Susanne Langer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3640840 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susanne Langer |
| PRENOMES | Susanne |
| SOBRENOME | Langer |
| ASSINATURA | LANGER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Feeling and Form (1953)
Suicide and Its Nexus
In Indonesia, suicide research has largely overlooked structural factors at the meso and macro levels, whether as primary causes, contributing factors, or considerations for prevention strategies. The dominance of psychological and psychiatric approaches has marginalized sociological perspectives, limiting a more holistic understanding of suicide. Existing heuristic models primarily frame suicide as a consequence of mental health disorders or eco…
On the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers in the age of cognitive enhancement
Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’ still have to be ‘connected’ between macro-level phenomena (here, the therapeutic ethos and cognitive capitalism), and micro-level phenomena (in this case, cognitive abilities). In this essay, we use Fromm’s notion of social character to theorise diale…
The Impact of Parental Bereavement on Young People
A qualitative approach was used to explore how online web forums might facilitate recovery and the process of coping. Ten online web forums written by young people who have personally experienced the death of a parent formed the data of this study. Previous research suggests forum users do not receive the supportive reactions from face-to-face interactions that they desire. Thematic analysis found that forums created an environment where young pe…
Interviews in Qualitative Research (2nd Edition)
Multimodality, visual methods and lived experience
Paula Reavey is Professor of Psychology and Mental Health at London South Bank University. This interview took place at the Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) and History & Philosophy of Psychology (HPP) joint 2019 conference at Cardiff Metropolitan University, where Paula led a workshop on visual methods and delivered a keynote speech. Best known for her pathbreaking work on visual methods and multimodality (Reavey, 2011), she has also dis…
‘I wouldn't push that further because I don't want to lose her’
BACKGROUND: Health outcomes for long-term conditions (LTCs) can be improved by lifestyle, dietary and condition management-related behaviour change. Primary care is an important setting for behaviour change work. Practitioners have identified barriers to this work, but there is little evidence examining practices of behaviour change in primary care consultations and how patients and practitioners perceive these practices. OBJECTIVE: To examine ho…
Short Break and Respite Services for Disabled Children in England
Researchers, health and social care workers often seek to understand the perspectives of children; but gathering views directly from children can present difficulties. Parents are often asked to provide accounts of children's feelings or opinions on the assumption that their proxy reports are accurate and unproblematic. This qualitative thematic analysis of open‐question responses from 352 parents and 73 disabled children examines their accounts …
Why do patients with long-term conditions use unscheduled care? A qualitative literature review
Unscheduled care (UC) refers to non-routine face-to-face care, such as accident and emergency care, out-of-hours care, or walk-in centres. Current health service policy aims to reduce its use. Unscheduled care is common in people with long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and coronary heart disease. By reviewing qualitative research literature, we aimed to understand the breadth of psychosocial and o…
Do short break and respite services for families with a disabled child in England make a difference to siblings? A qualitative analysis of sibling and parent responses
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
Suicide Notes as Social Documents
In this chapter our focus is on the suicide notes that nearly half of the files contained. In keeping with the sociological autopsy approach we treat the notes not as straightforward indicators of mental illness, but as culturally-specific artefacts that bring into relief the role of social relationships in instances of suicide. We will approach the notes as a means of connection, as well as drawing attention to their content, structure and mater…
Suicide Case Files as Sites of Identity Creation
In this chapter we want to use the artefacts that constitute the inquest file to draw out some of the assumptions inherent in the inquest process regarding documents and identities. Specifically, we are concerned with relationships: how they extend into documents and how they constitute different kinds of persons and identities, during someone’s lifetime and beyond. We will do so by drawing on recent ethnographic approaches to the study of docume…
The Sociology of Suicide — A Critical Appreciation
There is currently little dialogue between sociology and suicide studies, which may seem surprising given the central role that Durkheim’s (2002 [1897]) Suicide played in the construction of sociology as a distinct discipline. Although a series of influential studies followed in the wake of Durkheim’s, emanating from various schools of thought, suicide has ceased to be of much interest to mainstream sociology. While contemporary sociologists have…
Repertoires of Action
The previous two chapters have both shown how the contents of suicide files are shaped by the broader social context in which the suicide occurs. Our focus in this chapter shifts as we begin to use the contents of the files to explore the lived experiences of suicidal individuals and the circumstances in which suicides take place. Ultimately we hope to be able to say something about causality though, in so doing, we will retain our interest in me…
What is a Sociological Autopsy?
