Toward a Theory of Illness: The Illness-Constellation Model
Janice M. Morse 33 TOWARD A THEORY OF ILLNESS: THE ILLNESS-CONSTELLATION MODEL1 Get the habit of analysis—analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. —Frank Lloyd…
Concept Comparison
Janice M. Morse 19 CONCEPT COMPARISON Why is a raven like a writing desk? —Lewis Carroll (1865/2010, p. 82) Conceptual comparison is a method used to delineate allied concepts. It…
Self-Transcendence and Self-Reformulation: One Concept or Two?
Patricia L. Eldershaw and Janice M. Morse 20 SELF-TRANSCENDENCE AND SELF-REFORMULATION: ONE CONCEPT OR TWO? I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but…
Qualitative Strategies for Concept Development
Janice M. Morse 12 QUALITATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Concepts shape how we think about the patients, families, and communities with whom we work. They direct our observations and our…
Qualitative Structured Techniques
Janice M. Morse 15 QUALITATIVE STRUCTURED TECHNIQUES Analysis of any kind involves a way of thinking. It refers to the systematic examination of something to determine its parts, the relationship…
Linking and Ordering Concepts
Janice M. Morse 22 LINKING AND ORDERING CONCEPTS The First Rule of Conceptualization It must be possible And it should be probable And then If it can be verified, even…
Developing Quantitative Theory
Janice M. Morse 27 DEVELOPING QUANTITATIVE THEORY Theories cannot be verified absolutely and forever; however, they can be falsified—i.e., they can be proven to be wrong—given a certain degree of…
Research Using Pragmatic Utility
Janice M. Morse 18 RESEARCH USING PRAGMATIC UTILITY Researchers who disagree about facts will often use concepts in different ways, rightly so. After all concepts are not designed to “fit”…
The Prototypical Method
Janice M. Morse 16 THE PROTOTYPICAL METHOD Q: How many people of a certain classification does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: More than one. Recall the definition…
Concepts in Context
Janice M. Morse 7 CONCEPTS IN CONTEXT … the important innovations in social science are conceptual, a way of seeing the social world, and that the most important innovations that…
