Qualitative methods in family research ; editors Jane F. Gilgun, Kerry Daly, Gerald Handel
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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California:
SAGE,
c 1992
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1 Introduction, 1 The fit between qualitative research and characteristics of families, 2 The qualitative tradition in family research, 3 Definitions, methodologies and methods in qualitative family research, Pt. 2 Interviews, 4 Interviewing college students about their constructions of love, 5 Case study interviews: caring for persons with AIDS, 6 Life histories: conflict in Southeast Asian refugee families, 7 Parenthood as problematic: insider interviews with couples seeking to adopt, 8 An in-depth interview with the parents of missing children, 9 Using multiple forms of family data: identifying pattern and meaning in sibling-infant relationships, 10 A family case stydy: an examination of the underclass debate, 11 A feminist observationin special needs adoptive families: the mediation of chronic illness and handicap, Pt. 3 Observation, 12 Participant observation in special needs adoptive families: the medition of chronic illness and handicap, 13 Observation in a clinical setting: team decision-making in family incest treatment, Pt. 4 Document analysis, 14 Analyzing popular literature: emergent themes on marriage and retirement, Pt. 5 Combined qualitative and quantitative approaches, 15 The blending of qualitative and quantitative methods in understanding childbearing among welfare recipients, 16 Using qualitative and quantitative methods: the transition to parenthood of infertile couples.