Jaber F Gubrium
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 84740 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jaber F Gubrium |
| NOMBRES | Jaber F |
| APELLIDO | Gubrium |
| FIRMA | GUBRIUM J F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3542-7218 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 114 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 738 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Interviews as Activated Storytelling
Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork
The Narrative Study of Self and Society
Stories and storytelling are found everywhere, from an overall cultural presence to the narrative study of self and society. Within a tradition of sociological research stemming from the 1920s, this chapter discusses the narrative study of self and society in the context of social interaction. Three forms of narrative study and aims are distinguished—ethnographic, strategic, and conversational. Substantive topics include the interactionist resear…
Doing Human Service Ethnography
Shadowing care workers when they're 'doing nothing' Doris Lydahl 2 Two worlds of professional relevance in a small village Christel Avendal 3 Capturing the organization of emotions in child welfare decision-making Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson PART II Grasping empirical complexity 4 Sensitizing concepts in studies of homelessness and disability Nanna Mik-Meyer 5 Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice
Reimagining the Human Service Relationship
This book helps professionals find new ways to foster trust and collaboration. Rethinking providing and receiving services in child welfare, addiction treatment, mental health, doctoring, palliative care, and more, it proves through everyday examples that these goals cannot be met without quality, interpersonal interaction.
Familles, malades chroniques et jeunes en difficulté
Les problèmes intergénérationnels connaissent diverses formes et différentes intensités. Comment l'entité familiale gère-t-elle ces problèmes et prend-elle soin de ses membres ? L'observation systématique de quelques groupes de personnes soutiens dans des situations organisationnelles différentes permet de montrer que les représentations véhiculées par les participants de ces groupes sont profondément marquées par les contextes organisationnels d…
Handbook of Constructionist Research
Turning Troubles into Problems
"Human service professionals deal with a wide range of problems, from child abuse, parenting issues, and elderly care, to addictions, mental illness, sexual assault, unemployment, and criminality. These must be constructed as problems for professionals to appropriately respond to them. Human service provision starts from there. But in the everyday experience of service providers and users alike, there is a parallel world of ordinary troubles that…
Varieties of Narrative Analysis
Narrative research has become increasingly popular in the social sciences. While no part of the process is easy, researchers often struggle to make sense of data that can seem chaotic and without a discernable pattern. This book shows how to analyze stories, storytelling, and stories in society, bringing together a variety of approaches to both texts and narrative practice under one cover.
The Sage Handbook of Interview Research
The new edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional, and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format
From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society
The Sage Handbook Of Interview Research
Don’t Argue with the Members”
The Sage handbook of interview research
The second edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional, and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format. The book begins with an overview of the history and conceptual transformations of the interview, which is followed by chapte…
Theoretical Validity and Empirical Utility of A Constructionist Analytics
Wing-Chung Ho offers an extensive critique of what he calls our “radical constructionist approach to family experience,” questioning the theoretical validity and empirical utility of the research program. This article responds to the charges in the broader context of the program's constructionist analytics, discussing family's experiential location, organizational embeddedness, and the importance of ethnographic sensibility. A brief extract of si…
Another turn to narrative practice
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Analyzing Narrative Reality
PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I. NARRATIVE REALITY 1. Stories in Society 2. Forms of Analysis 3. Into the Field PART II. NARRATIVE WORK 4. Activation 5. Linkage 6. Composition 7. Performance 8. Collaboration 9. Control PART III. NARRATIVE ENVIRONMENTS 10. Close Relationships 11. Local Culture 12. Status 13. Jobs 14. Organizations 15. Intertextuality PART IV. NARRATIVE ADEQUACY 16. What Is a Good Story? 17. Who Is a Good Storyteller? AFTERWORD REFEREN…
Handbook of constructionist research
Introduction. Gubrium, Holstein, The Constructionist Mosaic. Part 1. Foundations and Historical Context. Weinberg, The Philosophical Foundations of Constructionist Research. Best, Historical Development and Defining Issues of Constructionist Inquiry. Part 2. Constructionism across the Disciplines. Faubion, Marcus, Constructionism in Anthropology. Foster, Bochner, Social Constructionist Perspectives in Communication Research. Wortham, Jackson, Edu…
Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Family Discourse
Constructionist Perspectives on the Life Course
This article reviews recent developments in constructionist approaches to life course studies. It outlines the general tenets of social constructionism and compares and contrasts two contemporary constructionist perspectives on the life course
Urban Ethnography of the 1920s Working Girl
The 1920s was the era of the city. The urban population of the USA for the first time exceeded the population of rural areas and the nascent institutions of city life were flourishing. This article discusses the urban ethnography of the era with a focus on the way women and work was conceptualized, especially how 'the city' figured in explanation. Three ethnographies are examined -Frances Donovan'sThe Woman Who Waits (1920) and The Saleslady (192…
Constructing the Stroke
In this article, the authors explore the narrative production of stroke from the perspectives of survivors, that is, the stroke itself, not its implications for the individual poststroke. In the vast amount of literature on both sudden onset and chronic illness, the narrative construction of the onset of the illness, for the most part, has been ignored by social scientists, most notably in qualitative research. This is certainly true of stroke. D…
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Narrative Environments and Social Problems Get access Jaber F. Gubrium Jaber F. Gubrium University of Missouri—Columbia Direct correspondence to: Jaber F. Gubrium, Department of Sociology, 312 Middlebush Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-6100. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 52, Issue 4, 1 November 2005…
How Murray Manor Became an Ethnography
The Everyday Work and Auspices of Authenticity
Narrative Practice and the Coherence of Personal Stories
While the sociological analysis of personal stories is becoming more sophisticated, it would benefit from a refined appreciation for narrative practice. The theme of this article is that the coherence of stories and the experiences they convey are reflexively related to the manifold activities and the increasingly diverse conditions of storytelling. Drawing on ethnographically assembled story material, we offer an empirically sensitizing vocabula…
Sudden illness and biographical flow in narratives of stroke recovery
The conceptual framework of biographical disruption has dominated studies into the everyday experience of chronic illness. Biographical disruption assumes that the illness presents the person with an intense crisis, regardless of other mitigating factors. However, our data suggests that the lives of people who have a particular illness that is notably marked by sudden onset are not inevitably disrupted. Extensive qualitative interviews were condu…
Handbook of Constructionist Research
The Self in a World of Going Concerns
While commentators on the postmodern scene have dismissed or trivialized the personal self, it nonetheless remains a central experiential construct, articulating a sense of moral agency for everyday life. This article examines self-construction in the context of a world of proliferating going concerns-social institutions-that increasingly shape the discursive contours of subjectivity. Both the negative and the positive sides of this development a…
At the Border of Narrative and Ethnography
RECENT PROJECTS HAVE DRAWN US into analytic terrain that defies the emerging border between narrative and ethnography.This journal’s celebration of the turn of the century affords us the opportunity to reflect on the border as we consider ethnography’s past in relation to its future. We believe that the most promising challenge awaits qualitative researchers who are willing to work in relation to the representational tension of the border, not re…
The Social Preservation of Mind
Data from the Alzheimer's disease (senile dementia) experience are interpreted to extend and refine George Mead's theory of mind. While Mead conceived of mind as an internal conversation, the disease experience shows that the reality-status of mind is more practical and radically dialogical in organization. Taken as collectively preserved, mind is circumscribed through agents by means of rule-guided articulations and closures. Suggestions are off…
The Politics of Field Research
Introduction - David Silverman and Jaber F Gubrium PART ONE: POLITICS OF THE FIELD Deconstructing the Field - Roy Turner The Impossible Dreams of Reformism and Romanticism - David Silverman Romantics and Stoics - Philip M Strong and Robert Dingwall The Construction of a Sociological Consumer - Peter R Grahame PART TWO: POLITICS IN THE FIELD Local Cultures and Service Policy - Jaber F Gubrium Corridors of Power - Don Slater Evaluation Research and…
Fictive Family
Constructionist Perspectives on the Life Course
This article reviews recent developments in constructionist approaches to life course studies. It outlines the general tenets of social constructionism and compares and contrasts two contemporary constructionist perspectives on the life course
