Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Biographic Data
| ID | 95360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharlene Hesse-Biber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharlene |
| FAMILY NAME | Hesse-Biber |
| SIGNATURE | HESSE-BIBER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Taking Public Action on Private Troubles
Qualitative inquiry is well positioned to aid in public education on crucial social problems. Implementing a dual perspective engages not only quantitative approaches, but centers the critical role of qualitative inquiry in uncovering a multilayered analysis of the diversity and range of lived experience that can also contribute a rich perspective onto the wider quantitatively driven macro inquiry public landscape. The case studies presented prov…
Using a Feminist Standpoint Perspective and Praxis Lens to Challenge Neoliberalism in Eurozone Austerity Policy
The economic downturn in Eurozone countries started in late 2007, and it continues today, over a decade later. Current Eurozone economic austerity policy is a quantitatively driven “one size fits all” policy whose goals are to decrease Eurozone countries’ debt through a set of “belt-tightening” measures that amount to massive cutbacks in the service sector. Such measures have been shown to negatively impact the most vulnerable within these societ…
The Pink Underside
The growth of the Internet since the millennium has opened up a myriad of opportunities for education, particularly in medicine. Although those looking for health care information used to have to turn to a face-to-face doctor's visit, an immense library of medical advice is now available at their fingertips. The BRCA genetic predispositions (mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer genes) which expose men and women to greater risk of breast…
Doing Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Health Care Research
Current trends in health care research point to a shift from disciplinary models to interdisciplinary team-based mixed methods inquiry designs. This keynote address discusses the problems and prospects of creating vibrant mixed methods health care interdisciplinary research teams that can harness their potential synergy that holds the promise of addressing complex health care issues. We examine the range of factors and issues these types of resea…
The problems and prospects in the teaching of mixed methods research
There are pedagogical challenges USA students and instructors face within mixed methods classrooms. Instructors of mixed methods are often self-taught, lacking adequate training in both qualitative and quantitative approaches to research. Students are not often trained in both research approaches. These dual training gaps can result in deep pedagogical issues compromising students’ ability to fully understand mixed methods research praxis and lea…
Racial Identity and the Development of Body Image Issues among African American Adolescent Girls
As readers, children with dyslexia are vulnerable to becoming academically, socially, and emotionally detached from education. Traditional educational practices tend to use quantitative measures to diagnose children to better serve their needs and researchers, who study students with special needs often focus on a deficit model that quantify just how far a child is from the norm. This practice, while full of good intentions, often creates emotion…
Qualitative or Mixed Methods Research Inquiry Approaches
Mixed Methods Research
Contemporary mixed methods research (MMR) veers away from a "loosely bounded" to a "bounded" concept that has important negative implications for how qualitatively driven mixed methods approaches are positioned in the field of mixed methods and overall innovation in the praxis of MMR. I deploy the concept of reification defined as taking an object/abstraction and treating it as if it were real such that it takes on the quality of "thing-ness," ha…
The Genetic Testing Experience of BRCA-Positive Women
Little is known about how the breast cancer (BRCA) gene mutation affects women's decision-making processes. I use a feminist standpoint lens to explore the process by which BRCA-positive women came to socially construct and understand their risk for developing breast and/or ovarian cancer and the treatment options they elected post-testing. This study included in-depth interviews with 64 BRCA-positive mutation women, some of whom sought surveilla…
Handbook of Feminist Research
Weaving a Multimethodology and Mixed Methods Praxis Into Randomized Control Trials to Enhance Credibility
Most disciplines within the health and social sciences regard randomized control trials (RCTs) as the "gold standard" of evidence-based practice (EBP). The move toward mixed methods within evidence-based research has proven daunting to many researchers, and few best practices for RCT mixed methods studies currently exist. This article provides some strategies for incorporating mixed methods into RCT designs. Furthermore, the author argues for the…
Racial Identity and Body Image Among Black Female College Students Attending Predominately White Colleges
Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice
This article discusses how methodological practices can shape and limit how mixed methods is practiced and makes visible the current methodological assumptions embedded in mixed methods practice that can shut down a range of social inquiry. The article argues that there is a "methodological orthodoxy" in how mixed methods is practiced that currently favors quantitative methodologies, with a mixed methods praxis that positions qualitative methods …
Emerging Methodologies and Methods Practices in the Field of Mixed Methods Research
This special issue marks a reflective turning point in thinking about the theory and practice of mixed methods research. As a field of study, mixed methods practice is both “old” and “emergent.” It is old in that the field of mixed methods has an historical legacy of practice that has remained invisible. Early on, social science research practice employed mixed methods data. Hesse-Biber (2010) notes,Mixed methods research developed with the earli…
Feminist Research Practice
The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders
Testing Hypotheses on Qualitative Data
HyperRESEARCH is a computer-assisted software program for analyzing qualitative data. This article describes the analysis strategy of the hypothesis-testing component of the program. The Hypothesis Tester allows a researcher to generate a theoretical framework inductively from their data, or to test out a preexisting set of theoretical ideas on a given data set deductively. The hypothesis-testing component of HyperRESEARCH provides a semiformal m…
