The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research

by Gilgun; Janet F

• ISBN13: 9780789000156
• ISBN10: 0789000156
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Designed to show you how emerging and established methodologies can advance the understanding of families and direct social change, The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research is an important step in assessing the development, progress, and contributions of qualitative inquiry.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Look at the Mosaic of Qualitative Family Research	p. xvii
Introduction: Showcasing Qualitative Family Research	p. 1
Research Reports
Letters in the Attic: Private Reflections of Women, Wives, and Mothers	p. 9
Document Analysis: The Contrast Between Official Case Records and the Journal of a Woman on Welfare	p. 41
Bahamian Family Life as Depicted by Wives' Tales and Other Old Sayings	p. 57
Egalitarianism and Oppression in Marriage: The Effects of Research on Researchers	p. 89
African-American Adolescent Women: Perceptions of Gender, Race, and Class	p. 105
Mama Still Sparkles: An Elder Role Model in Long-Term Care	p. 123
Discovering Women's Work: A Study of Post-Retirement Aged Women	p. 165
Using Pattern Matching and Modified Analytic Induction in Examining Justice Principles in Child Support Guidelines	p. 193
Learning to be Qualitative
Learning to Be Interpretive: Hermeneutics and Personal Texts	p. 223
Learning to Teach Qualitative Research: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher	p. 241
Research and Practice: A Reflexive and Recursive Relationship-Three Narratives, Five Voices	p. 275
Essays on Methodologies
An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Service Use Among Ethnically Diverse Low Income Families	p. 297
The Composite Biography as a Methodological Tool for the Study of Childhood in History	p. 323
Family Worlds and Qualitative Family Research: Emergence and Prospects of Whole-Family Methodology	p. 335
Narrative Accounts, Generative Fathering, and Family Life Education	p. 349
Money, Marriage and the Computer	p. 369
Reflexivity and Qualitative Family Research: Insider's Perspectives in Bereaving the Loss of a Child	p. 399
Index	p. 417
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