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Kathy Charmaz (1939–2020) was the developer of Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT), a key method in qualitative research internationally and across many disciplines and professions. She was Professor Emerita of Sociology at Sonoma State University, California, and former Director of its Faculty Writing Program. Her book, Constructing Grounded Theory, is the definitive guide to developing a constructivist perspective, and is the seminal title for anyone serious about doing CGT research.
This Festschrift to honour Kathy Charmaz’s scholarship features fourteen chapters plus an editors’ introduction, exploring CGT extensively, examining topics including “Indigenization” of the method, its approaches to decolonizing research, uses of CGT in social justice research, and the legacies of Kathy Charmaz’s remarkable mentorship.
Edited by Antony Bryant and Adele E. Clarke, both of whom co-authored and edited with Kathy, and eminent scholars of qualitative methods in their own right, this is a glowing tribute to her long and distinguished career.
Chapter 1. On the Edges of Grounded Theory: Ode to Kathy; Norman K. Denzin
Antony Bryant is Professor of Informatics, Leeds Beckett University, UK; Chief Researcher, Institute of Educational Research, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. He has written extensively on qualitative research methods, being Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (2007) and The SAGE Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory (2019), both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz.
Adele E. Clarke is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A. She developed situational analysis, an extension of grounded theory, and has published four books about it. With Jan Morse, Kathy Charmaz and others, she co-authored the 2nd edition of Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation Revisited (Routledge, 2021).