: Possibilities and Limitations

Radical Interactionism and Critiques of Contemporary Culture

ISBN: 978-1-83982-029-8, eISBN: 978-1-83982-028-1

Publication date: 30 April 2021

Abstract

The paper will concentrate on the Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) from the point of view of the contemplative social sciences (CSS). It will analyze how the mind is engaged in the construction of concept and what the role is of the consciousness of the mind's work in creating a theory that is based on the analysis of empirical data. We will review the research and analytical methods that could be inspirations for Contemplative Grounded Theory (CGT): constructivist grounded theory, classic grounded theory, transformational grounded theory, sociological introspection, holistic ethnography, mindful inquiry and transformational phenomenology, and contemplative qualitative inquiry.

We can find in many classical books from grounded theory (GT) some seeds of contemplative thinking, and we can reconstruct them (Glaser and Strauss, 1967; Glaser, 1978; Strauss, 1987). We would like to develop the inspirations more and perhaps change the sense of GT after the contemplative turn. We would like to show the possibilities of using CGT in research and also its limitations. Some empirical examples from research and analysis will be given to show how contemplation could be used in GT.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

The paper was written as a part of the project that has been financed by National Center of Science, Poland, Opus 15, No Project 2018/29/B/HS6/00513.

The author would like to thank reviewers for inspirations and thoughtful suggestions and revisions. Especially, the author would like to thank Kathy Charmaz for her suggestions and inspirations in writing this paper.

Citation

Konecki, K.T. (2021), "Contemplative Grounded Theory: Possibilities and Limitations", Denzin, N.K., Salvo, J. and Chen, S.-L.S. (Ed.) Radical Interactionism and Critiques of Contemporary Culture (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 52), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 151-186. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620210000052010

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