Suchergebnisse

Deciphering chronic pain / Isabelle Baszanger -- Identity dilemmas of chronically ill men / Kathy Charmaz -- A social worlds research adventure: the case of reproductive science / Adele E. Clarke -- Molecular biological bandwagon in cancer research: where social worlds meet / Joan H. Fujimura -- Time in the recruiting search process by headhunting companies / Krzysztof Konecki -- Line in the sand: defined dialogues in abusive relationships / Lora Bex Lempert -- Temporality and identity loss due to Alzheimer's diesease / Celia J. Orona -- of lungs and lungers: the classified story of tuberculosis / Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Trajectories, biographies, and the evolving medical technology scene: labor and delivery and the intensive care nursery / Carolyn Wiener, [et al.]

The authors contend that qualitative research should be scrutinized for its usefulness in the discovery of substantive theory. They try to present generic elements of the process of generating substantive theory from qualitative data, and consider how the researcher collects and analyzes qualitative data, max imizes the theory's credibility, puts trust in his theory, and conveys the theory to others. Drs. Glaser and Strauss are affiliated with the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco.