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1. Bridging the Divide Between Methods and Technology: Linking up Software to Qualitative Methods Instruction.

Author

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy, Belcher-Schepis, Jeannette, and Xiaoxia Chen

Subjects
SOCIAL movements, HUMAN behavior, SOCIAL history, SOCIAL change, SOCIAL psychology, SOCIOLOGY
Abstract

This paper discusses the results of an exploratory study of interviews and focus groups with graduate students who have engaged in or are currently engaging in qualitative methods learning, instruction, or research projects. In addition, we also present data from a case-study example highlighting the experiences of students who attended a five-week instructional workshop on integrating qualitative data analysis software into qualitative research. We track individual student's workshop experiences through the evaluation of students' memos about their learning of computer software. We specifically focus on issues dealing with the timing of students' introduction to the software, the proper approaches to teaching, the curricula development, and ultimately, how to best assist students in acquiring the knowledge, skills and attitudes that would result in the successful integration of qualitative data analysis software into their understanding of the qualitative research process. Although HyperRESEARCH, computer software tool for qualitative analysis is emphasized in this project, the pedagogical discussion presented in the conclusion of this article can be translated to the instruction of any of the various qualitative data analysis software programs currently on the market. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006

2. Manhattan Madness: The Social Movement of Mental Illness.

Author

Hartung, Frank E.

Subjects
MENTAL health, PEOPLE with mental illness, MENTAL health insurance, SOCIAL sciences, HUMAN behavior, SOCIAL change, SOCIAL movements
Abstract

The title of this study is that given to the review of a book in a recent issue of Commentary. It also refers to an important contemporary social movement, namely, mental illness. This is a movement that accords to irrationalism a constantly increasing respectability. An enormous increase in the kinds of conduct classified as irrational has resulted in the past few decades from the work of some of the most highly educated and intellectual students of human behavior. One corollary is a decrease in the kinds of behavior classified as rational. This has been accompanied by a violent attack upon the concepts of reason and individual responsibility, and by attempts to substitute the concepts of irresponsibility and exculpation. These attempts have been successful to a great degree. This paper will concern itself with two problems that mark this social movement. The first problem is that of definition and counting. The second is that of resolving the paradox of irrationalism. It would be tedious to summarize the studies of the past twentyfive years that show that the interest in mental illness is a social movement rather than a scientific development. One of the first, by Kingsley Davis, showed that it possesses a characteristic essential to any social movement. Its proponents conceive it to be a panacea. As a social movement it is in many respects the functional equivalent of religion in the system of traditional middle-class values. The movement is today continuing to propagate middle-class values and ethics under the guise of science. It presents the prototype of the middle-class or upper-class person as being in all important respects equivalent to that of the mentally healthy person. Thus it is not to be wondered at that when psychiatrists and other clinicians (who are professional and upper class ) interview and otherwise "examine" lower-class children, especially delinquent boys, they find that the boys are "emotionally disturbed" or "mentally ill" in some form and to some degree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1963
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