Working Women in America
The second edition of Working Women in America: Split Dreams highlights current research on critical issues affecting American women in today's global workplace. It features updated information and examples, including extended discussions of women's activism within and outside of the workplace, the impact of globalization, the effects of the glass ceiling and sexual harassment, and women's roles in the U.S. labor movement. Retaining the focus of …
A Longitudinal Study of Eating Disorders Among College Women
This study provides insight into factors that determine whether women in the college population who exhibit eating-disordered behavior during their college years recover during their postcollege years. The study assessed changes in the eating patterns of 21 women across a six-year time period, from sophomore year in college to two years postcollege. Eleven of the women get better during their postcollege year, whereas 10 of the women continue to …
Anthropology
This article provides an in-depth look at the multimedia aspects of HyperRESEARCH, a computer- assisted program for analyzing qualitative data. The authors describe in detail how the Hyper RESEARCH program analyzes audio, videodisc, videotape, and still images. They argue that although the inclusion of multimedia data allows for a much more comprehensive analysis of research materials, there are important data analysis issues and ethical problems…
Am I Thin Enough Yet?
In The Cult of Thinness, Sharlene Hesse-Biber builds on interviews with young women about their weight and body image and connects women’s eating patterns to images in popular culture. Linking eating disorders to contemporary social, cultural, and economic pressures on women to be thin, Hesse-Biber argues that diet and workout industries profit from this cult of thinness and help to perpetuate it.
Users' Experiences with Qualitative Data Analysis Software
The use of qualitative data analysis software has been increasing in recent years. A number of qualitative researchers have raised questions concerning the effect of such software in the research process. Fears have been expressed that the use of the computer for qualitative analysis may interfere with the relationship between the researcher and the research process itself by distancing the researcher from both the data and the respondent. Others…
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep
Empirical Approaches to Sociology
Closing the Technological Gender Gap
Feminist Audre Lorde states, The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. In this paper, however, we encourage women to seize computer toolsfor their own educational purposes in order to counteract the null they experience in the traditional classroom. We argue for a proactive feminist pedagogy that enhances women's computer learning by demystifying the computer and promoting technological equity in the classroom. To accomplish the…
Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice
This article discusses how methodological practices can shape and limit how mixed methods is practiced and makes visible the current methodological assumptions embedded in mixed methods practice that can shut down a range of social inquiry. The article argues that there is a "methodological orthodoxy" in how mixed methods is practiced that currently favors quantitative methodologies, with a mixed methods praxis that positions qualitative methods …
The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders
Racial Identity and Body Image Among Black Female College Students Attending Predominately White Colleges
Emerging Methodologies and Methods Practices in the Field of Mixed Methods Research
This special issue marks a reflective turning point in thinking about the theory and practice of mixed methods research. As a field of study, mixed methods practice is both “old” and “emergent.” It is old in that the field of mixed methods has an historical legacy of practice that has remained invisible. Early on, social science research practice employed mixed methods data. Hesse-Biber (2010) notes,Mixed methods research developed with the earli…
Weaving a Multimethodology and Mixed Methods Praxis Into Randomized Control Trials to Enhance Credibility
Most disciplines within the health and social sciences regard randomized control trials (RCTs) as the "gold standard" of evidence-based practice (EBP). The move toward mixed methods within evidence-based research has proven daunting to many researchers, and few best practices for RCT mixed methods studies currently exist. This article provides some strategies for incorporating mixed methods into RCT designs. Furthermore, the author argues for the…
Mixed Methods Research
Contemporary mixed methods research (MMR) veers away from a "loosely bounded" to a "bounded" concept that has important negative implications for how qualitatively driven mixed methods approaches are positioned in the field of mixed methods and overall innovation in the praxis of MMR. I deploy the concept of reification defined as taking an object/abstraction and treating it as if it were real such that it takes on the quality of "thing-ness," ha…
Women, weight and eating disorders
Eating patterns and disorders in a college population
The problems and prospects in the teaching of mixed methods research
There are pedagogical challenges USA students and instructors face within mixed methods classrooms. Instructors of mixed methods are often self-taught, lacking adequate training in both qualitative and quantitative approaches to research. Students are not often trained in both research approaches. These dual training gaps can result in deep pedagogical issues compromising students’ ability to fully understand mixed methods research praxis and lea…
The Genetic Testing Experience of BRCA-Positive Women
Little is known about how the breast cancer (BRCA) gene mutation affects women's decision-making processes. I use a feminist standpoint lens to explore the process by which BRCA-positive women came to socially construct and understand their risk for developing breast and/or ovarian cancer and the treatment options they elected post-testing. This study included in-depth interviews with 64 BRCA-positive mutation women, some of whom sought surveilla…
Doing Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Health Care Research
Current trends in health care research point to a shift from disciplinary models to interdisciplinary team-based mixed methods inquiry designs. This keynote address discusses the problems and prospects of creating vibrant mixed methods health care interdisciplinary research teams that can harness their potential synergy that holds the promise of addressing complex health care issues. We examine the range of factors and issues these types of resea…
