Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research
Edited by:
- Catherine Kohler Riessman - Boston College, USA, Boston University, USA
Other Titles in:
Group Work
Group Work
December 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
Julie S Abramson and Terry Mizrahi
Examining Social Work/Physician Collaboration
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
Margareta Hydén
Woman Battering as a Marital Act
Catherine Kohler Riessman
Making Sense of Marital Violence
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
Suzanne E England
Modeling Theory from Fiction and Autobiography