- Barney Glaser
Barney G. Glaser (born 1930), American sociologist and one of the founders of the
grounded theory methodology.Glaser was born in San Francisco and today lives in Mill Valley to the north. He received his BA degree at Stanford in 1952. He pursued academic studies at the
University of Paris ,France where he studied contemporary literature. He also studied literature atUniversity of Freiburg during off-hours from his military service for two years.At Columbia he was a student of
Paul Lazarsfeld andRobert K. Merton and received aPh.D. in 1961. The dissertation was published in the book "Organizational Scientists: Their Professional Careers". Post-doc Glaser started a research collaboration withAnselm Strauss at theUniversity of California, San Francisco . Together they wrote "Awareness of Dying " (1965) based on a study of dying inCalifornia n hospitals. The book was a success. As a response to the many methodological questions on the dying study the firstgrounded theory (GT) methodology appeared in 1967 co-authored with Strauss: "The Discovery of Grounded Theory ".In 1970 Glaser started the publishing company Sociology Press specializing in grounded theory methodologies and readers.The second grounded theory methodology was written by Glaser in 1978 (Theoretical Sensitivity). Thereafter Glaser has published several readers of grounded theory and four more methodologies and traveled throughout the world giving workshops and seminars to many researchers. In 1998 Glaser received an
honorary doctorate fromStockholm University ,Sweden .In 1999 Glaser founded the non-profit web based organization
Grounded Theory Institute .ee also
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Grounded theory
*Grounded theory (Glaser)
*Grounded Theory Institute External links
* [http://www.groundedtheory.com The Grounded Theory Institute]
* [http://www.groundedtheoryreview.com The Grounded Theory Review]
* [http://www.sociologypress.com Sociology Press]
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