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Grounded Theory Methodology as Methodical Hermeneutics

2000· article· en· 275 citations· W2115540960 on OpenAlex· 10.1177/0959354300104003

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.

Full frame distilled prediction

Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

Candidate categories
Metaresearch, Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categories
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Theoretical or conceptualConsensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
Genre
Candidate signal: OtherConsensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score
0.680
Threshold uncertainty score
1.000
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0330.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.002

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.365
GPT teacher head0.640
Teacher spread
0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

In this article it is argued that the realism-relativism duality addressed by the grounded theory approach to qualitative research is best accounted for when the method is understood to be an inductive approach to hermeneutics. Phenomenology, C.S. Peirce's theory of inference, philosophical hermeneutics, pragmatism and the new rhetoric are drawn upon in support of this argument. It is also held that this formulation of the grounded theory method opens the possibility that the method improves on earlier approaches to methodical hermeneutics. As an outcome of this formulation, the debate on the validity and reliability of returns from the grounded theory approach is cast in a new light. The new methodical hermeneutics is discussed in terms of prior attempts to relate hermeneutics to method.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

The record

Venue
Theory & Psychology
Topic
Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
Field
Social Sciences
Canadian institutions
North York General HospitalYork University
Funders
not available
Keywords
HermeneuticsEpistemologyGrounded theoryRelativismRhetoricPragmatismPhenomenology (philosophy)InferenceMetatheoryPhilosophySociologyQualitative researchSocial scienceLinguistics
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes