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Author:   Jaber F. Gubrium (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA) ,  Margaretha Järvinen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780415522526

ISBN 10:   0415522528
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   31 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Troubles, Problems, and Clientization Jaber F. Gubrium and Margaretha Järvinen Part 1: Individual Challenges 2. Listening and the Paradox of Autonomy in Elderly Care Homes Jens Kofod 3. Parent Constructions of Problem Location and Clienthood in Child Welfare Services Maarit Alasuutari 4. Untidy Clientization: Drug Users Resisting Institutional Identities Margaretha Järvinen Part 2: Collective Challenges 5. Psychiatric Diagnosis as Collective Action in a Residential Therapeutic Community Darin Weinberg 6. Wild Girls and the Deproblematization of Troubled Lives Kathrine Vitus 7. The Imagined Psychology of Being Overweight in a Weight Loss Program Nanna Mik-Meyer Part 3: Competing Perspectives 8. Troubles? Problems? Comparing Social Workers’ and Older Persons’ Perspectives on Elder Self-Neglect Tova Band-Winterstein, Israel Doron, and Sigal Naim 9. Participant Meaning-Making Along the Work Trajectory of a Labor Activation Program Erika Gubrium 10. Constructing the System in a Remand Prison Thomas Ugelvik Part 4: Contending Clienthoods 11. How Occupational Identity Constructs Clienthood in Sexual Assault Exams Lara Foley 12. Tenability, Troubles, and Psychiatric Problems in Practice James A. Holstein 13. From Troubling Actions to Troubled Lives: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Richard Tewksbury and David Patrick Connor

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Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri, USA, and is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Aging Studies. Margaretha Järvinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen and is affiliated with the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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