The dichotomies and oppositions that permeate the sociology of suicide have given rise to very different research strategies, though quantitative approaches in the Durkheimian tradition remain dominant. Our emphasis on the need to transcend artificial divisions in understanding, whether they be based on agency and structure, the individual and the social, psychology and sociology, carries over into the methodological realm. The central problem he…
Lessons for Prevention
Our aim in writing this book was to disseminate both the method and the findings of the sociological autopsy study. We begin this final chapter by summarising what we see as the book’s contribution and then we address the question of suicide prevention, including the ways in which our sociological autopsy study can potentially inform prevention. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyw…
When Things Fall Apart — Suicide and the Life-Course
In this final empirical chapter we offer a more objectivist reading than has been provided so far. Detailed quantitative analysis of the 100 cases included in our sociological autopsy is presented alongside a more general assessment of the demography of suicide in England and Wales. What we say here should be read in light of what we have already said in earlier chapters, not least because this should guard against the dangers of reifying the rel…
An Anthropology of Welfare
This issue of Anthropology in Action is dedicated to the study of welfare – understood as a social, culturally specific and long-term process of transformation – from an anthropological perspective. But is a study of ‘welfare’ still relevant and is it an appropriate concept to study what counts as a ‘good life’ well-lived? Has comprehensive publicly funded welfare still a role to play, or have collective welfare arrangements and institutions not …
The Impacts of short break provision on families with a disabled child
There are widespread assumptions about the potential impacts of short breaks on family carers and disabled children. This review aims to evaluate the existing international research evidence concerning the impacts of short breaks on families with a disabled child. Electronic literature searches were conducted using ASSIA, PsycInfo, CINAHL, and Web of Science, and requests for information were sent to selected email lists. Of 60 articles or report…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
Just around the corner
The emerging “diabetes epidemic” threatens to affect 366 million people worldwide by 2030. In the UK, almost 2 million people (about 3.9 percent of the population) are currently diagnosed with diabetes and it is estimated that a further 1 million people have the disease but do not realize it. The prevalence of diabetes, its complications and their effects on the lives of those living with diabetes mean that diabetes research has the potential to …
When things fall apart
Articulating Contextualized Knowledge
Calls for increased public participation in science and technology policy are now commonplace and raise challenges for social scientists as well as policy-makers. For social scientists, the practice of public participation raises questions about the methods used by social scientists to collect data and develop the representations of public opinion that inform this new dialogue but also reflect it. In this paper, the difference that different meth…
The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data
The article discusses the effects on the researcher of reading disturbing secondary data (defined here as evidence gathered by someone other than the researcher). The case study is a qualitative sociological autopsy of suicide, and the secondary data-written documents and photographs-are all from case files in a British coroner's office. Following ethnographic detail about the research setting and research process, there is discussion of the dive…
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
When things fall apart
The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data
The article discusses the effects on the researcher of reading disturbing secondary data (defined here as evidence gathered by someone other than the researcher). The case study is a qualitative sociological autopsy of suicide, and the secondary data-written documents and photographs-are all from case files in a British coroner's office. Following ethnographic detail about the research setting and research process, there is discussion of the dive…
Articulating Contextualized Knowledge
Calls for increased public participation in science and technology policy are now commonplace and raise challenges for social scientists as well as policy-makers. For social scientists, the practice of public participation raises questions about the methods used by social scientists to collect data and develop the representations of public opinion that inform this new dialogue but also reflect it. In this paper, the difference that different meth…
