The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research

Abstract

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 Care * Discovering 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 Families * The Composite Biography as a Methodological Tool for the Study of Childhood in History * Family(in ital)Worlds(in ital)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 * Reference Notes Included