Doing human service ethnography

Author(s)

• Jacobsson, Katarina
• Gubrium, Jaber F.

Bibliographic Information

Doing human service ethnography

edited by Katarina Jacobsson and Jaber F. Gubrium

Policy Press, 2021

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places - hospitals, shelters, households, prisons, schools, clinics - and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses. Bringing together both theoretical and practical material, this book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid knowledge about today's service work.

Table of Contents

Part One: Capturing Professional Relevance Shadowing Care Workers When They're "Doing Nothing" ~ Doris Lydahl Two Worlds of Professional Relevance in a Small Village ~ Christal Avendal Capturing the Organization of Emotions in Child Welfare Decision-Making ~ Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson Part Two: Grasping Empirical Complexity Sensitizing Concepts in Studies of Homelessness and Disability ~ Nanna Mik-Meyer Grasping the Social Life of Documents in Human Service Practice ~ Emilie Morwenna Whitaker Debating Dementia Care Logics ~ Cintia Engel, Janaina Aredes & Annette Leibing Part Three: Challenges Of Multi-Sitedness Social Worlds of Person-Centered, Multi-Sited Ethnography ~ Aleksandra Bartoszko "Facting" in a Case of Concealed Pregnancy ~ Lucy Sheehan Ethnographic Challenges of Fragmented Human Services ~ Tarja Poesoe PART Four: Noticings From Ethnographic Distance Ethnographic Discovery after Fieldwork on Troubled Youth ~ Malin Akerstroem & David Wasterfors Looking Beyond the Police-as-Control Narrative ~ David Sausdal Embracing Lessons from Ethnography in Non-Western Prison ~ Andrew M. Jefferson

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• NCID: BC14551113
• ISBN:
  • 9781447355793
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bristol
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 231 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 305.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethnology
  • LCSH : Human services