Title: more problems than solutions?
Product review: As a student of its originators and a practitioner of the grounded theory approach, this book was for me a bit like reading an intelligent observer's critique of the conversations overheard at my family reunion, without knowing any of the context, history, or quirks of the family members themselves. Although Dey titles this book "Guidelines," I found it instead to be a methodological critique, as acknowledged in the editorial review provided by this website. Many issues Dey raises are reasonable and provocative, but his critique of the major methods texts of grounded theory bypasses the many hundreds of published examples of grounded theory research and thus doesn't address how the method is actually used in practice. This book will be of interest to serious grounded theory devotees who are able to see beyond some errors and misconceptions to a thoughtful exploration of important ideas behind grounded theory analysis, but it may discourage and confuse novices.
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