Table of content Preface: The Banff Symposium 9 Chapter 1: Tussles, Tensions, and Resolutions 13 Janice M. Morse Dialogue: Doing “Grounded ?eory” 21 Chapter 2: In the Beginning Glaser and Strauss 24 Created Grounded ?eory Phyllis Noerager Stern Photo Album 30 Chapter 3: Taking an Analytic Journey 35 Juliet Corbin Dialogue: On “Cleaning” Transcripts 54 Chapter 4: Glaserian Grounded ?eory 55 Phyllis Noerager Stern Example: P. N. Stern and J. Kerry: Restructuring 66 Life a?er Home Loss by Fire Dialogue: ?e Ethics of Interviewing 84 Chapter 5: Dimensional Analysis 86 Barbara Bowers and Leonard Schatzman Example: B. J. Bowers, B. Fibich, & N. Jacobson: 107 Care as Service, Care as Relating, Care as Comfort: Understanding Nursing Home Residents’ Perceptions of Quality Dialogue: Questions? 125 Chapter 6: Shi?ing the Grounds: 127 Constructivist Grounded ?eory Methods Kathy Charmaz Example: K. Charmaz, ?e Body, Identity, and Self: 155 Adapting to Impairment Dialogue: Subjectivity in Analysis 192 Chapter 7: From Grounded ?eory to Situational Analysis: 194 What’s New? Why? How? Adele E. Clarke Dialogue: Questions? 234 Chapter 8: Grounded ?eories: On Solid Ground 236 Janice M. Morse, Adele E. Clarke, Barbara Bowers, Kathy Charmaz, Juliet Corbin, and Phyllis Noerager Stern Resources 251 Index 257 About the Authors 263