Grounded Theory: A Straightfoward and Complicated Exposition

Grounded Theory is a popular and yet much-contested approach to research. Attempting to steer a course through the many shades of meaning which employ the label Grounded Theory, this narrative outlines Grounded Theory’s origin, subsequent development, and techniques, highlights what the author finds it useful to see as its defining distinctions and tenets, and explores the philosophical and epistemological implications of those distinctions and tenets. In so doing it seeks to communicate a better sense of Grounded Theory, both within and without the context of Archival Science