The methods and methodologies of qualitative family research / Jane F. Gilgun, Marvin B. Sussman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilgun, Jane Frances.

Sussman, Marvin B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Research.

Families.

Families--Research--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research can provide you with a strong conceptual framework for undertaking qualitative research. As it explores inquiry and theory on the cutting edge, it shows how qualitative methodologies can be applied to family life, education, and research. Designed to demonstrate how emerging and established methodologies can advance the understanding of families and direct social change, this book is a major step in assessing the development, progress, and contributions of qualitative inquiry. Packed with useful information and innovative a

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface: A Look at the Mosaic of Qualitative Family Research; Introduction: Showcasing Qualitative Family Research; PART I: RESEARCH REPORTS; Letters in the Attic: Private Reflections of Women, Wives, and Mothers; Document Analysis: The Contrast Between Official Case Records and the Journal of a Woman on Welfare; Bahamian Family Life as Depicted by Wives' Tales and Other Old Sayings; Egalitarianism and Oppression in Marriage: The Effects of Research on Researchers; African-American Adolescent Women: Perceptions of Gender, Race, and Class

Mama Still Sparkles: An Elder Role Model in Long-Term CareDiscovering Women's Work: A Study of Post-Retirement Aged Women; Using Pattern Matching and Modified Analytic Induction in Examining Justice Principles in Child Support Guidelines; PART II: LEARNING TO BE QUALITATIVE; Learning to Be Interpretive: Hermeneutics and Personal Texts; Learning to Teach Qualitative Research: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher; Research and Practice: A Reflexive and Recursive Relationship-Three Narratives, Five Voices; PART III: ESSAYS ON METHODOLOGIES

An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Service Use Among Ethnically Diverse Low Income FamiliesThe Composite Biography as a Methodological Tool for the Study of Childhood in History; Family Worlds and Qualitative Family Research: Emergence and Prospects of Whole-Family Methodology; Narrative Accounts, Generative Fathering, and Family Life Education; Money, Marriage and the Computer; Reflexivity and Qualitative Family Research: Insider's Perspectives in Bereaving the Loss of a Child; Index

Notes:

". has also been published as Marriage & family review, Volume 24, Numbers 1/2 and 3/4, 1996."

First published 1996 by the Haworth Press.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-72112-8

0-7890-0305-8

1-315-78664-8

1-317-72113-6

9781315786643

OCLC:

897457557