Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research [Paperback]

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.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
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
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