Metodología y tecnología cualitativasactualización de un debate, desde la mirada más atenta en la obra de Barney G. Glaser

  1. Valles Martínez, Miguel S. 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

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Journal:
Empiria: Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales

ISSN: 1139-5737

Year of publication: 2005

Issue: 9

Pages: 145-170

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5944/EMPIRIA.9.2005.1007 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

Glaser's methodological writings (1978, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2002) constitute a countercurrent attitude on the attraction towards new technologies experienced by some social researchers in the past twenty years. Moreover, this attitude could be seen as paradoxical because the methodological tradition of Grounded Theory (Glaser and Strauss, 1967) has been invoked as a methodological foundation by the developers of software designed to assist qualitative analysis. It will be sufficient to mention the programmes ATLAS.ti, NVivo or MAXqda. On the other hand, Glaser's intellectual biography offers some clues in order to overcome the discussion between qualitative and quantitative perspectives. He was critical with his teachers of Columbia. Later and now, in his present maturity, he has also been critical with the mainstream Anglo-Saxon qualitative researchers. He maintains a wrestling with them, setting the more orthodox and original perspective of the GT (grounded theory) against the intents of subsuming it in the magma of the QDA approach (qualitative data analysis) to qualitative investigation. Our work tries to make a deep assessment of this controversy, exploring Glaser's point of view carefully. So, we think Glaser's attitude is in the middle of a very relevant open field of investigation and methodological reflections.

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