Fallowing their profits by having Awareness of Dying, Glaser and Strauss decided to write the book in methodology. A Discovery of Grounded Theory was intended to invite & motivate population to have a new developed methodology. Unlike late works, it doesn't provide great deal advice in training put a theory into practice.

A authors got many goals around mind while writing a book: Legitimize qualitative research. With a reference by constituted authors helped students defend qualitative studies which were non widely accepted at the instance. Criticize fuctionalists like Talcott Parsons and his student Robert K. Merton who in turn had been a teacher of Barney Glaser. Demonstrate a possibility of building theories from either information, something that numerous qualitative investigator doubt to this day, instead chosing to follow mere ethnographic descriptions.