Doing Human Service Ethnography / Katarina Jacobsson ; Jaber Gubrium, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobsson, Katarina, author.

Contributor:

Gubrium, Jaber, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

About the editors

Notes on contributors

Introduction: What is human service ethnography?

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

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

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

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

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4473-5578-4

OCLC:

1259323196