Catherine Kohler Riessman is Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston College, and an Emerita Professor at Boston University. She serves as a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University. Riessman has authored four books and numerous articles and book chapters in medical sociology and qualitative methodologies.

• PART ONE: GROUNDED THEORYIntroductionManaging Chronic Illness Alone in Later Life - Denise BurnetteSisyphus at WorkExamining Social Work/Physician Collaboration - Julie S Abramson and Terry MizrahiAn Application of Grounded Theory MethodsExplorations of Pregnancy and Choice in a High-Tech Age - Robin GreggPART TWO: NARRATIVE APPROACHESIntroductionPrivate Pain and Public Behaviors - Robin A RobinsonSexual Abuse and Delinquent GirlsWoman Battering as a Marital Act - Margareta HydénInterviewing and Analysis in ContextMaking Sense of Marital Violence - Catherine Kohler RiessmanOne Woman′s NarrativePART THREE: SUBJECTIVITY MATTERSIntroductionDisparities in the Social Construction of Long-Term Care - Rhoda Hurst RojianiWelfare Workers′ Response to Homeless Welfare Applicants - Cate SolomonReflections on a Journey - Cheryl HydeA Research StoryModeling Theory from Fiction and Autobiography - Suzanne E England

Catherine Kohler Riessman is Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston College, and an Emerita Professor at Boston University. She serves as a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University. Riessman has authored four books and numerous articles and book chapters in medical sociology and qualitative methodologies.

• PART ONE: GROUNDED THEORYIntroductionManaging Chronic Illness Alone in Later Life - Denise BurnetteSisyphus at WorkExamining Social Work/Physician Collaboration - Julie S Abramson and Terry MizrahiAn Application of Grounded Theory MethodsExplorations of Pregnancy and Choice in a High-Tech Age - Robin GreggPART TWO: NARRATIVE APPROACHESIntroductionPrivate Pain and Public Behaviors - Robin A RobinsonSexual Abuse and Delinquent GirlsWoman Battering as a Marital Act - Margareta HydénInterviewing and Analysis in ContextMaking Sense of Marital Violence - Catherine Kohler RiessmanOne Woman′s NarrativePART THREE: SUBJECTIVITY MATTERSIntroductionDisparities in the Social Construction of Long-Term Care - Rhoda Hurst RojianiWelfare Workers′ Response to Homeless Welfare Applicants - Cate SolomonReflections on a Journey - Cheryl HydeA Research StoryModeling Theory from Fiction and Autobiography - Suzanne E England