books by Ian Dey (grounding gildredge friendly)

books by Ian Dey

books:

Grounding Grounded Theory: Guidelines for Qualitative Inquiry
Ian Dey

Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 1999

Professor Dey's persuasive, instructive, critical, engaging, and often humorous investigation places many elements of grounded theory under close scrutiny. In searching out the methodological principles on which grounded theory is built, he reveals its main features as a qualitative research methodology for social research and the issues fundamental to understanding it. He also highlights the disagreements between the originators of grounded ...

Family Policy (The Gildredge Social Policy Series)
Ian Dey, Fran Wasoff

Routledge, 2000

Family Policy focuses on the main family activities that are of concern in social policy and social work. This book explores how families behave and questions the implications for policies and practice. Perceptions of and responses to family 'pathologies' - teenage pregnancies, family breakdown, family poverty and violence - are examined. Core issues in family policy are considered, to help students to understand and evaluate the family ...

Qualitative Data Analysis: A User Friendly Guide for Social Scientists
Ian Dey

Routledge, 1993

Learning how to analyze qualitative data by computer can be fun. That is one assumption underpinning this introduction to qualitative analysis, which takes account of how computing techniques have enhanced and transformed the field. The author provides a practical discussion of the main procedures for analyzing qualitative data by computer, with most of its examples taken from humour or everyday life. He examines ways in which computers can ...