Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

The general view of descriptive research as a lower level form of inquiry has influenced some researchers conducting qualitative research to claim methods they are really not using and not to claim the method they are using: namely, qualitative description. Qualitative descriptive studies have as their goal a comprehensive summary of events in the everyday terms of those events. Researchers conducting qualitative descriptive studies stay close to their data and to the surface of words and events. Qualitative descriptive designs typically are an eclectic but reasonable combination of sampling, and data collection, analysis, and re-presentation techniques. Qualitative descriptive study is the method of choice when straight descriptions of phenomena are desired.

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Whatever happened to qualitative description

How to Do Things With Words

The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

In his account of the medical profession’s ascent, Paul Starr drew a distinction between the social authority of physicians and the cultural authority of medicine—between doctors’ capacity to direc...

From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority.

Based on audio recordings of consultations in three U.S. paediatric multidisciplinary Disorders of Sex Development-Intersex clinics, we examine the process of gender assignment of children with "atypical" genitalia. Rather than fully determined by the presence of biological sex traits, the gender assignment discussion hinges on how clinician and parent collaboratively imagine different aspects of what constitutes being a gendered person. They orient towards the potential for sexual intimacy, fertility, gender dysphoria, stigma, and gonadal cancer risk. While these futures remain inherently uncertain, clinicians and parents plan to mobilise gender socialisation and medical interventions to render their choice of gender a self-fulfilling prophecy. Gender destinies capture that the child always had a specific, innate gender awaiting discovery, and presumes a project for medical and social monitoring, intervention, correction, and optimisation.

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Gender destinies: assigning gender in Disorders of Sex Development-Intersex clinics.

The bioethical misconception: A response to Lidz☆

Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction: Connecting Criminology and Sociology of Health and Illness: Stefan Timmermans and Jonathan Gabe. 2. Towards Generous Constraint: Freedom and Coercion in a French Addiction Treatment: Emilie Gomart. 3. The Cause of Death Vs. the Gift of Life: Boundary Maintenance and the Politics of Expertise in Death Investigation: Stefan Timmermans. 4. Violence Against Doctors: A Medical(ised) Problem? The Case of National Health Service General Pracitioners: Mary Ann Elston, Jonathan Gabe, David Denney, Raymond Lee and Maria Oa Beirne. 5. The Emergence and Implications of a Mental Health Ethos in Juvenile Justice: Sarah Armstrong. 6. Contesting the Text: Canadian Media Depictions of the Conflation of Mental Illness and Criminality: Riley Olstead. 7. Actor Networks, Policy Networks and Personality Disorder: Nick Manning. 8. Temporarily Insane: Pathologising Cultural Difference in American Criminal Courts: Sita Reddy. Index.

Partners in health, partners in crime : exploring the boundaries of criminology and sociology of health and illness

The relationship between economic ideas and public policy is a growing area of sociological inquiry. This paper examines a unique case of economic influence on policy: use of cost-effectiveness ana...

Stefan Timmermans

Papers

From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority.

Gender destinies: assigning gender in Disorders of Sex Development-Intersex clinics.

The bioethical misconception: A response to Lidz☆

Partners in health, partners in crime : exploring the boundaries of criminology and sociology of health and illness

The cost of saving babies: How economists justify policies