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Readings for Future Dissertation Research

I'm just trying to hold myself accountable. Here is a list of references I will review. I pasted this straight from my Qualitative Methodology and Social Theory courses at UCSF. I do not know how to cite a syllabus, yet. Thanks Dr. Pinderhughes and Dr. McLemore!


General and Ethical

See Codes of Ethics for (Qualitative) Research: www.asanet.org/about/ethics.cfm

Guillemin, M. & Gillam L. (2004). Ethics, reflexivity and ethically important moments in

research. Qualitative Inquiry, 10 (2), 261-280. (Link to publisher)

Lietz, C. A., Langer, C. L., & Furman, R. (2006). Establishing trustworthiness in qualitative

research in social work; implications from a study regarding spirituality. Qualitative Social Work, 5(4), 441-458. (Good, detailed description of methods employed in one study

to establish rigor.)

Morse, J.M. (2006). The politics of evidence. Qualitative Health Research, 16(3), 395-404.

Morse, JM (2015). Critical analysis of strategies for determining rigor in qualitative inquiry.

Qualitative Health Research, 25(9), 1212-1222.

Porter, S. (2007). Validity trustworthiness and rigor: reasserting realism in qualitative research.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 60, 79-86. PMID: 17824942

Sandelowski, M. (1993). Rigor or rigor mortis: The problem of rigor in qualitative research

revisited. Advances in Nursing Science, 16, 1-8. (Classic reference.) PDF on Moodle

Stige, B, Malterud, K, & Midtgarden, T. 2009. Toward an agenda for evaluation of qualitative

research. Qualitative Health Research 19(10): 1504-1516.


Situational Analysis

Atkinson, Paul, A. Coffey, S. Delamont, J. Lofland, & L. Lofland (Eds.) 2001. Handbook of

ethnography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Chan, G., Brykczynski, K., Malone R. & Benner, P. Editors. 2010. Interpretive Phenomenology

in Health Care Research. Indianapolis: Sigma Theta Tau International Press. This entire

text is full of exemplars of interpretive phenomenological research and methodological

discussions.

Clarke, A. E., Friese, C. & Washburn, R. S. 2018. Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After

the Interpretive Turn. 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Clarke, A. E. 2009. “From Grounded Theory to Situational Analysis: What’s New? Why?

How?” Pp. 194-235 in Developing grounded theory: the second generation, edited by J.

M. Morse, P. N. Stern, J. M. Corbin, K. C. Charmaz, B. Bowers, & A. E. Clarke. Walnut

Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Clarke, Adele E. 2019. “Situational Analysis: A Critical Interactionist Method.” In M. H. J

Jacobsen (Ed.), Critical and Cultural Interactionism (pp. 189-209). London: Routledge.

Clarke, Adele E. 2019. “Situating GT and Situational Analysis in the History of Interpretive

Qualitative Inquiry.” In Antony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz (Eds.) SAGE Handbook of

Current Developments in Grounded Theory (pp. 3-47). London: Sage, 2nd ed.

Clarke, Adele E. in Conversation with Reiner Keller. 2014. "Engaging Complexities: Working

Against Simplification as an Agenda for Qualitative Research Today."Forum Qualitative

Sozialforschung 15(2): Online at

Davis, D.A. & Craven, C. (2016). Feminist Ethnography. Thinking Through Methodologies,

Challenges and Possibilities. Baltimore, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Denzin, N., & Giardina, M. (Eds.). 2007. Ethical futures in qualitative inquiry: Decolonizing the

politics of knowledge. Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press.

Denzin, N., Lincoln, Y. and L. T. Smith (Eds.) 2008. Handbook of Critical and Indigenous

Methodologies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dill, B. T., & Zambrana, R. E. 2009. Emerging intersections: Race, class, and gender in theory,

policy and practice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Frank, A. W. 1995. The wounded storyteller: Body, illness, and ethics. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press.

Grzanka, P. & E.S. Mann. 2014. Queer Youth Suicide and the Psychopolitics of “It Gets

Better.” Sexualities 17(4):369-393.

