Linda Liska Belgrave
Biographic Data
| ID | 134529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Liska Belgrave |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda Liska |
| FAMILY NAME | Belgrave |
| SIGNATURE | BELGRAVE L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Toward an expanded definition of symbolic interactionism
To expand our definition of symbolic interactionism (SI), we need to reclaim its pragmatist roots, re-examine them from the perspective of 21st-century social scientists, and reconsider our conceptions of what SI can mean as a perspective and as a method for studying the empirical world. While contemporary symbolic interactionists adopt SI as a guiding perspective, relatively few have explained its implications for methods. Similarly, we often lo…
The Life Course Metaphor: Implications for Biography and Interpretive Research
This paper reviews qualitative research in the United States, highlighting the ways research has changed in the era of the third age. With growing attention to positive and uplifting aspects of aging, qualitative research has played a critical role in the exploration of the ways in which older adults are engaging in meaningful ways with others. We describe two key methodological approaches that have been important to examining positive aspects of…
Navigating the Drinking Self: A Qualitative Study of Beer Consumption Among the Working-Poor in Botswana
Alcohol consumption studies in sub-Saharan Africa have largely focused on social control and regulatory mechanisms in specific settings without particular reference to how drinkers negotiate and navigate their drinking selves. Existing studies do not give enough attention to how consumers enact, make sense and experience drinking in light of state regulatory efforts. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach among twenty (20) beer drinkers,…
Living with HIV and Dying with Aids: Diversity, Inequality and Human Rights in the Global Pandemic
Thinking About Data With Grounded Theory
This article examines qualitative data in an era of neoliberalism and focuses on the place of data in grounded theory studies. Neoliberal values of individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, competition, efficiency, and profit have entered the conduct of research. Neoliberalism fosters (a) reifying quantitative logical-deductive research, (b) imposing surveillance of types and sources of data, (c) marginalizing inductive qualitative research, a…
Self
Although the self exists in social life, common definitions of the self accentuate its subjective side: the qualities, attributes, values, feelings, and moral sentiments that a person assumes to be his or her own. The social sources of self make subjectivity possible because the person's experience of feelings, images, and interpretations emerges and takes on meaning through social interaction
Grounded Theory
Grounded theory is a general methodology with systematic guidelines for gathering and analyzing data to generate middle‐range theory. The name “grounded theory” mirrors its fundamental premise that researchers can and should develop theory from rigorous analyses of empirical data. The analytic process consists of coding data; developing, checking, and integrating theoretical categories; and writing analytic narratives throughout inquiry. Barney G…
Living with HIV and Dying with Aids: Diversity, Inequality and Human Rights in the Global Pandemic
Chronic Illness and Disability
Chronic illness lasts. A chronic illness has a lengthy duration, uncertain outcome, and unpredictable episodes, often with intrusive symptoms and intermittent or progressive disability. Having a chronic illness poses life problems such as following a medical regimen, managing ordinary responsibilities, and experiencing stigma and discrimination. A disease, in contrast, may remain silent for years without eliciting a diagnosis or causing noticeabl…
Modern Symbolic Interaction Theory and Health
Qualitative Interviewing and Grounded Theory Analysis
Meaning of Political Controversy in the Classroom: A Dialogue Across The Podium
The abstract value of academic freedom is enjoyed (or not) in concrete settings, as interactional and emergent experiences. We examine classroom political controversy in our experiences, understandings, and values, using grounded theory methods and collective autoethnography by a team of five teachers and students. Our data were generated through electronic and face-to-face dialogues. Our analysis, guided by a symbolic interactionist and construc…
She Works Hard for the Money: Drag Queens and the Management of Their Contradictory Status of Celebrity and Marginality
This article reports an ethnographic study of drag queens who perform in Miami Beach. Drag queens are marginalized, both economically and socially. However, drag enables some gay men to emphasize and manipulate aspects of femininity for the means of earning attention and income and garnering situational power. Grounding their empirical findings in symbolic interaction, identity, and performance theories, the authors argue that drag queens employ …
The Interaction of Drag Queens and Gay Men in Public and Private Spaces
This study examines the issue of internal segregation within the gay community, focusing on the ways by which the drag queen subculture is distanced from larger mainstream gay society. Through the use of institutional ethnography, symbolic interactionism, and a naturalist approach to sociology, the researchers sought to understand the subjective experience of the drag queen, in particular how drag queens perceive their interactions with mainstrea…
Globalisation and medicine in Trinidad
