Open Coding Procedures in Grounded Theory

The following notes are on Open Coding Procedures in Grounded Theory:

1. Based on creative capacities and theoretical sensitivity, ask questions
2. The analytic procedures in the coding process:
• Make comparisons
• Ask questions
• Conceptualize data (label phenomena)
• Discover categories
• Name categories
• Develop categories in terms of properties
• Write code notes

Reference
Strauss, A. and Corbin, J. (1990) Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded  Theory Procedures and Techniques, SAGE Publications