Grounded Theory, Feminist Theory, Critical Theory

Kushner, Kaysi Eastlick; Morrow, Raymond A.

doi:10.1097/00012272-200301000-00006

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“…METHOD Methodologic strategies in this study included multiple methods of data generation, specifically individual and focus group interviews and policy and media documents, which are consistent with the perspectives of critical and institutional ethnography (Carspecken, 1996;Smith, 1987). The research engaged theoretical triangulation among critical, feminist, and symbolic interactionist perspectives (Kushner & Morrow, 2003). The perspectives are understood to be complementary in their philosophic assumptions and mutually corrective compared with each perspective taken.…”

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Embodied Context: Social Institutional Influences on Employed Mothers' Health Decision Making

Kushner¹

2005

Health Care for Women International

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The purpose of this critical ethnographic study was to explicate the ways that employed mothers' personal and family health decision making were socially organized through the institutions of motherhood, the family, the workplace, and the health care, education, and social systems in Canada. Data were analyzed from individual interviews, a focus group, workplace policy documents, and popular media articles. Twenty women participated over 2 years. Family, workplace, and social contexts were external influences on women's choices and were embodied through internal influences such as personal expectations that framed decision making. Strategies are suggested to promote the health and well-being of employed mothers and their families.

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Embodied Context: Social Institutional Influences on Employed Mothers' Health Decision Making

Kushner¹

2005

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“…This framework was considered particularly appropriate for a study area about which little is known because it provided the researcher with the very strategies to build theoretical propositions about an under-explored area of inquiry [14]. The focus under consideration here is how frail elders come to use day care services in Taiwan.…”

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Reconstructing Identity of Older People in Using Day Care Services in Taiwan: A Grounded Theory Study

Chiu¹,

Windsor²

2015

Int J Nurs Clin Pract

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Adult day care centers provide a means whereby frail or disabled older people can remain living at home particularly when their family care-givers engage in waged work. In Taiwan, adult day care services appear to meet the cultural needs of both older people and their families for whom filial care is vital. Little research attention has been paid to the use of day care services in Taiwan, the uptake rate of which is low. This grounded theory study explored the ways in which older people and family care-givers construct meanings around the use of day care services in Taiwan.The research methodology drew on the theoretical tenets of symbolic interactionism and methods were informed by the grounded theory. In-depth interviews with 30 participants were undertaken. Reconstructing identity in a shifting world is the core category of the study and reflects a process of reframing whereby older people came to new definitions of social responsibility and independence within the context of the day care center. The implications of the findings is that the older people, rather than seeking to be relieved of social responsibilities, worked very hard to frame and reframe a social role. Rather than letting the institutions undermine or disrupt their identity, the older people worked to actively negotiate and redefine the meaning of self. Thus, although reluctant to come to use the services at the outset, they found a way to manage their lives independently. Social roles and responsibilities as older parents were retained. This study explored the process of meaning construction of day care use and the ways in which this process entailed a reconstruction of the identities of the participants. The evidence from this study underlines the importance of recognizing and acknowledging subjectively conceived identities as work that older people undertake, when in care, to render their lives meaningful.

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“…This study is a narrative inquiry informed by the theoretical triangulation of critical, feminist, and symbolic interactionist ontology and epistemology (Kushner & Morrow, 2003: Pitre, Kushner, Raine, & Hegadoren, 2013. This sociological, critical feminist approach to narrative inquiry is designed to explore the symbolic, historical, structural, and ideological forces and conditions that interact with and influence participants' agency, identity, reflexivity, and voice as told within the stories that they share during one or more interviews (Pitre et al, 2013).…”

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Mothering in the Wake of Childhood Violence Experiences: Reweaving a Self and a World at the Intersection of History and Context

Pitre

Kushner

Hegadoren

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Health Care for Women International

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We examined the stories of 12 women mothering growing children at the intersection of personal history (childhood violence experiences) and symbolic, structural, and ideological forces and conditions. Women revealed their determination to reweave a self and a world, that is, to continually reconstruct and reconfigure their lives to change the story for themselves and their children. Women's ability to reweave, however, was facilitated or challenged through intersections with family, networks, single stories, and prescribed rules and routines. We propose that reweaving work is a significant phenomenon to consider as deeper understandings of the dynamic experience of adult resilience are sought.

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Grounded Theory, Feminist Theory, Critical Theory

Cited by 80 publications

References 12 publications

Embodied Context: Social Institutional Influences on Employed Mothers' Health Decision Making

Embodied Context: Social Institutional Influences on Employed Mothers' Health Decision Making

Reconstructing Identity of Older People in Using Day Care Services in Taiwan: A Grounded Theory Study

Mothering in the Wake of Childhood Violence Experiences: Reweaving a Self and a World at the Intersection of History and Context

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