Compară metode

	Codare selectivă	Analiza narativă
Domeniu	Calitativ	Calitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	1967 (Glaser & Strauss); refined 1990 (Strauss & Corbin)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
Autorul original	Barney Glaser & Anselm Strauss (classic GT); systematised by Anselm Strauss & Juliet Corbin; constructivist variant by Kathy Charmaz	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
Tip	Qualitative research method	Qualitative interpretive method
Sursa seminală	Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803932975	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
Denumiri alternative	focused coding, theoretical integration, GT selective coding, core category coding	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
Înrudite	6	6
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.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.