The constant comparative method can be broken up into a series of stages. Here is an example of someone who has begun working through the stages involved.

Professor Goldman is interested in employee responses to downsizing and the laying off of coworkers. He has just removed a couple of concepts that did not prove to be relevant to his developing hypothesis, allowing him to greatly simplify his theory.

The last stage Professor Goldman completed was the stage, which means you can assume he will be moving on to the next stage of $.$