In a qualitative study of urban Trinidadians who work in the medical industry, the concept of medical globalisation was provisionally analysed. Two research questions were addressed: what is globalisation, in the context of mainstream medicine, and how is this process manifested in everyday practices? Four fundamental principles of medical globalisation emerged from in-depth interviews and analysis of observational materials: (1) the notion of hi…
Living with Dementia: Lay Definitions of Alzheimer's Disease among African American Caregivers and Sufferers
While the medical world aggressively pursues scientific knowledge about Alzheimer's disease, sufferers and caregivers live with this ailment, not as patients, but as people going about their lives, needing and providing care. This article reports explanations of Alzheimer's from the perspectives of African American family caregivers and sufferers. Data were collected from thirty-six families using participant observation and focus group interview…
How do we Talk to Each other? Writing Qualitative Research for Quantitative Readers
The growth of qualitative research holds the potential for vastly enriching our understanding of phenomena in the health sciences. However, the potential of this trend is hampered by a widespread inability of quantitative and qualitative researchers to talk to each other. The authors' concern in this area grows out of our experience reviewing small grant applications for the National Institute on Aging, where they frequently find qualitative rese…
Back to Normal: Gender and Disaster
Our earlier studies of Hurricane Andrew focused on the destruction of everyday life during the crisis itself and the reconstruction of a taken-for-granted world during the recovery period; this paper examines the significance of gender in these processes. The abrupt loss of taken-for-granted reality occasioned by the storm involved only a slight and momentary disruption of gender roles. The resilience of these roles can be understood only if gend…
Negotiated Validity in Collaborative Ethnography
This article is an attempt to reconstruct and analyze the process of conducting a collaborative, interpretive study of the experience of Hurricane Andrew. Study data consist of accounts, including in-depth and focus-group interviews, collected in the months following the storm. The current inquiry addresses validity, with a focus on the impact of the investigators' biographies and theoretical orientations on the collection and analysis of qualita…
The Reconstruction of Everyday Life: Experiencing Hurricane Andrew
This is an ethnographic account based on interviews collected from people who rebuilt their lives after the devastation caused by Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 in Dade County, Florida. Three themes describe the recovery period: a time out from everyday life, life in "the zone," and living between two worlds. Time out from everyday life is the initial postdisaster phase and describes the problems encountered in both the physical and the relation…
Discrimination Against Older Women in Health Care
Growing awareness of apparent gaps in health care received by women and men raises concern over possible discrimination. This literature review examines this issue for elderly women, whose health care is obtained in a system that also may be permeated with age discrimination. Physicians tend to spend more time with women and older patients, suggesting that discrimination may not be an issue in the physician-patient relationship or may work in fav…
Ethnicity, Social Support, and Injection Drug Use
There is considerable agreement that the prevalence of diagnosed AIDS cases and the prevalence of HIV infection is greater among African American and Hispanic injection drug users (IDUs) than among Anglo (White, non-Hispanic) IDUs. There is less agreement on why this is the case. This lack of knowledge is related, in part, to the paucity of research on the cultural diversity among IDUs and the impact that cultural differences have on injection ri…
Partners' Health and Retirement Adaptation of Women and Their Husbands
This study is unique in that it concerns the adaptation to retirement of women and their husbands, where both partners are retired. Among the 61 mutually retired spousal pairs studied a person's own health and the family's finances were less important to adaptation than the adjustment to retirement of his or her respective spouse. For retired wives their own higher education also aided adjustment. For retired husbands their retired wives' lower e…
Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle: A Research Annual, Vol. 3: Personal History Through the Life Course
The Relevance of Chronic Illness in the Everyday Lives of Elderly Women
Much past research on the experience of chronic illness and disability is based on the theoretical assumption of illness as a stigmatizing deviance. Among the elderly, however, for whom chronic illness is almost anticipated, there is likely to be less potential for stigma, so that other aspects of physical problems may be more important to an understanding of the illness experience. In-depth interviews were conducted with 29 elderly women sufferi…
Thinking About Data With Grounded Theory
This article examines qualitative data in an era of neoliberalism and focuses on the place of data in grounded theory studies. Neoliberal values of individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, competition, efficiency, and profit have entered the conduct of research. Neoliberalism fosters (a) reifying quantitative logical-deductive research, (b) imposing surveillance of types and sources of data, (c) marginalizing inductive qualitative research, a…
