Theoretical Sampling and Category Development in Grounded Theory
By C. Draucker, D. Martsolf, Ratchneewan Ross, Tom Rusk. Qualitative Health Research, 2007
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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis (2016, background): “Category refers to the descriptive level of text and is explicit manifestation of the participants’ account.[26] Categories are descriptors of themes.”
- A Novice Researcher’s First Walk Through the Maze of Grounded Theory: Rationalization for Classical Grounded Theory (2013, neutral): “Draucker, Martsolf, Ross and Rusk (2007) presented a paper entitled “Theoretical Sampling and Category Development in Grounded Theory” which, on review, is only applicable to Straussian grounded theory and would have no place in CGT; both methods discuss theoretical sampling and category…”
- Sampling in Interview-Based Qualitative Research: A Theoretical and Practical Guide (2014, background): “…or from new locations (Strauss 1987), to build extra heterogeneity into the sample, or (b) re-structuring an already-gathered sample into a new set of categories that have emerged from analysis, and replacing any stratification/cells/quotas that were chosen a-priori (Draucker et al. 2007).”
- Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines (2020, background): “In the grounded theory literature, theoretical sampling refers to selecting items to study based on an emerging theory (e.g. Breckenridge and Jones 2009; Draucker et al. 2007).”
- Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail? (2025, neutral): “We employ theoretical sampling (Draucker et al., 2007) to ensure diversity in the identified MASs, and the set of tasks on which to collect data (MAS execution traces).”
- Purposive sampling: complex or simple? Research case examples (2020, methodology): “…cases from new groups, which might amount to being a comparison or a contrast with other groups, or reshaping the sample into a new set of criteria as a result of the analysis, and in so doing replacing the original sampling strategy chosen a-priori (Draucker et al., 2007; Robinson, 2014).”