What Is the Distinguishing Characteristic of Grounded Theory

Multiple Choice

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.