Graham D. Rowles 
Qualitative Gerontology [EPUB ebook] 
A Contemporary Perspective, Second Edition

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The authors provide a contemporary perspective on the status of qualitative research in gerontology. The second edition examines recent trends in the application of qualitative methodologies and the emergence of new qualitative techniques such as focus groups, studies of personal histories, and the use of photography. Chapters include discussions of critical and feminist perspectives, practice issues, ethical issues, and the contribution of qualitative research to the progress of science.

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Contributors

Preface

Part I: Introduction

  • Back to the Future, Nancy E. Schoenberg and Graham D. Rowles
  • Part II: Telling Stories

    Introduction,
    Hege Ravdal

  • Guided Autobiography: In Search of Ordinary Wisdom, Gary M. Kenyon

  • The Study of Lives in Progress: Approaches to Research on Life Stories, Johannes J.F. Schroots and James E. Birren
  • Part III: Being There

    Introduction,
    Sharon R. Kaufman

  • Ethnography of the Particular: The Individual Case and the Culture of Death in America, Sharon R. Kaufman

  • Participant Observations of a Participant Observer, Juliet M. Corbin

  • Online Ethnography: Studying Group Dynamics of a Virtual Community of Dementia Caregivers, Margaret A. Perkinson
  • Part IV: ”Let’s Talk”

    Introduction,
    Nancy E. Schoenberg

  • The Qualitative Interview With Older Informants: Some Key Questions, Robert L. Rubinsten

  • The Active Subject in Qualitative Gerontology, Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
  • Part V: Hybrid Vigor

    Introduction,
    Nancy E. Schoenberg

  • Counting and Recounting: Approaches to Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data and Methods, Lisa Groger and Jane K. Straker

  • Maximizing Methods: Interviewers as Informants, J. Kevin Eckert and Sheryl I. Zimmerman

  • Seeking Diagnosis for a Cognitively Impaired Family Member: Evidence from Focus Groups, David L. Morgan
  • Part VI: Looking and Seeing

    Introduction,
    Graham D. Rowles

  • A Picture is Worth…:The Use of Photography in Gerontological Research, Dena Shenk and Ronald M. Schmid

  • Seeing the Unseen: Literary Interpretation in Qualitative Gerontology, Maria D. Vesperi
  • Part VII: Perspective

  • Forward to the Past, Nancy E. Schoenberg and Graham D. Rowles
  • Index’

    Sobre o autor

    Nancy E. Schoenberg, Ph D, is the Marion Pearsall Endowed Associate Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Science, Anthropology, and Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky. She is also an Associate with the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, the Department of Communication, and the Center for Health Services Management and Research.

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