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I **TABLE OF CONTENTS** Substantive area of interest 15 Why Grounded Theory Method 16 Why Grounded Theory is Suited to this Inquiry 19
 * CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION** 12

The Grounded Theory Method Process 22 Initial Research Setting 23 Sources of Data 23 Intensive Interviews 23 The Interview Question 24 Observations 24 The Analyst’s Perspective 25 Collegial Comments 25 Literature from the Substantive Area 25 Institutional documents, Conference Proceedings and Web Resources 25 Extant Theory 26 Slices of Data 26 Elements of the Grounded Theory process 27 Data Collection 28 Interview Data Types 30 Generating Codes from Data 31 Open Coding 32 Selective Coding 32 Core Variable 32 Theoretical Codes 33 Integrating the Codes 33 Theoretical Sampling 33 Memoing 35 Refining Memos from Concrete to Conceptual 35 Sorting the Memos 35 Analytical Rules 35 Reducing the Theory 36 Writing the Theory 37 Accessible Language 37 Developing an Ontology 38 Summary 38 Introduction 41 Overview 41 Keeping your distance applies across contexts 44 Keeping your distance accounts for changes over time 46 Systems thinking informs the theory 47 Conditions that Evoke Keeping Your Distance 48 Consequences of the Conditions 49 Dimensions of Keeping Your Distance Expose the Latent Patterns 49 Distancing for Physical safety 50 Distancing for Emotional control 52 Distancing for Autonomy 57 Distancing for Energy Conservation 61 Reactions and Strategies for Keeping Your Distance 64 Physical Distancing 64 Distancing by Proxy 64 Symbolic Distancing 65 Signaling 65 Using Heuristics and Biases 66 Internal Strategies 67 Compartmentalizing 67 Using Collective Strategies 68 Keeping your distance is a default position 68 Moderating the Keeping Your Distance Response 69 Skin Thickness 69 Outcomes of Keeping Your Distance Responses 71 Strategies can have unintended consequences 71 Achieving Optimal Distance 72 Deferring the Keeping Your Distance Response 73 Overriding the Keeping Your Distance response 74 What Gap Does this Theory Address? 76 Limitations of this Study 79 Implications of Keeping Your Distance 80 Critical Theory and Keeping Your Distance 81 Implications for Further Research 88 Changing Notions of Distance 89 Summary 90
 * CHAPTER TWO METHODOLOGY** 22
 * CHAPTER THREE: THEORY OF KEEPING Y0UR DISTANCE**
 * CHAPTER FOUR: DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY** 76
 * REFERENCES** 94