[STRAUSS87, pp. 265 - 288]

Here are the questions, find the answers in the book. See also [GLASER92] for alternate comments :-).

1. Is it necessary that the analyst be skilled in interviewing or doing field observations?
2. It is necessary to transcribe all your interviews or fieldnotes?
3. In line-by-line analysis: What does this line, word, really mean?
4. What is a category, an indicator, a dimension, a code? How do I recognize one?
5. Core categories: How do I know when I have one, or more?
6. How many core categories are permissible, advisable?
7. I don't understand how to convert psychological language into sociological language and perspective. How do I do that?
8. How do I learn to ask generative questions?
9. How do I choose a research topic?
10. Now that I've finished my thesis, I have several questions about theoretical sampling.
11. But how is theoretical sampling actually DONE - what are the specific operations? How does one THINK of the samples? For instance, if I'm interested in anomalies that appear in scientific work, ho do I sample using comparative analysis, since you say that's the basicstrategu?
12. How do I rid myself of habits of thinking in terms of quantitative methods which I learned earlier and which now interfere with my learning to do qualitative analysis?
13. When am I really going to get competent at this kind of qualitative analysis?
14. What do I do when I have done a whole bunch of integrative diagrams, all rather different?
15. After you decide on a core category and are well along in integration, what do you do with all those other ideas that don't fit well or not at all -- that seem not to belong to the main analytic story?
16. I still don't quite know how to relate my efforts to the technical literature. Aside from the point you've made about sometimes taking off from someone else's grounded theory, can you say again how one fits the analysis together with the literature?
17. How do I negate received theories, already in my head from past education and reading, which block me from seeing a fresh?
18. Is there a differences in working as an individual researcher and with a partner or as a member of a team?
19. How much can I do a day? How do I pace myself these analysis?
20. Now that the research seminars are finished, and I am alone with my own research, I have difficulty in grappling with or making progress with my own analysis: What can be done about that?
21. How do I present grounded theory results to quantitatively trained people? How, for example, do I write an effective proposal for funding, given that most reviewers are not trained in qualitative methods and almost certainly not in grounded theory methodology?

    (...) Insist that science requires a variety of methods! (...)

    (Flipping through the pages of "Awareness of Dying [GLASTRA65]" one sceptic scornfully threw it down, saying, "Horse manure, no tables!").

References:

• [GLASER92] Glaser, Barney G. 1992. Emergence vs. Forcing: Basics of Grounded Theory Analysis. Sociology Press, pp. 129. [HM28 Gla CLMS, -]
• [GLASTRA65] Glaser, Barney G., and Strauss, Anselm L. 1965. Awareness of Dying. Aldine Pub., pp. 302. [BF789 Dea.G CLCS, -]
• [STRAUSS87] Strauss, Anselm L. 1987. Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientist. Cambridge University Press, pp. 319. [H61 Sta CLMS, ISBN 0-5213-2845-4]