Doing Human Service Ethnography
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, researcher...
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Bristol
Policy Press
2021
Bristol University Press The Policy Press |
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| ISBN: | 1447355792, 9781447355793, 9781447355786, 1447355784, 9781447355809, 1447355806 |
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- Front Matter Table of Contents About the editors Notes on contributors Introduction: 1: Shadowing care workers when they’re ‘doing nothing’ 2: Two worlds of professional relevance in a small village 3: Capturing the organization of emotions in child welfare decision-making 4: Sensitizing concepts in studies of homelessness and disability 5: Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice 6: Debating dementia care logics 7: Social worlds of person-centred, multi-sited ethnography 8: ‘Facting’ in a case of concealed pregnancy 9: Ethnographic challenges of fragmented human services 10: Ethnographic discovery after fieldwork on troubled youth 11: Looking beyond the police-as-control narrative 12: Embracing lessons from ethnography in non-Western prisons Index Back Matter
- Title Page, Copyright Contents About the editors Notes on contributors Introduction: What is human service ethnography? PART I. Capturing professional relevance Shadowing care workers when they're 'doing nothing' Two worlds of professional relevance in a small village Capturing the organization of emotions in child welfare decision-making PART II. Grasping empirical complexity Sensitizing concepts in studies of homelessness and disability Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice Debating dementia care logics PART III. Challenges of multi-sitedness Social worlds of person-centred, multi-sited ethnography 'Facting' in a case of concealed pregnancy Ethnographic challenges of fragmented human services PART IV. Noticings from ethnographic distance Ethnographic discovery after fieldwork on troubled youth Looking beyond the police-as-control narrative Embracing lessons from ethnography in non-Western prisons Index Back Cover Cover
- 6 Debating dementia care logics -- Comparative ethnography -- 'Ensemble logic': care at a specialized public geriatric unit -- Establishing and maintaining routine: care within households -- 'Ensemble' and 'routine' as care logics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART III Challenges of multi-sitedness -- 7 Social worlds of person-centred, multi-sited ethnography -- The Norwegian context -- Meeting Siv -- Following Siv -- Configurations of worlds and organizations -- Connecting artefacts, times and spaces -- Challenges of dissemination -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 'Facting' in a case of concealed pregnancy -- Extending shadowing into the court setting -- Baby Parker -- Making sense of uncertainty: travelling to Parker's first LAC review -- Troubles-talk between social workers -- Concealment and balancing evidence in social work -- The practical and moral consequences of facting -- The collaborative management of interactional troubles attending Parker's LAC review -- Collaborative facting between professionals and parents -- Negotiating evidence in the solicitor's domain: preparing for a case management hearing -- Facting in the solicitor's domain -- The fact of concealment and considerations of care -- Attending an issues resolution hearing -- Finding the fact of concealment -- Losing the fact of concealment -- Attending the final hearing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Ethnographic challenges of fragmented human services -- The ethnographic challenge -- Dingwall, Eekelaar and Murray's ethnographic field -- Multi-sitedness nowadays -- Navigating multi-sitedness and its gatekeepers -- Fragmented time-in-place -- Conclusion -- References -- PART IV Noticings from ethnographic distance -- 10 Ethnographic discovery after fieldwork on troubled youth -- The Swedish youth care project -- The research group
- Front Cover -- Doing Human Service Ethnography -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- About the editors -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: What is human service ethnography? -- Preliminary matters -- The general and the specific -- Problematizing everyday life -- Human service ethnography -- Taken together -- References -- PART I Capturing professional relevance -- 1 Shadowing care workers when they're 'doing nothing' -- Standardization and 'nothingness' -- Shadowing the everyday practices of care -- Care practices in the home -- Football and singing: relations and persistence in care -- Sitting on the floor: inventiveness and sensitivity work in care -- Care practices in the hospital -- Making sandwiches: invisible work and tailored care2 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Two worlds of professional relevance in a small village -- Concerned villagers and problems-talk -- Problems-talk and the larger narrative culture -- Social worlds and counternarratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Capturing the organization of emotions in child welfare decision-making -- Organizational contours of emotion -- Engagement with the emotions of a particular field -- Turning to the everyday practice of emotional expression -- Emotions in everyday decision-making -- Controlling emotions -- Conclusion -- References -- PART II Grasping empirical complexity -- 4 Sensitizing concepts in studies of homelessness and disability -- From sensitizing concepts to empirical complexity -- Analytical ethnography -- Empirical complexity -- Empirical complexity in two observational studies -- Processes of othering -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice -- The ethnographic field -- Assessing need -- Inscribing need -- Following the form -- Contesting need -- Conclusion -- References
- Key incidents and key readings -- Meetings, meetings, meetings -- Analytic implications -- Administrative struggles -- The Eigendynamik -- Enhancing ethnographic creativity -- Struck by a contrast: making it a resource -- A little out of control: not turning 'resocialized' -- Reaching for transferrable conclusions -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Looking beyond the police-as-control narrative -- Difficulties of police ethnography -- Caring less -- 'He's hardcore!' -- Caring more -- Four recommendations -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 Embracing lessons from ethnography in non-Western prisons -- Prisons and prison research -- Getting to know -- Negotiating boundaries -- Doing ethnography from a distance -- Curating the gift of imponderable knowledge -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index -- Back Cover