A researcher is doing a study of peer groups in middle school. She interviews five girls and five boys. She is doing a grounded theory study; hence, she decides to start by generating her codes as she scans through her transcriptions of her data. These codes are labeled:
A) A priori codes
B) Post hoc codes
C) Inductive codes
D) Master list codes

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Inductive codes are generated from the data itself during the analysis process, which aligns with the grounded theory approach where codes are developed as the researcher examines the data.

A Researcher Is Doing a Study of Peer Groups in Middle