Readers of this book will be introduced into an entirely new paradigm for doing rigorous research based on a qualitative methodology. Particularly if you are only familiar with the traditional scientific method and experimentalism, this book open up a whole new world. Glaser & Strauss show how theory emerges from the data, as an ever improving understanding of the signifiance of what is discovered.

This book really presents a robust way for a researcher in any field, but particularly in the human sciences, to approach day to day research. It is the living method of creativity and innovation, presenting a system for understanding one's discoveries and framing them to producing meaningful knowledge.

Everyone is approaching life this way, living out experiences and drawing conclusions from them, including the most mainstream of scientists. But Glaser and Strauss show how that process can be transformed from a willy-nilly gut feel into something that more reliably produces defensible knowledge claims and builds a substantive theoretical network.