Documenting the Quick and the Dead
In keeping with recent critiques of literature on the body and the life course, the argument of this paper is that social identities can, to a certain extent, be constructed post-mortem and in the absence of a living body. The authors make this case with reference to a sociological autopsy study of a hundred suicide case files in a coroner's office in a medium-sized British city. The research draws on ethnographic approaches to the study of docum…
Do short break and respite services for families with a disabled child in England make a difference to siblings? A qualitative analysis of sibling and parent responses
Articulating Contextualized Knowledge
Calls for increased public participation in science and technology policy are now commonplace and raise challenges for social scientists as well as policy-makers. For social scientists, the practice of public participation raises questions about the methods used by social scientists to collect data and develop the representations of public opinion that inform this new dialogue but also reflect it. In this paper, the difference that different meth…
The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data
The article discusses the effects on the researcher of reading disturbing secondary data (defined here as evidence gathered by someone other than the researcher). The case study is a qualitative sociological autopsy of suicide, and the secondary data-written documents and photographs-are all from case files in a British coroner's office. Following ethnographic detail about the research setting and research process, there is discussion of the dive…
Documenting the Quick and the Dead
In keeping with recent critiques of literature on the body and the life course, the argument of this paper is that social identities can, to a certain extent, be constructed post-mortem and in the absence of a living body. The authors make this case with reference to a sociological autopsy study of a hundred suicide case files in a coroner's office in a medium-sized British city. The research draws on ethnographic approaches to the study of docum…
Just around the corner
The emerging “diabetes epidemic” threatens to affect 366 million people worldwide by 2030. In the UK, almost 2 million people (about 3.9 percent of the population) are currently diagnosed with diabetes and it is estimated that a further 1 million people have the disease but do not realize it. The prevalence of diabetes, its complications and their effects on the lives of those living with diabetes mean that diabetes research has the potential to …
When things fall apart
Suicide Notes as Social Documents
In this chapter our focus is on the suicide notes that nearly half of the files contained. In keeping with the sociological autopsy approach we treat the notes not as straightforward indicators of mental illness, but as culturally-specific artefacts that bring into relief the role of social relationships in instances of suicide. We will approach the notes as a means of connection, as well as drawing attention to their content, structure and mater…
Suicide Case Files as Sites of Identity Creation
In this chapter we want to use the artefacts that constitute the inquest file to draw out some of the assumptions inherent in the inquest process regarding documents and identities. Specifically, we are concerned with relationships: how they extend into documents and how they constitute different kinds of persons and identities, during someone’s lifetime and beyond. We will do so by drawing on recent ethnographic approaches to the study of docume…
The Sociology of Suicide — A Critical Appreciation
There is currently little dialogue between sociology and suicide studies, which may seem surprising given the central role that Durkheim’s (2002 [1897]) Suicide played in the construction of sociology as a distinct discipline. Although a series of influential studies followed in the wake of Durkheim’s, emanating from various schools of thought, suicide has ceased to be of much interest to mainstream sociology. While contemporary sociologists have…
Repertoires of Action
The previous two chapters have both shown how the contents of suicide files are shaped by the broader social context in which the suicide occurs. Our focus in this chapter shifts as we begin to use the contents of the files to explore the lived experiences of suicidal individuals and the circumstances in which suicides take place. Ultimately we hope to be able to say something about causality though, in so doing, we will retain our interest in me…
What is a Sociological Autopsy?