Users' Experiences with Qualitative Data Analysis Software
The use of qualitative data analysis software has been increasing in recent years. A number of qualitative researchers have raised questions concerning the effect of such software in the research process. Fears have been expressed that the use of the computer for qualitative analysis may interfere with the relationship between the researcher and the research process itself by distancing the researcher from both the data and the respondent. Others…
A Longitudinal Study of Eating Disorders Among College Women
This study provides insight into factors that determine whether women in the college population who exhibit eating-disordered behavior during their college years recover during their postcollege years. The study assessed changes in the eating patterns of 21 women across a six-year time period, from sophomore year in college to two years postcollege. Eleven of the women get better during their postcollege year, whereas 10 of the women continue to …
Racial Identity and the Development of Body Image Issues among African American Adolescent Girls
As readers, children with dyslexia are vulnerable to becoming academically, socially, and emotionally detached from education. Traditional educational practices tend to use quantitative measures to diagnose children to better serve their needs and researchers, who study students with special needs often focus on a deficit model that quantify just how far a child is from the norm. This practice, while full of good intentions, often creates emotion…
Qualitative or Mixed Methods Research Inquiry Approaches
Closing the Technological Gender Gap
Feminist Audre Lorde states, The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. In this paper, however, we encourage women to seize computer toolsfor their own educational purposes in order to counteract the null they experience in the traditional classroom. We argue for a proactive feminist pedagogy that enhances women's computer learning by demystifying the computer and promoting technological equity in the classroom. To accomplish the…
Taking Public Action on Private Troubles
Qualitative inquiry is well positioned to aid in public education on crucial social problems. Implementing a dual perspective engages not only quantitative approaches, but centers the critical role of qualitative inquiry in uncovering a multilayered analysis of the diversity and range of lived experience that can also contribute a rich perspective onto the wider quantitatively driven macro inquiry public landscape. The case studies presented prov…
Testing Hypotheses on Qualitative Data
HyperRESEARCH is a computer-assisted software program for analyzing qualitative data. This article describes the analysis strategy of the hypothesis-testing component of the program. The Hypothesis Tester allows a researcher to generate a theoretical framework inductively from their data, or to test out a preexisting set of theoretical ideas on a given data set deductively. The hypothesis-testing component of HyperRESEARCH provides a semiformal m…
Using a Feminist Standpoint Perspective and Praxis Lens to Challenge Neoliberalism in Eurozone Austerity Policy
The economic downturn in Eurozone countries started in late 2007, and it continues today, over a decade later. Current Eurozone economic austerity policy is a quantitatively driven “one size fits all” policy whose goals are to decrease Eurozone countries’ debt through a set of “belt-tightening” measures that amount to massive cutbacks in the service sector. Such measures have been shown to negatively impact the most vulnerable within these societ…
The Pink Underside
The growth of the Internet since the millennium has opened up a myriad of opportunities for education, particularly in medicine. Although those looking for health care information used to have to turn to a face-to-face doctor's visit, an immense library of medical advice is now available at their fingertips. The BRCA genetic predispositions (mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer genes) which expose men and women to greater risk of breast…
Male and Female Students' Perceptions of Their Academic Environment and Future Career Plans
A total of 298 male and 634 female students completed a study questionnaire in 1981. Some important gender differences were found regarding students' career goals and their perceptions of the academic environment. Female respondents selected careers traditionally defined as acceptable for women and expressed less confidence that they would be successful in their work. Students' work and life style goals were shaped primarily by family and peers. …
Gender and prestige preference in language
Gender and prestige preference in language
The Political Influence of Older Americans
This essay explores the future prospects for the political influence of older Americans. Some analysts contend that the next fifty years will bring a marked increase in the political influence of the elderly. Others argue that the aged are unlikely to become a significant political influence at any time in the forseeable future. We review the relevant evidence and conclude that it is not entirely consistent with either of these positions. Our ana…
The Politics of Aging
Women and Work
Women at Work
The Politics of Aging
Male and Female Students' Perceptions of Their Academic Environment and Future Career Plans
A total of 298 male and 634 female students completed a study questionnaire in 1981. Some important gender differences were found regarding students' career goals and their perceptions of the academic environment. Female respondents selected careers traditionally defined as acceptable for women and expressed less confidence that they would be successful in their work. Students' work and life style goals were shaped primarily by family and peers. …
Eating patterns and disorders in a college population
Women, weight and eating disorders
Closing the Technological Gender Gap
Feminist Audre Lorde states, The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. In this paper, however, we encourage women to seize computer toolsfor their own educational purposes in order to counteract the null they experience in the traditional classroom. We argue for a proactive feminist pedagogy that enhances women's computer learning by demystifying the computer and promoting technological equity in the classroom. To accomplish the…
Empirical Approaches to Sociology
Am I Thin Enough Yet?
