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	ทฤษฎีก่อร่างสร้างสรรค์	ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนา
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2000s (Charmaz 2000–2006; classic GT roots 1967)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Kathy Charmaz (building on Glaser & Strauss, 1967)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
ประเภท	Qualitative research method	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761973539	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	CGT, constructivist GT, Charmaz grounded theory, interpretive grounded theory	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	5
สรุป	Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) is a qualitative methodology developed by Kathy Charmaz that systematically builds mid-range theory from empirical data through iterative coding, memo-writing, and theoretical sampling. Unlike the original objectivist version by Glaser and Strauss, CGT treats both data and theory as co-constructed between researcher and participants, acknowledging the researcher's interpretive perspective as an integral part of the analytic process rather than a source of bias to be eliminated.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.