What is Qualitative Interviewing? is an accessible and comprehensive ‘what is’ and ‘how to’ methods book. It is distinctive in emphasizing the importance of good practice in understanding and undertaking qualitative interviews within the framework of a clear philosophical position. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland provide clear and succinct explanations of relevant philosophies and theories of how to know about the social world, and a thorough discussion of how to go about researching it using interviews. A series of short chapters explain a range of interview types and practices. Drawing on their own and colleagues’ experiences Edwards and Holland provide real research examples as informative illustrations of qualitative interviewing in practice and the use of creative interview tools. They discuss the use of new technologies as well as tackling enduring issues around asking and listening, and power dynamics in research. Written in a clear and accessible style the book concludes with a useful annotated bibliography of key texts and journals in the field. What is Qualitative Interviewing? provides a vital resource for both new and experienced researchers across the social science disciplines.

What is Qualitative Interviewing

Hermeneutic phenomenology and phenomenology have become increasingly popular as research methodologies, yet confusion still exists about the unique aspects of these two methodologies. This article provides a discussion of the essential similarities and differences between hermeneutic phenomenology and phenomenology from historical and methodological perspectives. Consideration is given to the philosophical bases, assumptions, focus of research and research outcomes that differentiate these approaches.

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Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Phenomenology: A Comparison of Historical and Methodological Considerations

We argue that the social construction of target populations is an important, albeit overlooked, political phenomenon that should take its place in the study of public policy by political scientists. The theory contends that social constructions influence the policy agenda and the selection of policy tools, as well as the rationales that legitimate policy choices. Constructions become embedded in policy as messages that are absorbed by citizens and affect their orientations and participation. The theory is important because it helps explain why some groups are advantaged more than others independently of traditional notions of political power and how policy designs reinforce or alter such advantages. An understanding of social constructions of target populations augments conventional hypotheses about the dynamics of policy change, the determination of beneficiaries and losers, the reasons for differing levels and types of participation among target groups, and the role of policy in democracy.

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Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy.

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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class

Family, friendship and community networks underlie much of the recent migration to industrial nations Current interest in these networks accompany the development of a migration system perspective

Family and personal networks in international migration: recent developments and new agendas.

Feminist Politics and Human Nature.

This paper argues that, by construing emotion as epistemologically subversive, the Western tradition has tended to obscure the vital role of emotion in the construction of knowledge. The paper begins with an account of emotion that stresses its active, voluntary, and socially constructed aspects, and indicates how emotion is involved in evaluation and observation. It then moves on to show how the myth of dispassionate investigation has functioned historically to undermine the epistemic authority of women as well as other social groups associated culturally with emotion. Finally, the paper sketches some ways in which the emotions of underclass groups, especially women, may contribute to the development of a critical social theory.

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Love and knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology

The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.

Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing

PART ONE: CONTINUING PROBLEMS Introduction Ruth Sidel, Mixed Messages Julius Lester, Being a Boy William H. Becker, Feminism's Personal Questions--for Men Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework Mary Kay Blakely, Calling All Working Fathers Barbara Ehrenreich, The Politics of Talking in Couples: Conversus Interruptus and Other Disorders Melinda Beck et al., Trading Places Shirley Hill Witt, Native American Women Today Yla Eason, When the Boss Wants Sex Abortion Proclamation Randy Albelda, Aborting Choice Bo Keppel, The Impact of Sexism Racism and Classism on HIV-Infected Women Suzanne Pharr, Hate Violence against Women. Lori Heise, The Global War against Women Jon Steinberg, Hungry at Debt's Door PART TWO: WHY THEORY Introduction Jane Flax, Women Do Theory Bettina Aptheker, Tapestries of Life Patricia Hill Collins, Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology Marilyn Frye, The Possibility of Feminist Theory PART THREE: THEORIES OF WOMEN'S SUBORDINATION Introduction Women's Subordination Through the Lens of Sex: Conservatism Sigmund Freud, Femininity Edward O. Wilson, Sex. Ruth Hubbard, The Political Nature of "Human Nature" Women's Subordination Through the Lens of Gender: Liberalism John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women National Organization for Women (NOW) Bill of Rights Women's Subordination Through the Lens of Class: Classical Marxism Friedrich Engels, Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State Evelyn Reed, Women: Caste, Class, or Oppressed Sex Women's Subordination Through the Lens of Sex and Gender and Sexuality: Radical Feminism Charlotte Bunch, Lesbians in Revolt Monique Wittig, One Is Not Born A Woman Catherine MacKinnon, Sex Equality: Difference and Dominance Women's Subordination Through the Lens of Gender and Class: Socialist Feminism Charlotte Perkins Gilman Chapter of the New American Movement, A View of Socialist Feminism Juliet Mitchell, Woman's Estate Heidi I. Hartmann, The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union Women's Subordination Through the Lens of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality: Multicultural Feminism Cherrie Moraga, From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, The Feminist Movement: Where Are All the Asian American Women Deborah King, Multiple Jeopardy: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology Gerda Lerner, Reconceptualizing Differences Among Women Women's Subordination World-Wide: Global Feminism Charlotte Bunch, Prospects for Global Feminism Ximena Bunster-Bunalto, Surviving Beyond Fear: Women and Torture in Latin America Cynthia Enlow, Bananas, Bases, and Patriarchy Andree Nicola McLaughlin, Black Women, Identity, and the Quest for Humanhood and Wholeness: Wild Women in the Whirlwind PART FOUR: PRACTICE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES THROUGH THE LENSES Introduction Staying Alive Women Count--Count Women's Work Diana M. Pearce, The Feminization of Poverty: Update Margaret B. Wilkerson and Jewell Handy Gresham, The Racialization of Poverty Cynthia R. Daniels, "There's No Place Like Home. Suzanne Pharr, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism Katherine Spiller, The Feminist Majority Report: Corporate Women and the Mommy Track Katherine S. Newman, Middle-Class Women in Trouble. Billie Wright Dziech & Linda Weiner, The Lecherous Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart Judith Rollins, Deference and Maternalism. Karen J. Hossfeld, "Their Logic Against Them" Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, Life on the Global Assembly Line Family Alix Kates Shulman, A Marriage Contract Rose M. Brewer, Black Women in Poverty: Some Comments on Female-Headed Families Philip S. Gutis, Family Redefines Itself, and Now the Law Follows Jeffner Allen, Motherhood: The Annihilation of Women Katha Pollit, The Strange Case of Baby M Judith Lewis Herman, Incestuous Fathers and their Families Nancy Chodorow, Gender, Personality and the Sexual Sociology of Adult Life Betsy Hartmann, A Womb of One's Own. John Krich, Here Come the Brides Mina Davis Caulfield, Imperialism, the Family and Cultures of Resistance Sexuality Shulamith Firestone, The Culture of Romance Sandra Lee Bartky, The Feminine Body Lillian B. Rubin, The Sexual Dilemma Angela Davis, Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist Andrea Dworkin, Letter from a War Zone Alice Walker, A Letter of the Times, or Should This Sado-masochism Be Saved Myrna Kostash, Second Thoughts Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence Marilyn Frye, Virgin Women Ann Ferguson, A Transitional Feminist Sexual Morality Charlotte Bunch, Strategies for Organizing Against Female Sexual Slavery

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Feminist Politics and Human Nature.

Love and knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology

Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing

Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Men

A companion to feminist philosophy