The dichotomies and oppositions that permeate the sociology of suicide have given rise to very different research strategies, though quantitative approaches in the Durkheimian tradition remain dominant. Our emphasis on the need to transcend artificial divisions in understanding, whether they be based on agency and structure, the individual and the social, psychology and sociology, carries over into the methodological realm. The central problem he…
Lessons for Prevention
Our aim in writing this book was to disseminate both the method and the findings of the sociological autopsy study. We begin this final chapter by summarising what we see as the book’s contribution and then we address the question of suicide prevention, including the ways in which our sociological autopsy study can potentially inform prevention. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyw…
When Things Fall Apart — Suicide and the Life-Course
In this final empirical chapter we offer a more objectivist reading than has been provided so far. Detailed quantitative analysis of the 100 cases included in our sociological autopsy is presented alongside a more general assessment of the demography of suicide in England and Wales. What we say here should be read in light of what we have already said in earlier chapters, not least because this should guard against the dangers of reifying the rel…
An Anthropology of Welfare
This issue of Anthropology in Action is dedicated to the study of welfare – understood as a social, culturally specific and long-term process of transformation – from an anthropological perspective. But is a study of ‘welfare’ still relevant and is it an appropriate concept to study what counts as a ‘good life’ well-lived? Has comprehensive publicly funded welfare still a role to play, or have collective welfare arrangements and institutions not …
The Impacts of short break provision on families with a disabled child
There are widespread assumptions about the potential impacts of short breaks on family carers and disabled children. This review aims to evaluate the existing international research evidence concerning the impacts of short breaks on families with a disabled child. Electronic literature searches were conducted using ASSIA, PsycInfo, CINAHL, and Web of Science, and requests for information were sent to selected email lists. Of 60 articles or report…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
Do short break and respite services for families with a disabled child in England make a difference to siblings? A qualitative analysis of sibling and parent responses
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
Why do patients with long-term conditions use unscheduled care? A qualitative literature review
Unscheduled care (UC) refers to non-routine face-to-face care, such as accident and emergency care, out-of-hours care, or walk-in centres. Current health service policy aims to reduce its use. Unscheduled care is common in people with long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and coronary heart disease. By reviewing qualitative research literature, we aimed to understand the breadth of psychosocial and o…
Short Break and Respite Services for Disabled Children in England
Researchers, health and social care workers often seek to understand the perspectives of children; but gathering views directly from children can present difficulties. Parents are often asked to provide accounts of children's feelings or opinions on the assumption that their proxy reports are accurate and unproblematic. This qualitative thematic analysis of open‐question responses from 352 parents and 73 disabled children examines their accounts …
‘I wouldn't push that further because I don't want to lose her’
BACKGROUND: Health outcomes for long-term conditions (LTCs) can be improved by lifestyle, dietary and condition management-related behaviour change. Primary care is an important setting for behaviour change work. Practitioners have identified barriers to this work, but there is little evidence examining practices of behaviour change in primary care consultations and how patients and practitioners perceive these practices. OBJECTIVE: To examine ho…
Interviews in Qualitative Research (2nd Edition)
Multimodality, visual methods and lived experience
Paula Reavey is Professor of Psychology and Mental Health at London South Bank University. This interview took place at the Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) and History & Philosophy of Psychology (HPP) joint 2019 conference at Cardiff Metropolitan University, where Paula led a workshop on visual methods and delivered a keynote speech. Best known for her pathbreaking work on visual methods and multimodality (Reavey, 2011), she has also dis…
The Impact of Parental Bereavement on Young People
A qualitative approach was used to explore how online web forums might facilitate recovery and the process of coping. Ten online web forums written by young people who have personally experienced the death of a parent formed the data of this study. Previous research suggests forum users do not receive the supportive reactions from face-to-face interactions that they desire. Thematic analysis found that forums created an environment where young pe…
Suicide and Its Nexus
In Indonesia, suicide research has largely overlooked structural factors at the meso and macro levels, whether as primary causes, contributing factors, or considerations for prevention strategies. The dominance of psychological and psychiatric approaches has marginalized sociological perspectives, limiting a more holistic understanding of suicide. Existing heuristic models primarily frame suicide as a consequence of mental health disorders or eco…
On the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers in the age of cognitive enhancement
Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’ still have to be ‘connected’ between macro-level phenomena (here, the therapeutic ethos and cognitive capitalism), and micro-level phenomena (in this case, cognitive abilities). In this essay, we use Fromm’s notion of social character to theorise diale…
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