What is the distinguishing characteristic of grounded theory?
A) Culture is analyzed by participant-observation in which the researcher becomes "grounded" in the culture over a long period of time.
B) It relies on analysis of texts in which a person tells a story about him- or herself.
C) The interplay among respondents allows them to piggyback off of each other's ideas.
D) It does not begin with a theory but instead extracts one from whatever emerges from an area of inquiry.

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Grounded theory starts without a pre-existing theory and focuses on developing a theory through the data collected during the research process. This means that the theory is grounded in the data rather than being imposed on it from outside.

What Is the Distinguishing Characteristic of Grounded Theory