Martin, W., Pauly, B. and MacDonald, M. 2016. Situational Analysis for Complex Systems:

Methodological Development in Public Health Research. AIMS Public Health 3(1):94-

109.

Phellas, C.N. (Ed.) 2012. Researching Non-Heterosexual Sexualities. Farnham, UK: Ashgate.

Salazar-Torres, V.M. and Öhman, A. 2015. Negotiating Masculinity, Violence, and

Responsibility: A Situational Analysis of Young Nicaraguan Men’s Discourses on Intimate

Partner and Sexual Violence. Journal of Aggression Maltreatment & Trauma 24(2):131-

149.

Smith, Jonathan A., Paul Flowers & Michael Larkin (2009. Interpretative Phenomenological

Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Chapter 2 pages 11-12; 16-18; 21-39

Sprague, J. 2005. Feminist methodologies for critical researchers: Bridging differences.

Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (Eds.). 1997. Grounded theory in practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


Web Resources:

Sage Companion Website: https://study.sagepub.com/clarke2e.

Includes templates for maps. www.situationalanalysis.com This is the website

maintained by Adele E. Clarke, developer of the method of situational analysis. It

contains up-to-date lists of publications and dissertations using situational analysis; a list

of Clarke's publications on research methods; a searchable and downloadable

bibliography from the book Situational Analysis (Sage, 2005), and other resources.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Situational-Analysis/214734101890718

The Facebook page offers resources about the method including up-to-date lists of

selected exemplars; all known publications and dissertations using situational analysis;

and Clarke's publications on methods

www.qualitative-forschung.de/methodentreffen/archiv/video/closinglecture_2011/index.html

This is the video of a talk given in English by Adele Clarke at the Berlin Qualitative

Workshops in 2011. There is a long introduction in German by Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller

(University of Augsburg) who arranged for the German translation of Situational

Analysis. Clarke's talk and slides are in English.

http://dne2.ucsf.edu/public/anselmstrauss/social-worlds.html This is the website for Anselm

Strauss's work, including a list of his publications on social worlds theory and two

articles about it.


Interpretive Phenomenology

Cohen, M.Z., Kahn, D.L., & Steeves, R.H. (2000). Hermeneutic phenomenological research; A

practical guide for Nurse Researchers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Call No.: RT81 5C63

2000)

Cook, G., Thompson, J. & Reed, J. (2015). Re-conceptualising the status of residents in a care

home: older people wanting to ‘live with care’. Ageing and Society, 35(08), 1587 – 1613.

DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X14000397

Crowther, S., Ironside, P., Spence, D., & Smythe, L. (2017). Crafting stories in hermeneutic

phenomenology Research: A methodologic device. Qualitative Health Research, 27(6),

826-835.

Miles M, Francis K, Chapman Y, Taylor B. (2013). Hermeneutic phenomenology: A metho-

dology of choice for midwives. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 19: 404-414

Nden, D. (2010). Hermeneutics and observation--a discussion. Nursing Inquiry, 17(1), 75-81.

PMID: 20137033

Newman, C, Cashin, A, & Waters, C D. (2010). A modified hermeneutic phenomenological

approach toward individuals who have autism. Research in Nursing & Health, 33(3),

265-71. PMID: 20499396

O'Brien, A., Chesla, CA, Humphreys, J. (2018) Couples Experiencing the Diagnosis of

Maternal Postpartum Depression, JOGNN, 48(3), 341-350

Palacios J, Strickland J, Chesla CA, Kennedy HP, and Portillo CJ. Weaving dreamcatchers:

mothering among American Indian women who are teen mothers. J Adv Nurs 70.1 (2013

May):153-63. PMID: 23713884. PMCID: PMC3815508

van Manen, M. (1997). Researching lived experience: Human science for an action sensitive

pedagogy. London, Ontario, Canada: The Althouse Press. (Call No.: LB1028 M26851997)

van Manen, Max (2014). Phenomenology of Practice; Meaning-Giving Methods in

Phenomenological Research and Writing. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.


Racial Analysis

DuBois, W. E. B. 1903. The Souls of Black Folk. The Forethought, Chapter I and II (pgs.1-18);

Chapter IX (pgs. 69-79); Chapter XII (pgs 90-96); Chapter XIV (pgs. 106-111).

