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Grounded theory: a methodological spiral from positivism to postmodernism

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Mills, Jane, Chapman, Ysanne, Bonner, Ann, Francis, Karen·2007·Journal of Advanced Nursing

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AIM: Our aim in this paper is to explain a methodological/methods package devised to incorporate situational and social world mapping with frame analysis, based on a grounded theory study of Australian rural nurses' experiences of mentoring. BACKGROUND: Situational analysis, as conceived by Adele Clarke, shifts the research methodology of grounded theory from being located within a postpositivist paradigm to a postmodern paradigm. Clarke uses three types of maps during this process: situational, social world and positional, in combination with discourse analysis. METHOD: During our grounded theory study, the process of concurrent interview data generation and analysis incorporated situational and social world mapping techniques. An outcome of this was our increased awareness of how outside actors influenced participants in their constructions of mentoring. In our attempts to use Clarke's methodological package, however, it became apparent that our constructivist beliefs about human agency could not be reconciled with the postmodern project of discourse analysis. We then turned to the literature on symbolic interactionism and adopted frame analysis as a method to examine the literature on rural nursing and mentoring as secondary form of data. FINDINGS: While we found situational and social world mapping very useful, we were less successful in using positional maps. In retrospect, we would argue that collective action framing provides an alternative to analysing such positions in the literature. This is particularly so for researchers who locate themselves within a constructivist paradigm, and who are therefore unwilling to reject the notion of human agency and the ability of individuals to shape their world in some way. CONCLUSION: Our example of using this package of situational and social worlds mapping with frame analysis is intended to assist other researchers to locate participants more transparently in the social worlds that they negotiate in their everyday practice.

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    Humans have agency to construct and reconstruct their own realities while influenced by discourse and context.

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    Prior to the publication of Rethinking Nursing in 2000, the federal government in Australia had abrogated responsibility for nursing to individual state governments.

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    Nurses have not commonly reported using frame analysis as a research method.

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    Researchers are increasingly conscious of considering their ontological and epistemological beliefs prior to both formulating their questions and choosing a methodology.

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    Grounded theory has been a popular choice for nurses because it seeks to discover issues of importance in participants' lives, but in its traditional postpositivist form it has become harder to reconcile for nurses who value reciprocal relationships between themselves and their participants.

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    Constructivist grounded theory explicitly addresses such concerns through its reformulation of research relationships and its emphasis on making the researcher visible and their theory about the area of interest redolent of the participants words.

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  1. Charmaz K., 1995, Between positivism and postmodernism: implications for methods, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 17, 43
  2. Corbin J., 1991, Social Organisation and Social Process: Essays in Honor of Anselm Strauss, 17
  3. Goffman E., 1974, Frame Analysis
  4. Jaworski A., 1999, The Discourse Reader
  5. National Nursing Workforce Forum, 2000, Rethinking Nursing: National Nursing Workforce Forum, 1

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Authors
Mills, J., Chapman, Y., Bonner, A., & Francis, K.
Affiliations
  • Monash University (AU)
  • James Cook University (AU)
Corresponding author
Mills, Jane
Venue
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2007-03-28
Volume
58
Issue
1
Pages
72-79
ISSN
  • 0309-2402 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2648
OpenAlex
W2105732842
Cited by
109
References
31
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FWCI
11.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
  • Acquire (CQUniversity) (submittedVersion)
  • Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Nursing education and management
Keywords
grounded theory, situation analysis, frame analysis, postmodernism, post-positivism, constructivism, human agency, symbolic interactionism, rural nursing, mentoring, collective action framing, discourse analysis
MeSH terms
Attitude of Health Personnel, Australia, Humans, Mentors, Nursing Theory, Philosophy, Nursing, Nursing Methodology Research, Rural Health Services, Postmodernism

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