Jaber F. Gubrium

The ethnographic self : fieldwork and the representation of identity

Review of: Coffey, Amanda (1999) The Ethnographic Self, Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity. Sage Publications: London.

Qualitative methods in aging research

Introduction - Andrea Sankar and Jaber F Gubrium PART ONE: THINKING AHEAD Qualitative Research as Art and Science - Lucy Rose Fischer Ethical Issues - Jeanie Kayser-Jones and Barbara A Koenig Ethnic and Racial Issues - J Neil Henderson Problematizing Meaning - Dale J Jaffe and Eleanor M Miller PART TWO: PLANNING Proposal Writing - Robert L Rubinstein Managing Large Projects - Linda S Mitteness and Judith C Barker Consequences for Research Procedure - Jennie Keith PART THREE: DATA COLLECTION In-Depth Interviewing - Sharon R Kaufman Life Stories - J Brandon Wallace Fieldwork in Groups and Institutions - Karen A Lyman PART FOUR: FORMS OF ANALYSIS Analyzing Talk and Interaction - Jaber F Gubriu and James A Holstein The Identification and Analysis of Themes and Patterns - Mark R Luborsky Analyzing Personal Journals of Later Life - Harry J Berman Historical Perspectives on Caregiving - Emily K Abel Documenting Womens Experiences PART FIVE: WRITING AND RECOMMENDING Writing for the Right Audience - Ann Dill Qualitative Evaluation and Policy - Shulamit Reinharz

Varieties of Narrative Analysis

Part 1. Analyzing Stories Chapter 1. Exploring Psychological Themes through Narrative Accounts - Dan P. McAdams Chapter 2. Practicing Dialogical Narrative Analysis - Arthur W. Frank Chapter 3. Narrative Analysis as an Embodied Engagement with the Lives of Others - Andrew Sparkes and Brett Smith Chapter 4. On Quantitative Narrative Analysis - Roberto Franzosi Part 2. Analyzing Storytelling Chapter 5. Narrative Practice and Identity Navigation - Michael Bamberg Chapter 6. Exploring Narrative Interaction in Multiple Contexts - Amy Shuman Chapter 7. Speaker Roles in Personal Narratives - Michele Koven Chapter 8. Situational Context and Interaction in a Folklorists Ethnographic Approach to Storytelling - Ray Cashman Part 3. Analyzing Stories in Society Chapter 9. Analyzing the Implicit in Stories - Martha Feldman and Julka Almquist Chapter 10. Analyzing Popular Beliefs about Storytelling - Francesca Polletta Chapter 11. The Empirical Analysis of Formula Stories - Donileen Loseke Chapter 12. Analyzing the Social Life of Personal Experience Stories - Tamar Katriel

The Sage handbook of interview research : the complexity of the craft

SAGE Research MethodsThe SAGE research collection for learning J. (2012) ​The Sage Handbook of Interview Research : The Complexity of the Craft. 162-176. Beitin, Ben K. “Interview and Sampling: How Many and Whom.” The Sage Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft. 2nd ed. The interviews were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft, SAGE, Thousand.

AT THE BORDER OF NARRATIVE AND ETHNOGRAPHY

RECENT PROJECTS HAVE DRAWN US into analytic terrain that defies the emerging border between narrative and ethnography.This journal’s celebration of the turn of the century affords us the opportunity to reflect on the border as we consider ethnography’s past in relation to its future. We believe that the most promising challenge awaits qualitative researchers who are willing to work in relation to the representational tension of the border, not reinforce its separation. Narrative analysis refers loosely to the examination of the diverse stories, commentaries, and the conversations engaged in everyday life. Ethnography points broadly to the careful and usually long-term observation of a group of people to reveal the patterns of social life that are locally experienced. Ethnography presents details of living not always evident in stories and other accounts, which are notable from the “disinterested” perusal of interactional and narrative occasions. If narratives are best conveyed by those whose experiences they reflect, storytellers do not always recognize or know that what they describe is patterned and might be articulated differently at other times and places. Distinctive social patterning is highlighted by the comparative inclinations of ethnographers. In the practice of fieldwork, there is considerable overlap between narrative and ethnography. Fieldworkers traditionally have observed and recorded informants’ accounts as they have also documented indigenous social worlds. William Foote Whyte’s classic urban ethnography, Street Corner Society (1943), not only reports patterns of social interaction composed of leadership, followership, and their associated activities and sentiments in the street life of an American city, but simultaneously treats us to the narrative renditions of habitues. Recently,

Out of control : family therapy and domestic disorder

PART ONE: THEMES AND SETTINGS The Troubled Home The Settings PART TWO: WESTSIDE HOUSE Discerning Domestic Authority Constructing the System Restoring Hierarchy PART THREE: FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL Domestic Sentiments and Control The Rationalization of Feelings Facilitating Expression PART FOUR: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC DISORDER Voice and Method Language and Domestic Reality

Marital Desolation and the Evaluation of Everyday Life in Old Age.

Interview data collected from a sample of 210 persons in Detroit, aged 60 to 94, were analyzed. A series of twelve items was utilized as a measure of four types of evaluation of everyday life. The main hypothesis tested was that relative isolation (desolation) as reflected in becoming widowed or divorced, rather than absolute isolation, which includes the widowed, divorced, and the single, is related to negative evaluations. On the whole, the desolate (widowed and divorced) were found to be more negative than the nondesolate (single and married), with long-term, widowed desolates approximating nondesolates in their evaluations. A distinction between positive and negative desolation, and the anticipation of becoming desolate are discussed.

Being single in old age.

The routine, everyday life of single elders differs from that of other old people. On the basis of interview data both about themselves and some aspects of the quality of their everyday lives, it is proposed that single elders constitute a distinct type of social personality in old age. Interviews provide subjective and methodological evidence to support this. The “normal,” taken-for-granted social world of single elders is: relatively isolated; but not perceived in terms of loneliness, at present or anticipated; and considered an ordinary extension of their past. Death is conceived as “just another” event of their ongoing experiences.

Family Discourse, Organizational Embeddedness, and Local Enactment:

Treating family as an everyday, working vocabulary or discourse for assigning meaning to social relations, the analysis considers the social processes and descriptive conditions through which meaning is established, managed, and transcended. Highlighting both the descriptive utilities and the limits of organizationally embedded discourses, the article presents ethnographic material to show how family, although discursively and interactionally constituted, is a local enactment of practical reasoning substantively bounded by local culture yet offering grounds for resistance. The article suggests analytic orientations and strategies for examining family discourse and meaning in organizational context.

Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Family Discourse

Conventional approaches to family studies typically begin with an understanding or definition of the family that specifies its characteristics as a particular kind of group. This seems eminently reasonable, both commonsensically and as a social scientific practice. We all believe families to inhabit everyday life as concrete entities, and to study them we must clearly designate what is being observed. But how is the student of the family to take his or her encounters with people in the “real world” whose images of family seem radically different from the academic definitions? Consider, for example, the now-familiar refrain of the athlete who explains his team’s success by noting that “We have a good family atmosphere going” (Gubrium & Holstein, 1990, p. 140). Or what do we make of urban anthropologist Carol Stack’s (1974, p. 58) report that in the community she studied, “When friends more than adequately share the exchange of goods and services, they are called kinsmen … if two women of the same age are helping one another, they call their friend ‘just a sister’”?