Compară metode

	Codare selectivă	Cercetarea de tip studiu de caz	Teoria Fundamentată
Domeniu	Calitativ	Calitativ	Cercetare calitativă
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	1967 (Glaser & Strauss); refined 1990 (Strauss & Corbin)	1984 (seminal codification)	1967
Autorul original	Barney Glaser & Anselm Strauss (classic GT); systematised by Anselm Strauss & Juliet Corbin; constructivist variant by Kathy Charmaz	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Tip	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research design	Method
Sursa seminală	Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803932975	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
Denumiri alternative	focused coding, theoretical integration, GT selective coding, core category coding	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
Înrudite	6	5	3
Rezumat	Selective coding is the third and final analytic phase of grounded theory, in which the researcher systematically identifies one central or core category that integrates all other major categories developed during open and axial coding. The outcome is a coherent, data-grounded substantive theory that explains the main social process or phenomenon under study. First formalized by Glaser and Strauss (1967) and later elaborated by Strauss and Corbin (1990) and Kathy Charmaz (2006), selective coding transforms fragmented mid-level categories into a unified theoretical account.	Case study research is a qualitative research design that investigates a specific phenomenon, individual, group, organisation, or event in depth within its real-world context. Systematised by Robert K. Yin in 1984, it supports single-case and multiple-case designs and draws on multiple data sources — interviews, observation, documents, and artefacts — to build a rich, contextualised account of a bounded unit.	Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic qualitative research methodology in which theory emerges directly from data through iterative analysis, rather than being imposed before data collection. Developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, GT prioritizes generating explanatory frameworks grounded in evidence.