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Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research
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Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research

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November 1993 | 241 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
 
PART ONE: GROUNDED THEORY
 
Introduction
Denise Burnette
Managing Chronic Illness Alone in Later Life
Sisyphus at Work

 
Julie S Abramson and Terry Mizrahi
Examining Social Work/Physician Collaboration
An Application of Grounded Theory Methods

 
Robin Gregg
Explorations of Pregnancy and Choice in a High-Tech Age
 
PART TWO: NARRATIVE APPROACHES
 
Introduction
Robin A Robinson
Private Pain and Public Behaviors
Sexual Abuse and Delinquent Girls

 
Margareta Hydén
Woman Battering as a Marital Act
Interviewing and Analysis in Context

 
Catherine Kohler Riessman
Making Sense of Marital Violence
One Woman's Narrative

 
 
PART THREE: SUBJECTIVITY MATTERS
 
Introduction
Rhoda Hurst Rojiani
Disparities in the Social Construction of Long-Term Care
Cate Solomon
Welfare Workers' Response to Homeless Welfare Applicants
Cheryl Hyde
Reflections on a Journey
A Research Story

 
Suzanne E England
Modeling Theory from Fiction and Autobiography

Catherine Kohler Riessman

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. More About Author

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ISBN: 9780803954519
$179.00