Barney glaser biography

American sociologist (1930–2022)

Barney Galland Glaser (1930–2022) was an American sociologist and one of the founders of the grounded theory methodology.

Glaser was born on February 27, 1930, in San Francisco, California, and lived in nearby Mill Valley. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Stanford University in 1952. He pursued academic studies at the University of Paris where he studied contemporary literature.

Barney glaser and anselm strauss

He also studied literature at University of Freiburg for two years during off-hours from his military service.

At Columbia University he was a student of Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1961.

The dissertation was published in the book Organizational Scientists: Their Professional Careers. Post-doc Glaser started a research collaboration with Anselm Strauss at the University of California, San Francisco. Together they wrote Awareness of Dying (1965) based on a study of dying in Californian