In The Cult of Thinness, Sharlene Hesse-Biber builds on interviews with young women about their weight and body image and connects women’s eating patterns to images in popular culture. Linking eating disorders to contemporary social, cultural, and economic pressures on women to be thin, Hesse-Biber argues that diet and workout industries profit from this cult of thinness and help to perpetuate it.
Users' Experiences with Qualitative Data Analysis Software
The use of qualitative data analysis software has been increasing in recent years. A number of qualitative researchers have raised questions concerning the effect of such software in the research process. Fears have been expressed that the use of the computer for qualitative analysis may interfere with the relationship between the researcher and the research process itself by distancing the researcher from both the data and the respondent. Others…
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep
Anthropology
This article provides an in-depth look at the multimedia aspects of HyperRESEARCH, a computer- assisted program for analyzing qualitative data. The authors describe in detail how the Hyper RESEARCH program analyzes audio, videodisc, videotape, and still images. They argue that although the inclusion of multimedia data allows for a much more comprehensive analysis of research materials, there are important data analysis issues and ethical problems…
A Longitudinal Study of Eating Disorders Among College Women
This study provides insight into factors that determine whether women in the college population who exhibit eating-disordered behavior during their college years recover during their postcollege years. The study assessed changes in the eating patterns of 21 women across a six-year time period, from sophomore year in college to two years postcollege. Eleven of the women get better during their postcollege year, whereas 10 of the women continue to …
Testing Hypotheses on Qualitative Data
HyperRESEARCH is a computer-assisted software program for analyzing qualitative data. This article describes the analysis strategy of the hypothesis-testing component of the program. The Hypothesis Tester allows a researcher to generate a theoretical framework inductively from their data, or to test out a preexisting set of theoretical ideas on a given data set deductively. The hypothesis-testing component of HyperRESEARCH provides a semiformal m…
Working Women in America
The second edition of Working Women in America: Split Dreams highlights current research on critical issues affecting American women in today's global workplace. It features updated information and examples, including extended discussions of women's activism within and outside of the workplace, the impact of globalization, the effects of the glass ceiling and sexual harassment, and women's roles in the U.S. labor movement. Retaining the focus of …
The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders
Feminist Research Practice
Racial Identity and Body Image Among Black Female College Students Attending Predominately White Colleges
Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice
This article discusses how methodological practices can shape and limit how mixed methods is practiced and makes visible the current methodological assumptions embedded in mixed methods practice that can shut down a range of social inquiry. The article argues that there is a "methodological orthodoxy" in how mixed methods is practiced that currently favors quantitative methodologies, with a mixed methods praxis that positions qualitative methods …
Emerging Methodologies and Methods Practices in the Field of Mixed Methods Research
This special issue marks a reflective turning point in thinking about the theory and practice of mixed methods research. As a field of study, mixed methods practice is both “old” and “emergent.” It is old in that the field of mixed methods has an historical legacy of practice that has remained invisible. Early on, social science research practice employed mixed methods data. Hesse-Biber (2010) notes,Mixed methods research developed with the earli…
Handbook of Feminist Research
Weaving a Multimethodology and Mixed Methods Praxis Into Randomized Control Trials to Enhance Credibility
Most disciplines within the health and social sciences regard randomized control trials (RCTs) as the "gold standard" of evidence-based practice (EBP). The move toward mixed methods within evidence-based research has proven daunting to many researchers, and few best practices for RCT mixed methods studies currently exist. This article provides some strategies for incorporating mixed methods into RCT designs. Furthermore, the author argues for the…
Sociology (24 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social science (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works)