Deprivatization and the Construction of Domestic Life
Interpretations of and domestic life are increasingly deprivatized, that is, accomplished in various sites outside household. Addressing this situation, this article has two goals. First, it presents a constructionist approach to studies that views as a social object constituted through interpretive practice. Second, it documents how images and meanings are rationalized, public accomplishments. Featuring two interpretive conditions--local culture…
Grounding the Postmodern Self
In postmodern discourse, self is displaced as a central presence in experience and reappropriated as yet another personal signifier. This paper describes key postmodern views, then reframes postmodern vocabulary in terms of interpretive practice. It argues that the postmodern framing of self is too abstract and that a distinctly modern discourse focused on the deprivatization of interpretive activity can account empirically for features of postmo…
Family Discourse, Organizational Embeddedness, and Local Enactment
Treating family as an everyday, working vocabulary or discourse for assigning meaning to social relations, the analysis considers the social processes and descriptive conditions through which meaning is established, managed, and transcended. Highlighting both the descriptive utilities and the limits of organizationally embedded discourses, the article presents ethnographic material to show how family, although discursively and interactionally con…
The Need for Thin Description
Qualitative researchers tout the distinctive character of their work as thickly descriptive of the subject matter. They evaluate published results in the same terms, giving high marks to the richness of the best research. This article unpacks this universal standard and discusses the influence of preinvestigative empirical purview, analytic aims, and available data in addressing the question of why there is a need for thin as well as thick descri…
Family Rhetoric as Social Order
Taking the social order of family life to exist in its signs and rhetoric, we interpret field data gathered in human service settings to show how family order is sustained and transformed through representational practice. We address four aspects of family rhetoric: (1) scope of application, (2) rhetorical transformation, (3) signification and order, and (4) rhetorical predominance. The organization of native understandings and interpretations of…
Who Theorises Age
The question ‘Who theorises age?’ is meant to draw attention to the everyday theorising about age and ageing engaged by ordinary men and women, which, it is argued, has striking parallels with the theoretical products of professional peers. Following a discussion of some phenomenological features of conventional theorising in the field of ageing, the process of ordinary theorising is illustrated from observational and narrative data gathered in a…
Measurement and the interpretation of burden in the Alzheimer's disease experience
Structuring and destructuring the course of illness
Qualitative Inquiry and the Deprivatization of Experience
Contemporary social life is increasingly deprivatized, that is, conducted under the auspices of formal and informal groups, organizations, bureaucracies, and institutions. In these circumstances, personal (often private) experiential objects such as family, self, and the life course are subjected to extensive public discussion, debate, and definition. This article raises the question, Do contemporary social theory and society reflect one another …
Family Responsibility and Caregiving in the Qualitative Analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Experience
The Private Image
Prevalent in family studies is the private image of domestic life, in which household members' perceptions of family living are considered to be more realistic and telling than those of other persons. This article considers the private image for its methodological assumptions and implications. Recasting the assumptions in terms of descriptive practice, the authors present an alternate approach that construes family order as bound to organized, co…
Individual Agency, the Ordinary, and Postmodern Life
The postmodern challenge to sociological notions of individual agency assails its experiential substantiality, conveying agency instead in philosophically abstract terms and fleeting media images. In opposition to this, we argue that everyday interpretive practive reflexively constructs agency, utilizing resources drawn from the ordinary contours of experience. Narrative and ethnographic material collected in diverse settings, both formal and inf…
Life Course Malleability
The traditional view of the life course as the patterned progression of individual experience through time has been challenged on several fronts. The emerging view is that patterned progression is subject to diverse social, historical, and cultural influences. This article extends the challenge by considering the way ordinary biographical work situationally and discursively shapes life course patterning in relation to local cultural and organizat…
Patient Exclusion in Geriatric Staffings
A recent move toward patient rights in long-term care institutions is the inclusion of the patient in the planning of care and treatment. This paper describes how the strategic problem for staffers of patient participation in care staffings is managed. Data were collected by participant observation in five nursing homes and are organized in terms of solutions to the problems of patient participation. The use and support of patient exclusionary de…
Production of Hard Data in Human Service Institutions
The routine practice of hard data production is described in two human service institutions. Three modes of production are delineated: Direct counts of behavior, secondary production, and surveys of those in-the-know. Practical production is contrasted with the formal image of hard data held and used by staff members and regulating agents. The use of circumstantial rules and the use of glossing practices are shown to be two means by which hard da…
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Narrative Environments and Social Problems Get access Jaber F. Gubrium Jaber F. Gubrium University of Missouri—Columbia Direct correspondence to: Jaber F. Gubrium, Department of Sociology, 312 Middlebush Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-6100. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 52, Issue 4, 1 November 2005…
Never Too Old
The Self in Social Interaction
The Social Forces in Later Life
Retirement in American Society
The New Communes
Marital Desolation and the Evaluation of Everyday Life in Old Age
Interview data collected from a sample of 210 persons in Detroit, aged 60 to 94, were analyzed. A series of twelve items was utilized as a measure of four types of evaluation of everyday life. The main hypothesis tested was that relative isolation (desolation) as reflected in becoming widowed or divorced, rather than absolute isolation, which includes the widowed, divorced, and the single, is related to negative evaluations. On the whole, the des…
The Myth of the Golden Years
Death Worlds in a Nursing Home
Late Life
Aging in American Society
This manual had its origins in a training project at the University of Michigan directed at the staff and directors of area planning agncies on aging. The manual is a revised version of a manuscript used in the regional workshops to facilitate the planning and coordination of services and programs for older people. Its purpose is to provide an overview-of the major processes and concepts in aging, and a review of the important policies and progra…
Living and Dying at Murray Manor
Notes On the Social Organization of Senility
Doing Staffings
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Observing the Individual Problems of Human Service Records
Production of Hard Data in Human Service Institutions
The routine practice of hard data production is described in two human service institutions. Three modes of production are delineated: Direct counts of behavior, secondary production, and surveys of those in-the-know. Practical production is contrasted with the formal image of hard data held and used by staff members and regulating agents. The use of circumstantial rules and the use of glossing practices are shown to be two means by which hard da…
Doing care plans in patient conferences
Doing care plans in patient conferences
Humanizing Human Development
The underlife of behavior modification
The practice of behavior modification in a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children is described, based on the author's observations over 18 months. Particular attention is given to the influence of context and situation as staff members count units of behavior, report their findings, and meet with colleagues to evaluate their data. It is suggested that these data reflect a mixture of client behavior and tacit staff practic…
Patient Exclusion in Geriatric Staffings
A recent move toward patient rights in long-term care institutions is the inclusion of the patient in the planning of care and treatment. This paper describes how the strategic problem for staffers of patient participation in care staffings is managed. Data were collected by participant observation in five nursing homes and are organized in terms of solutions to the problems of patient participation. The use and support of patient exclusionary de…
The Limbo People
Considerations on a Theory of Descriptive Activity
From a working definition of description, the meaning of idealized representation is presented. I t is suggested that, as a universal means of depiction, idealized representation stands in a contradictory relationship with the concrete conditions of its production, generating descriptive irresponsibility. Features of descriptive activity are presented, which serve as a basis for redefining the moral character of idealized representation
Fictive Family
Describing Care
Rethinking Life Satisfaction
The behavioral reality referenced in the life satisfaction measurement of old people is examined conceptually and empirically. Three questions are addressed: (1) What is the image of life and satisfaction presented to subjects in the items of the five most commonly used scales and indices? (2) How might the image enter into the process of measurement? and (3) How does the image compare with experiences of life and its satisfactions among elders r…
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