DuBois, W. E. B. 1899. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Schocken Books.

Introduction (pgs. ix-xlii); Chapter I & II (pgs. 1-9); Chapter XVIII (pgs. 385-397).

Cox, Oliver Cromwell. 1959. Race, Caste and Class: A Study in Social Dynamics. Monthly

Review Press. pgs. 317-384; pgs. 545-583.

Winant, Howard. 2000. Race and Race Theory. Annual Review of Sociology. pgs. 169-185.


Feminism

Addams, Jane. 1902. Democracy and Social Ethics. Introduction (pp. 1-12) and Chapter VII

(pp. 221-278).

Ahmed, S. 2009. Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists. Race

Ethnicty and Education. 12, 41-52.

De Ishtar, Z. 2005. Striving for a common language: A white feminist parallel to Indigenous

ways of knowing and researching. Women’s Studies International Forum, 28, 357-368.

Dill, T., McLaughline, B., Amy E., & Nieves, A.D. (2006). "Future Directions of Feminist

Research: Intersectionality." Pp. 629-638 in Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Handbook of

Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1898. Women and Economics. pp. iii - 98.

Martineau, Harriette. 1837. Society in America. Vol I, Part I, Chapter III, Section VI & VII (pp.

144-154).

Hekman, S. 2007. “Feminist Methodology.” Pp. 534-546 in W. Outhwaite and S. P. Turner

(Eds.) Handbook of Social Science Methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jolivétte, A.J. (Ed). (2015). Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change. Chicago, IL:

Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press.

Chapter 1: Research Justice: Radical love as a strategy for social transformation.

Chapter 2: Imagining justice: Politics, pedagogy, and dissent.

Kim, H.S. 2006. “The Politics of Border Crossings: Black, Postcolonial, and Transnational

Feminist Perspectives.” Pp. 107-122 in Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Handbook of Feminist

Research: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lather, P. 2008. (Post) Feminist methodology. International Review of Qualitative Research,

1(1), 55-64.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2003. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory,

Practicing Solidarity. Duke University Press. Introduction (1-13); Chapter 1 (17-42);

Chapter 8 (190-217).


Ethnography

Atkinson, P. & Pugsley, L. 2005. Making sense of ethnography and medical education.

Medical Education, 39, 228-234.

Barbour, R. 2005. Making sense of focus groups. Medical Education, 39,742-50.

Dwyer, S.C. & Buckle, J.L. 2009. "The Space Between: On Being an Insider-Outsider in

Qualitative Research." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 8(1): 54-63.

Dickson-Swift, Virginia, Erica L. James, Sandra Kippen and Pranee Liamputtong. 2007. Doing

Sensitive Research: What Challenges Do Qualitative Researchers Face? Qualitative

Research 7(3): 327-53.

Hegelund, A. 2005. Objectivity and subjectivity in the ethnographic method. Qualitative

Health Research, 15, 647-668.

Hunter, C.L., Spence, K., McKenna, K. & Iedema, R. 2008. Learning how we learn: An

ethnographic study in a neonatal intensive care unit. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 62,

657-64.

Kaufman, K.S. 1994. The insider-outsider dilemma: Field experience of a white researcher

"getting in" a poor black community. Nursing Research, 43, 179-183.

Miller, F.A., & Alvarado, K. 2005. Incorporating documents into qualitative nursing research. J

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 37, 348-53.

Murphy, F. 2005. Preparing for the field: Developing competence as an ethnographic field

worker. Nurse Researcher, 12(3), 52-60.

Quinlan, Elizabeth. 2008. Conspicuous Invisibility: Shadowing as a Data Collection Strategy.

Qualitative Inquiry 14(8): 1480-1499.

Shaw, J. A. (2016). Reflexivity and the “Acting Subject”; Conceptualizing the unit of analysis

in Walby, K. 2007. On the social relations of research. A critical assessment of

institutional ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 13(7), 1008-1030.

Wind, G. 2008. Negotiated interactive observation: Doing fieldwork in hospital settings.

Anthropology & Medicine,15(2), 79-89.


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