scholarly journals Five Challenges of Designing Disability Income Support for People with Mental Illnesses: A Qualitative Case Study of Australia and Ontario

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Ashley McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Disability Income ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

In most disability income support (DIS) programs, mental illnesses is the fastest growing category of illness, but it is unknown how policy designers consider this vulnerable group. Forty-five DIS policy designers in Australia and Ontario explained how they consider mental illnesses when designing policy. Using a grounded theory approach, five challenges emerged: validating duration, proving an illness, (un)differentiating mental illnesses, managing mental illnesses, and separating the person from the illness. Each challenge is described and compared across Australia and Ontario. These challenges provide a framework for other settings to determine how well their DIS policies have considered mental illnesses in policy design.

Mental illnesses are not an ‘ideal type’ of disability for disability income support: Perceptions of policymakers in Australia and Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Mcallister
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Medical Illness ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Income Support ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Disability Income ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Aim: This article aims to explore how policymakers conceptualise a person suitable for disability income support (DIS) and how this compares across two settings – Australia and Canada. Methods: A constructivist grounded theory approach was used; 45 policymakers in Australia and Canada were interviewed between March 2012 and September 2013. All policymakers are or were influential in the design or assessment of DIS. Results: Results found that the policymakers in both jurisdictions define a suitable person as having as an ‘ideal type’ of disability with five features – visibility, diagnostic proof, permanency, recognition as a medical illness and perceived as externally caused. Many of the policymakers described how mental illnesses are not an ‘ideal type’ of disability for DIS by juxtaposing the features of mental illnesses against physical illnesses. As such, mental illnesses were labelled imperfect disabilities and physical illnesses as ‘ideal type’ for DIS. Conclusions: The rise of DIS recipients has divided the once protected ‘deserving’ category of the disabled into more (‘ideal type’ of disability) and less deserving (imperfect disability). Such conceptualisations are important because these categories can influence the allocation of welfare resources.

scholarly journals A grounded theory approach to assess indoor soundscape in historic religious spaces of Anatolian culture: A case study on Hacı Bayram Mosque

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semiha Yilmazer ◽  
Volkan Acun
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Subjective Responses ◽  
Spatial Function ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study presents a research that is concerned with the indoor soundscape in historical mosque. Hacı Bayram Mosque and its surroundings area of Hamamönü has been selected as the research site due to being the historical centre of Ankara. Although there are studies concerned with the acoustical characteristics of mosques, there is not enough research focusing on user’s expectation and interpretation of the indoor soundscape within a historical space. This study adopts the user-focused grounded theory to capture individuals’ auditory sensation and interpretation of the indoor soundscape within a historical mosque. In-depth interviews are held with congregation of the mosque and with the individuals sitting around the surrounding area. Based on their subjective responses, a theoretical framework is generated to gain an insight on the factors that affect individuals understanding and expectation from mosques. The conceptual framework generated through grounded theory shows how indoor soundscape may influence their individuals’ response to the physical environment of the mosque showing the association between the soundscape elements, spatial function and place identity.

‘Let Me Entertain You: Researching the ‘Thirtysomething’ Generation’

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This paper explores the limits and possibilities of research in the sociology of generation by taking the ‘thirtysomething’ cohort as a case study. It addresses a number of critical research issues, namely: how does one identify the parameters of a generation? Are there different sorts of generations, and if so how can this fact be established? And how can one deal with the internal diversity of generations, both in terms of their stratification and in the lived experiences of its members? The empirical research for this study was conducted using focus groups, and analysis loosely follows a grounded theory approach. In the paper, I reflect upon how the context of doing research in an ‘entertainment and consumer society’ might affect the research process and its findings. This leads me to conclude that research methods themselves have an historicizing character, and that sociology also has a generational flavour.

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