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Qualitative Sociology Volume 20, Number 1 Spring 1997 SPECIAL ISSUE Visual Methods in Sociological Analysis Steven J. Gold, Guest Editor ARTICLES Introduction Steven J. Gold “I Didn’t Leave Y’all on Purpose”: HIV-Infected Mothers’ Videotaped Legacies for Their Children Donna B. Barnes, Susan Taylor-Brown, and Lori Wiener Grounding Visual Sociology Research in Shooting Scripts Charles S. Suchar Visualizing Structure: Reading Surfaces of Social Life Douglas Harper Unspoken Diversity: Cultural Differences in Gestures Dane Archer REVIEW ESSAYS Women, Children and Welfare Policy in the US: Past and Present Joya Misra Resisting and Reshaping Economic Change Adam S. Weinberg Culture and Volition in Organizational Decision-Making Robert F. Freeland Cover Photo: Japanese Gesture for Homosexuality by Dane Archer Qualitative Sociology Volume 20, Number 2 Summer 1997 SPECIAL ISSUE Families and Implications for Social Policy ARTICLES Editor’s Note Rosanna Hertz Introduction: Windows on New Family Forms: Insights from Feminist and Familist Perspectives Janet Zollinger Giele A. Experiments with Family Boundaries Does Biology Matter?: Lesbian Couples’ Transition to Parenthood and Their Division of Labor Renate Reimann Kinship Strategies and Self-Sufficiency Among Single Mothers by Choice: Post Modern Family Ties Rosanna Hertz and Faith I. T. Ferguson B. Two-Parent Experiments with Gender Roles Contextualizing the Employment Decisions of New Mothers Susan Walzer As the Twig Is Bent: Children Reared in Feminist Households Barbara J. Risman and Kristen Myers C. New Relations Between Family, Community and the State “Trust Your Instincts”: Racial Ethnic and Class-Based Preferences in Employed Mothers’ Childcare Choices Lynet Uttal African American Family and Parenting Strategies in Impoverished Neighborhoods Robin L. Jarrett The Other Side of Help: Negative Effects in the Help-Seeking Processes of Abused Women Lora Bex Lempert Work/Family Policy Stratification: The Examples of Family Support and Family Leave Sherry Wexler Cover Photo: Alyssa Thomas and her mom, Rosanna Hertz Qualitative Sociology Volume 20, Number 3 Fall 1997 CONTENTS Looking the Other Way: The Institutional Accommodation of Tree Theft Michael R. Pendleton Reflections on the Researcher-Researched Relationship: A Woman Interviewing Men Terry Arendell Georg Simmel and Erving Goffman: Legitimators of the Sociological Investigation of Human Experience Murray S. Davis A SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION Careers Everett C. Hughes RESEARCH NOTE Animal Rights Talk: Moral Debate over the Internet Harold A. Herzog, Jr, Beth Dinoff, and Jessica R. Page REVIEW ESSAYS Case Studies and Transcendent Children Peter K. Manning Ethnography Bovnd: Taking Stock of Organizational Case Studies Vicki Smith Occupational Gender in Women’s and Men’s Occupations Rosemary Wright Cover Photo by Kenneth B. Hertz, taken in Tokyo, 1984 Qualitative Sociology Volume 20, Number 4 Winter 1997 SPECIAL ISSUE Twentieth Anniversary Issue Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life Barry Glassner, Guest Editor ARTICLES Introduction Barry Glassner Part I: Public Places Not Even a Day in the Life Candace West Earn as You Learn: Connections Between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life Clinton R. Sanders It’s Boring: Notes on the Meanings of Boredom in Everyday Life Peter Conrad Enough Already! The Pervasiveness of Warnings in Everyday Life Shulamit Reinharz Part Il: Family Spaces Five Minutes Peter K. Manning “Are We Alone?” Marjorie L. DeVault The Personal, the Sociological, and the Intersection of the Two Lynn Davidman Part II: Work Worlds Feeling at Home at Work: Life in Academic Departments Barrie Thorne and Arlie Russell Hochschild On the Non-Negotiable in Sociological Life Robert Dingwall Making Sense and Making a Difference: Murder and College Administration Derral Cheatwood Is There a Philosopher in the House? Jonathan D. Moreno Essaying the Personal: Making Sociological Stories Stick Sherryl Kleinman Talks Between Teachers Shirah Hecht and Howard S. Becker Cover Photo: “Kitchen” by Dianne Hagaman