Exploring Clinical Methods for Social Research.

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Introduction - Kenwyn K Smith and David N Berg PART ONE: CLINICAL ISSUES The Clinical Demands of Research Methods - David N Berg and Kenwyn K Smith Taking Our Selves Seriously as Researchers - Clayton P Alderfer The Hermeneutic Turn and the Single Case Study in Psychoanalysis - Marshall Edelson Commentary PART TWO: CLINICAL UNDERSTANDING Action Usable Knowledge - Cortlandt Cammann Epistemological Problems in Researching Human Relationships - Kenwyn K Smith Looking at Research Ideas as Behavioral Data - Stewart E Perry Feminist Distrust - Shulamit Reinharz Problems of Context and Content in Sociological Work What Is Clinical Method? - Rodney L Lowman Commentary PART THREE: CLINICAL INVOLVEMENT On Seeking One's Own Clinical Voice - J Richard Hackman A Personal Account Anxiety in Research Relationships - David N Berg Self-Full Research - Philip H Mirvis and Meryl Reis Louis Working Through the Self as Instrument in Organizational Research On the Researcher's Group Memberships - Kathy E Kram Virtuous Subjectivity - Alan Peshkin In the Participant-Observer's I's Commentary PART FOUR: CLINICAL METHODS Reconstructing an Organization's History - Valerie M Simmons Systematic Distortion in Retrospective Data History in the Here and Now - Jonathon H Gilette The Development of a Historical Perspective Using Participant-Observation to Construct a Life History - Helen Swick Perry On Studying Emotionally Hot Topics - Robert I Sutton and Susan J Schurman Lessons from an Investigation of Organizational Death Assessing Local Causality in Qualitative Research - A Michael Huberman and Matthew B Miles Commentary

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