Overview

Combines the theory with the 'how to' of ethnography, has relevance across disciplines - Social Research Methods, Health, Social Work, Management and Organisation Studies, Public Administration. Human service work is performed in many places hospitals, shelters, households - 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 perspectives, this book explores 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. EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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Author:   Andrew M. Jefferson ,  David Sausdal ,  David Wästerfors ,  Tarja Pösö (Tampere University)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447355793

ISBN 10:   1447355792
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   22 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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 Pösö PART Four: Noticings From Ethnographic Distance Ethnographic Discovery after Fieldwork on Troubled Youth ~ Malin Ǻkerström & David Wästerfors Looking Beyond the Police-as-Control Narrative ~ David Sausdal Embracing Lessons from Ethnography in Non-Western Prison ~ Andrew M. Jefferson

Reviews

"""In this time of pandemics and apparently faceless global corporations, human service work is fundamentally important to all our lives. In this fascinating volume, two leading experts in the field bring together an array of insightful accounts of how service encounters work in the field. An essential book for anybody wanting to engage with the ethnographic realities of practitioner-client interaction."" David Silverman, Goldsmiths, University of London ""Thorough, detailed, theoretically sophisticated and timely, with an impressive range. An essential resource for researchers and practitioners at all career levels concerned with lived experience and organisational practice in human services."" Dana Rosenfeld, University of Westminster"

""In this time of pandemics and apparently faceless global corporations, human service work is fundamentally important to all our lives. In this fascinating volume, two leading experts in the field bring together an array of insightful accounts of how service encounters work in the field. An essential book for anybody wanting to engage with the ethnographic realities of practitioner-client interaction."" David Silverman, Goldsmiths, University of London ""Thorough, detailed, theoretically sophisticated and timely, with an impressive range. An essential resource for researchers and practitioners at all career levels concerned with lived experience and organisational practice in human services."" Dana Rosenfeld, University of Westminster

In this time of pandemics and apparently faceless global corporations, human service work is fundamentally important to all our lives. In this fascinating volume, two leading experts in the field bring together an array of insightful accounts of how service encounters work in the field. An essential book for anybody wanting to engage with the ethnographic realities of practitioner-client interaction. David Silverman, Goldsmiths, University of London Thorough, detailed, theoretically sophisticated and timely, with an impressive range. An essential resource for researchers and practitioners at all career levels concerned with lived experience and organisational practice in human services. Dana Rosenfeld, University of Westminster

Author Information

Katarina Jacobsson is Professor of Social Work at Lund University in Sweden. Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Missouri in the US.

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