Negotiated Validity in Collaborative Ethnography
This article is an attempt to reconstruct and analyze the process of conducting a collaborative, interpretive study of the experience of Hurricane Andrew. Study data consist of accounts, including in-depth and focus-group interviews, collected in the months following the storm. The current inquiry addresses validity, with a focus on the impact of the investigators' biographies and theoretical orientations on the collection and analysis of qualita…
The Interaction of Drag Queens and Gay Men in Public and Private Spaces
This study examines the issue of internal segregation within the gay community, focusing on the ways by which the drag queen subculture is distanced from larger mainstream gay society. Through the use of institutional ethnography, symbolic interactionism, and a naturalist approach to sociology, the researchers sought to understand the subjective experience of the drag queen, in particular how drag queens perceive their interactions with mainstrea…
She Works Hard for the Money: Drag Queens and the Management of Their Contradictory Status of Celebrity and Marginality
This article reports an ethnographic study of drag queens who perform in Miami Beach. Drag queens are marginalized, both economically and socially. However, drag enables some gay men to emphasize and manipulate aspects of femininity for the means of earning attention and income and garnering situational power. Grounding their empirical findings in symbolic interaction, identity, and performance theories, the authors argue that drag queens employ …
The Reconstruction of Everyday Life: Experiencing Hurricane Andrew
This is an ethnographic account based on interviews collected from people who rebuilt their lives after the devastation caused by Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 in Dade County, Florida. Three themes describe the recovery period: a time out from everyday life, life in "the zone," and living between two worlds. Time out from everyday life is the initial postdisaster phase and describes the problems encountered in both the physical and the relation…
How do we Talk to Each other? Writing Qualitative Research for Quantitative Readers
The growth of qualitative research holds the potential for vastly enriching our understanding of phenomena in the health sciences. However, the potential of this trend is hampered by a widespread inability of quantitative and qualitative researchers to talk to each other. The authors' concern in this area grows out of our experience reviewing small grant applications for the National Institute on Aging, where they frequently find qualitative rese…
The Relevance of Chronic Illness in the Everyday Lives of Elderly Women
Much past research on the experience of chronic illness and disability is based on the theoretical assumption of illness as a stigmatizing deviance. Among the elderly, however, for whom chronic illness is almost anticipated, there is likely to be less potential for stigma, so that other aspects of physical problems may be more important to an understanding of the illness experience. In-depth interviews were conducted with 29 elderly women sufferi…
Back to Normal: Gender and Disaster
Our earlier studies of Hurricane Andrew focused on the destruction of everyday life during the crisis itself and the reconstruction of a taken-for-granted world during the recovery period; this paper examines the significance of gender in these processes. The abrupt loss of taken-for-granted reality occasioned by the storm involved only a slight and momentary disruption of gender roles. The resilience of these roles can be understood only if gend…
Living with Dementia: Lay Definitions of Alzheimer's Disease among African American Caregivers and Sufferers
While the medical world aggressively pursues scientific knowledge about Alzheimer's disease, sufferers and caregivers live with this ailment, not as patients, but as people going about their lives, needing and providing care. This article reports explanations of Alzheimer's from the perspectives of African American family caregivers and sufferers. Data were collected from thirty-six families using participant observation and focus group interview…
Chronic Illness and Disability
Chronic illness lasts. A chronic illness has a lengthy duration, uncertain outcome, and unpredictable episodes, often with intrusive symptoms and intermittent or progressive disability. Having a chronic illness poses life problems such as following a medical regimen, managing ordinary responsibilities, and experiencing stigma and discrimination. A disease, in contrast, may remain silent for years without eliciting a diagnosis or causing noticeabl…
Change in Student Physicians' Views on Authority Relationships with Patients
Bebe Lavin, Marie Haug, Linda Liska Belgrave, Naomi Breslau, Change in Student Physicians' Views on Authority Relationships with Patients, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 258-272
Globalisation and medicine in Trinidad
In a qualitative study of urban Trinidadians who work in the medical industry, the concept of medical globalisation was provisionally analysed. Two research questions were addressed: what is globalisation, in the context of mainstream medicine, and how is this process manifested in everyday practices? Four fundamental principles of medical globalisation emerged from in-depth interviews and analysis of observational materials: (1) the notion of hi…
Ethnicity, Social Support, and Injection Drug Use
