This guide outlines the differences between active interviews and traditional interviews and give novice researchers clear guidelines on conducting a successful interview.
This guide outlines the differences between active interviews and traditional interviews and give novice researchers clear guidelines on conducting a ...
Living and Dying at Murray Manor is a classic text that documents how the -work- of everyday life in a nursing home is accomplished. Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer, involved in activities ranging from performing menial -toileting- work to serving as a gerontologist at staff meetings. The result is not a survey of statistics about nursing homes but an examination of the social organization of care in a single home the author calls Murray Manor. Gubrium's research reveals how staff, clientele, relatives, visiting physicians, and funeral...
Living and Dying at Murray Manor is a classic text that documents how the -work- of everyday life in a nursing home is accomplished. Jaber F. Gubri...
-At a time when more and more researchers are collecting and reproducing personal narratives, there is a pressing need for clear, sound methodological guidance. We owe a debt of gratitude to Gubrium and Holstein for the scope and rigour of their analysis.- --Paul Atkinson, Cardiff University, U.K.
-Analyzing Narrative Reality is a finely crafted and compelling argument for thinking about narratives not only as meaningful stories that help us make sense of the world, but as dynamic, ubiquitous, and profoundly important features...
-At a time when more and more researchers are collecting and reproducing personal narratives, there is a pressing need for clear,...
Since "family" takes on such highly varied forms, any discussion of what it is, who it is, or what family life is like is bound to be complicated--perhaps even controversial. Couples, Kids, and Family Life examines these issues in an engaging and insightful way, approaching the realm of family from "the inside out." Offering a distinctive view of what the social worlds of family life might look like from the standpoint of "insiders," it examines family perspectives and scenarios though the eyes of partners, parents, children, and significant others. Featuring a series of specially...
Since "family" takes on such highly varied forms, any discussion of what it is, who it is, or what family life is like is bound to be complicated--per...
Human service professionals deal with a wide range of problems, from child abuse, parenting issues, and elderly care, to addictions, mental illness, sexual assault, unemployment, and criminality. These must be constructed as problems for professionals to appropriately respond to them. Human service provision starts from there. But in the everyday experience of service providers and users alike, there is a parallel world of ordinary troubles that remains professionally undefined but real, even when troubles are turned into problems.
This book brings into view the...
Human service professionals deal with a wide range of problems, from child abuse, parenting issues, and elderly care, to addictions, mental illness...
