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Informationen zum Autor Catherine Kohler Riessman is Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston College, and an Emerita Professor at Boston University. She serves as a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University. Riessman has authored four books and numerous articles and book chapters in medical sociology and qualitative methodologies. Klappentext This useful volume offers alternatives to the dominant quantitative paradigm in social work research. It provides exemplary studies of social work problems using a diversity of qualitative approaches, including field observations, interviews, single cases, organizational documents and literary narratives. The studies, all made by social workers, range from examining surface content to the analysis of deep structures of discourse. Zusammenfassung Offers alternatives to the dominant quantitative paradigm in social work research. This title provides studies of social work problems using a diversity of qualitative approaches! including field observations! interviews! single cases! organizational documents and literary narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: GROUNDED THEORY Introduction Managing Chronic Illness Alone in Later Life - Denise Burnette Sisyphus at Work Examining Social Work/Physician Collaboration - Julie S Abramson and Terry Mizrahi An Application of Grounded Theory Methods Explorations of Pregnancy and Choice in a High-Tech Age - Robin Gregg PART TWO: NARRATIVE APPROACHES Introduction Private Pain and Public Behaviors - Robin A Robinson Sexual Abuse and Delinquent Girls Woman Battering as a Marital Act - Margareta Hydén Interviewing and Analysis in Context Making Sense of Marital Violence - Catherine Kohler Riessman One Woman¿s Narrative PART THREE: SUBJECTIVITY MATTERS Introduction Disparities in the Social Construction of Long-Term Care - Rhoda Hurst Rojiani Welfare Workers¿ Response to Homeless Welfare Applicants - Cate Solomon Reflections on a Journey - Cheryl Hyde A Research Story Modeling Theory from Fiction and Autobiography - Suzanne E England ...
