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what I term a grounded methodology, the reason I found a number of these rules of grounded theory initially useful, and then why I found that I had to adapt it into a wholly different scheme because it was too rigid in its purest orthodox form.
Thus, this book is designed primarily for those who are researchers themselves and would want to study the archaeology of such a method. It is a narrative through which I warn of the pitfalls of the research in my context without presenting these consequences as general laws. It is also an account of how such a study can be put together without having to conform to a formal blueprint of research and how it is a catalyst to a debate around the design of methodology that rejects orthodoxies and embraces creativity in research methodology, as much as scholars often do with interpretations of theories which develop out of studies using such methodologies. Therefore, although I do not present any results from the data in this book, I do discuss the issues that developed around this research as their own general findings, with their own initial methodological research questions and outcomes. This, I argue, is more representative of the inductive practice that lies at the heart of grounded theory.
My third and foremost reason for writing this book is the recognition of a need for a different type of book on the development of research studies, methodology, data collection, and analysis as a whole. There is a need for a book that mixes the three traditional genres of the literature on methodology—many of which are cited in the following chapters and are themselves subjects—and also adds to a debate on research about research methods, by developing a case study of what it is like to be the human subject that is called the researcher as well as a pursuant of empirical methodology.
The first genre that I mix is what I call the general methodology book, a sort of jumbled reference-type encyclopedia of methodology, where broad definitions are presented and a brief discussion of positives and negatives are considered. In these works, the main points of data collection