ABSTRACT
In a grounded theory publication, the reader should be able to make judgments about some of the components of the research process that led to the publication. For instance, if one or more processes have been identified, these should have been discussed. The basic building block of any grounded theory is a set of concepts grounded in data. If there are only a few specified conceptual relationships, even if grounded and identified systematically, this leaves something to be desired in terms of the overall grounding for a grounded theory study. There should be many such relationships specified and at several levels of abstraction. Identifying and specifying of social and social/psychological processes is an important part of grounded theory research. These include the more obvious ones that can be analyzed in terms of stages or phases, but also the less obvious that capture the changeability of phenomena and the part that variation plays in this changeability.
