This study aims to understand how individuals cope with a family member entering hospice care, how role dynamics and the formation of meaning reveal insights about the process of death, and how dying relates to the hospice organization, hospice administrators, managers, and supervisors, the patient, and surviving family members. The axioms of symbolic interactionism provide both a useful framew...

Article extracted from a Master's dissertation whose objective was to characterize the interaction of nurses with nursing diagnoses in neurosurgical oncology, considering behaviors, expressions, attitudes and practices. The participants were sixteen nurses who work with equal or more than five years in neurosurgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. The Symbolic Interactionism was used...

Network analysis, especially as it has been understood in relation to the specific methodological approaches of Social Network Analysis (SNA), is not a tool that is naturally employed by interpretive sociologists, social constructionists or symbolic interactionists. To state it simply, SNA focuses on the presence of connections between people and the structural dimensions of relations whereas S...