Qualitative gerontology : a contemporary perspective by Rowles, Graham D; Schoenberg, Nancy E instant download

Qualitative gerontology : a contemporary perspective by Rowles, Graham D; Schoenberg, Nancy E instant download

xii, 290 p. : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, 1. Back to the Future / Nancy E. Schoenberg and Graham D. Rowles -- 2. Guided Autobiography: In Search of Ordinary Wisdom / Gary M. Kenyon -- 3. The Study of Lives in Progress: Approaches to Research on Life Stories / Johannes J. F. Schroots and James E. Birren -- 4. Ethnography of the Particular: The Individual Case and the Culture of Death in America / Sharon R Kaufman -- 5. Participant Observations of a Participant Observer / Juliet M. Corbin -- 6. Online Ethnography: Studying Group Dynamics of a Virtual Community of Dementia Caregivers / Margaret A. Perkinson -- 7. The Qualitative Interview With Older Informants: Some Key Questions / Robert L. Rubinstein -- 8. The Active Subject in Qualitative Gerontology / Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein -- 9. Counting and Recounting: Approaches to Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data and Methods / Lisa Groger and Jane K. Straker -- 10. Maximizing Methods: Interviewers as Informants / J. Kevin Eckert and Sheryl I. Zimmerman -- 11. Seeking Diagnosis for a Cognitively Impaired Family Member: Evidence From Focus Groups / David L. Morgan -- 12. A Picture Is Worth ...: The Use of Photography in Gerontological Research / Dena Shenk and Ronald M. Schmid -- 13. Seeing the Unseen: Literary Interpretation in Qualitative Gerontology / Maria D. Vesperi -- 14. Forward to the Past / Nancy E. Schoenberg and Graham D. Rowles