Browsing Qualitative Sociology Review 2018 Volume XIV Issue 1 by Title
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“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The reading practices of women, mediated by a prison library in Portugal, constituted an interesting case study. In Santa Cruz do Bispo prison, female prisoners were increasingly aged and excluded from social groups, less ... -
In Keeping with Family Tradition: American Second-Wave Feminists and the Social Construction of Political Legacies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Through an interpretive lens that borrows from feminist postmodernist perspectives on identity and cognitive sociology, the manuscript utilizes in-depth interview data from 33 women active in the American second-wave ... -
Intervention Tales: Talk, Documents, and “Engagement” on a Wage Subsidy Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork on a wage subsidy project for NEETs in London, this article examines how talk and documents are used to make sense of caseloads and clients. The article draws attention to the way that ... -
Masculinity and Immigrant Health Practices: How Male Kurdish Immigrants to the United States Think about and Practice Health
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Researchers have identified a host of factors that influence immigrant men’s understanding of and commitment to health, but overall the scholarship is still unsettled, in large part because the experiences of immigrant ... -
The Timing of Pregnancy: Women’s Interpretations of Planned and Unplanned Pregnancy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)In this paper, we apply the concept of timing to explore the meaning that women attach towards planned and unplanned pregnancy. We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with 42 Canadian women who were pregnant ...