There is considerable agreement that the prevalence of diagnosed AIDS cases and the prevalence of HIV infection is greater among African American and Hispanic injection drug users (IDUs) than among Anglo (White, non-Hispanic) IDUs. There is less agreement on why this is the case. This lack of knowledge is related, in part, to the paucity of research on the cultural diversity among IDUs and the impact that cultural differences have on injection ri…
The Life Course Metaphor: Implications for Biography and Interpretive Research
This paper reviews qualitative research in the United States, highlighting the ways research has changed in the era of the third age. With growing attention to positive and uplifting aspects of aging, qualitative research has played a critical role in the exploration of the ways in which older adults are engaging in meaningful ways with others. We describe two key methodological approaches that have been important to examining positive aspects of…
Navigating the Drinking Self: A Qualitative Study of Beer Consumption Among the Working-Poor in Botswana
Alcohol consumption studies in sub-Saharan Africa have largely focused on social control and regulatory mechanisms in specific settings without particular reference to how drinkers negotiate and navigate their drinking selves. Existing studies do not give enough attention to how consumers enact, make sense and experience drinking in light of state regulatory efforts. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach among twenty (20) beer drinkers,…
Mental Health and the Elderly: Factors in Stability and Change Over Time
Marie Haug, Linda Liska Belgrave, Brian Gratton, Mental Health and the Elderly: Factors in Stability and Change Over Time, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 100-115
Mental Health and the Elderly: Factors in Stability and Change Over Time
Marie Haug, Linda Liska Belgrave, Brian Gratton, Mental Health and the Elderly: Factors in Stability and Change Over Time, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 100-115
Change in Student Physicians' Views on Authority Relationships with Patients
Bebe Lavin, Marie Haug, Linda Liska Belgrave, Naomi Breslau, Change in Student Physicians' Views on Authority Relationships with Patients, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 258-272
Sociology
The Relevance of Chronic Illness in the Everyday Lives of Elderly Women
Much past research on the experience of chronic illness and disability is based on the theoretical assumption of illness as a stigmatizing deviance. Among the elderly, however, for whom chronic illness is almost anticipated, there is likely to be less potential for stigma, so that other aspects of physical problems may be more important to an understanding of the illness experience. In-depth interviews were conducted with 29 elderly women sufferi…
Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle: A Research Annual, Vol. 3: Personal History Through the Life Course
Partners' Health and Retirement Adaptation of Women and Their Husbands
This study is unique in that it concerns the adaptation to retirement of women and their husbands, where both partners are retired. Among the 61 mutually retired spousal pairs studied a person's own health and the family's finances were less important to adaptation than the adjustment to retirement of his or her respective spouse. For retired wives their own higher education also aided adjustment. For retired husbands their retired wives' lower e…
Discrimination Against Older Women in Health Care
Growing awareness of apparent gaps in health care received by women and men raises concern over possible discrimination. This literature review examines this issue for elderly women, whose health care is obtained in a system that also may be permeated with age discrimination. Physicians tend to spend more time with women and older patients, suggesting that discrimination may not be an issue in the physician-patient relationship or may work in fav…
Ethnicity, Social Support, and Injection Drug Use
There is considerable agreement that the prevalence of diagnosed AIDS cases and the prevalence of HIV infection is greater among African American and Hispanic injection drug users (IDUs) than among Anglo (White, non-Hispanic) IDUs. There is less agreement on why this is the case. This lack of knowledge is related, in part, to the paucity of research on the cultural diversity among IDUs and the impact that cultural differences have on injection ri…
Negotiated Validity in Collaborative Ethnography
This article is an attempt to reconstruct and analyze the process of conducting a collaborative, interpretive study of the experience of Hurricane Andrew. Study data consist of accounts, including in-depth and focus-group interviews, collected in the months following the storm. The current inquiry addresses validity, with a focus on the impact of the investigators' biographies and theoretical orientations on the collection and analysis of qualita…
The Reconstruction of Everyday Life: Experiencing Hurricane Andrew
This is an ethnographic account based on interviews collected from people who rebuilt their lives after the devastation caused by Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 in Dade County, Florida. Three themes describe the recovery period: a time out from everyday life, life in "the zone," and living between two worlds. Time out from everyday life is the initial postdisaster phase and describes the problems encountered in both the physical and the relation…
Back to Normal: Gender and Disaster
Our earlier studies of Hurricane Andrew focused on the destruction of everyday life during the crisis itself and the reconstruction of a taken-for-granted world during the recovery period; this paper examines the significance of gender in these processes. The abrupt loss of taken-for-granted reality occasioned by the storm involved only a slight and momentary disruption of gender roles. The resilience of these roles can be understood only if gend…
