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Symbolic interaction
Theoretical perspective on how social reality is created by huma interaction through ongoing, taken-for-granted processes of symbolic communication.
Philosophical underpinning of grounded theory
Pragmatism
Theoretical perspective that problems of truth and meaning need to be arrived at inductively; understood in terms of their utility and consequences; and modified to fit the circumstances of time, place, and the advent of new knowledge.
Constant comparison
A systematic approach to analysis that is a search for patterns in data as they are coded, sorted into categories, and examined in different contexts.
Theoretical sampling
Decision making, while concurrently collecting and analyzing data, about the data and data sources that are needed further to develop the emerging theory.
Saturation
The point at which categories of data are full and data collection ceases to provide new information.
Core variable
A theoretical summarization of a process or pattern that people go through in specified life experiences
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