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I-poems are one of a range of possible ways of analysing in-depth qualitative data that contain first-person statements. In contrast to a stress on the creation of meaning through qualitative analysis, however, its proponents pose I-poems more as concerned with accessing meaning in relation to self. The particular focus is on identifying how research participants or correspondents talk or write about themselves - their first-person voices," and interpreting their senses of self or subjectivities. After first reviewing the development of the I-poems method, this article details the steps involved in this method of analysis and then discusses uses of and issues associated with I-poems.

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The life and work of Ada Eliot Sheffield (1869-1943) provide an exemplar case study of sociological inquiry in and for social work. Her early protoconstructionism imbued her interrelated understanding of culture, the social situation, and personality. This in turn fashioned, and was patterned by, her thinking and practice in regard to work with and writing about cases. The relevance of this largely forgotten womandismissed by the 1930s' social work establishment as a regrettable "sociological phase" and disregarded by sociologists beyond the first generation at the University of Chicagois threefold. First, to a notable but not exhaustive degree her methodology was developed and applied in constant interchange with her wider understanding of society and the roles of social actors thereinnot exhaustive, because she made major contributions ...

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