How do we Talk to Each other? Writing Qualitative Research for Quantitative Readers
The growth of qualitative research holds the potential for vastly enriching our understanding of phenomena in the health sciences. However, the potential of this trend is hampered by a widespread inability of quantitative and qualitative researchers to talk to each other. The authors' concern in this area grows out of our experience reviewing small grant applications for the National Institute on Aging, where they frequently find qualitative rese…
Living with Dementia: Lay Definitions of Alzheimer's Disease among African American Caregivers and Sufferers
While the medical world aggressively pursues scientific knowledge about Alzheimer's disease, sufferers and caregivers live with this ailment, not as patients, but as people going about their lives, needing and providing care. This article reports explanations of Alzheimer's from the perspectives of African American family caregivers and sufferers. Data were collected from thirty-six families using participant observation and focus group interview…
The Interaction of Drag Queens and Gay Men in Public and Private Spaces
This study examines the issue of internal segregation within the gay community, focusing on the ways by which the drag queen subculture is distanced from larger mainstream gay society. Through the use of institutional ethnography, symbolic interactionism, and a naturalist approach to sociology, the researchers sought to understand the subjective experience of the drag queen, in particular how drag queens perceive their interactions with mainstrea…
Globalisation and medicine in Trinidad
In a qualitative study of urban Trinidadians who work in the medical industry, the concept of medical globalisation was provisionally analysed. Two research questions were addressed: what is globalisation, in the context of mainstream medicine, and how is this process manifested in everyday practices? Four fundamental principles of medical globalisation emerged from in-depth interviews and analysis of observational materials: (1) the notion of hi…
She Works Hard for the Money: Drag Queens and the Management of Their Contradictory Status of Celebrity and Marginality
This article reports an ethnographic study of drag queens who perform in Miami Beach. Drag queens are marginalized, both economically and socially. However, drag enables some gay men to emphasize and manipulate aspects of femininity for the means of earning attention and income and garnering situational power. Grounding their empirical findings in symbolic interaction, identity, and performance theories, the authors argue that drag queens employ …
Qualitative Interviewing and Grounded Theory Analysis
Meaning of Political Controversy in the Classroom: A Dialogue Across The Podium
The abstract value of academic freedom is enjoyed (or not) in concrete settings, as interactional and emergent experiences. We examine classroom political controversy in our experiences, understandings, and values, using grounded theory methods and collective autoethnography by a team of five teachers and students. Our data were generated through electronic and face-to-face dialogues. Our analysis, guided by a symbolic interactionist and construc…
Modern Symbolic Interaction Theory and Health
Living with HIV and Dying with Aids: Diversity, Inequality and Human Rights in the Global Pandemic
Chronic Illness and Disability
Chronic illness lasts. A chronic illness has a lengthy duration, uncertain outcome, and unpredictable episodes, often with intrusive symptoms and intermittent or progressive disability. Having a chronic illness poses life problems such as following a medical regimen, managing ordinary responsibilities, and experiencing stigma and discrimination. A disease, in contrast, may remain silent for years without eliciting a diagnosis or causing noticeabl…
Grounded Theory
Grounded theory is a general methodology with systematic guidelines for gathering and analyzing data to generate middle‐range theory. The name “grounded theory” mirrors its fundamental premise that researchers can and should develop theory from rigorous analyses of empirical data. The analytic process consists of coding data; developing, checking, and integrating theoretical categories; and writing analytic narratives throughout inquiry. Barney G…
Self
Although the self exists in social life, common definitions of the self accentuate its subjective side: the qualities, attributes, values, feelings, and moral sentiments that a person assumes to be his or her own. The social sources of self make subjectivity possible because the person's experience of feelings, images, and interpretations emerges and takes on meaning through social interaction
Thinking About Data With Grounded Theory
This article examines qualitative data in an era of neoliberalism and focuses on the place of data in grounded theory studies. Neoliberal values of individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, competition, efficiency, and profit have entered the conduct of research. Neoliberalism fosters (a) reifying quantitative logical-deductive research, (b) imposing surveillance of types and sources of data, (c) marginalizing inductive qualitative research, a…
Living with HIV and Dying with Aids: Diversity, Inequality and Human Rights in the Global Pandemic
Sociology (22 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Social science (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)