?Basic social process? / grounded theory

[purepolly]

The exact text from the class notes read,

"Basic social process: these are core categories that describe social processes over time. All BSP's are core variables and the words end in "-ing"

The topic - grounded theory in qualitative research

Any ideas, examples, anything?

 

[gotsmack]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...p;s=books&n=507846

I bought an older edition for $15. I had to read it so I could do research this past summer.

Just thinking about the material makes me wanna cry.

Basically it is reading whatever you want to extract information from, then you do 3 levels of coding to ID information. Very complex stuff, I would NOT do it without someone experienced monitoring the output.

 

[purepolly]

"Just thinking about the material makes me wanna cry."

I can relate, I've got reams of meaningless notes from this prof for an exam tomorrow, and all I have learned so far is that she is an absolute idiot. She tries to dazzle us with BS, ask her any question and the answer always comes back to her standard reply regarding sample size. Unfortunately the text isn't much better.

Whatever, hopefully the exam questions will come from the testbank.

 

[gotsmack]

I just noticed I only answered 1/2 of your question.

The "-ing" words you are looking for are derived from your coding. they are action words like

1. Grabbing
2. Hiding
3. Avoiding
4. Discounting

The words you get depending on what you just read and what you are trying to code for.

I could be wrong, but I'm 99% sure that is what you are loking for.