{"title":"Female Identity and Career Pathways","authors":"E. Lewin, J. Damrell","doi":"10.1177/003803857800500103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857800500103","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative interviews with 17 postbaccalaureate nurses are analyzed with special attention to their management of conflicting commitments in the personal and occupational domains. Problems are seen as arising not only from organizational difficulties associated with parallel involvement with a profession and with the traditional domestic-maternal role, but from cultural categories that reflect sexual asymmetry. The paper discusses the strategies respondents use to minimize these contradictions, showing that these generally operate either to enhance harmony between the two domains or to accentuate their separateness from each other.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"5 1","pages":"31 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857800500103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policies and Practices of Psychiatric Case Selection","authors":"R. Emerson, M. Pollner","doi":"10.1177/003803857800500105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857800500105","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the factors affecting how psychiatric emergency teams (PET teams) evaluate and responded to, legitimated or discounted, the calls of community members. Such calls were processed on two distinct levels-the psychiatric and the practical. PET teams had a variety of policies and procedures for assessing the psychiatric \"seriousness\" of a case. On many occasions, however, the psychiatric ordering would be subordinated to organizationl and personal factors. The paper concludes with a consideration of structuralfactors which promoted this subordination of psychiatric to pragmatic criteria for selection.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"25 1","pages":"75 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857800500105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"33 1","pages":"485 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Work-Related Consequences of Influence, Respect, and Solidarity in Two Law Enforcement Agencies","authors":"Jon Miller, L. Fry","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400404","url":null,"abstract":"The members of two law enforcement agencies (n's = 78 and 159) participated in an organizational survey that linked perceptions of social exchange processes to subjective evaluations of work. It was found that members' evaluations of the distributions of influence, respect, and solidarity, all measured by a modified control graph technique, leave definite traces in measures ofjob satisfaction and work strain. However, predictions about how these relationships would differ with rank and from one organization to the other were not always clearly confirmed. A surprise in the analysis was the evidence of a bias among the rank andfile in favor ofparticipatory decision-making.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"4 1","pages":"451 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400404","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology and Social Structure in a Japanese Automobile Factory","authors":"M. Osako","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400402","url":null,"abstract":"The present research investigates the ways in which the Japanese-factory social structure mitigates the alienating effects of auto-assembly technology. The Japanese employee enjoys dual work roles; as an assembler and as a member of the company community. Because these roles are insulatedfrom one another, his negative reaction to the immediate job fails to contaminate his relationship with the enterprise, which he experiences primarily as a member of its community.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"39 1","pages":"397 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Atrocity Stories\" and Professional Relationships","authors":"R. Dingwall","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400401","url":null,"abstract":"It is argued that social interaction involves the reciprocal typification of parties to any encounter in the light of the social theories which those parties have available to them. One element of such theories is a conception of the social structure of one's society, including a taxonomy of occupations. Two problems are generated within this taxonomy, that of inclusion, defining what properly falls within some category, and that of exclusion, defining what properly falls out with that category. One way in which these problems are resolved is in the telling of \"atrocity stories\" which assert and defend the rational character of an occupation and its members against illegitimate claims to its work or to social superiority. These arguments are examined in the light of data derived from a participant-observation study of health visitors, a type of British public health nurse occupying an interstitial role between health and welfare services. The uncertainities of their situation and the role of atrocity stories are examined through a consideration of their relationships with doctors, social workers, other nurses, and ancillary health workers.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"4 1","pages":"371 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledggments","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"4 1","pages":"483 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to \"Fiddle\" Customers","authors":"J. Ditton","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400403","url":null,"abstract":"A lengthy period of participation observation and subsequent semistructured interviewing among the bread salesmen in an Englishfactory bakery showed that the salesmen regularly steal small sums of money from their customers. Paradoxically, although this is clearly (and seriously) theft, the salesmen manage to sustain a def inition of the practice as trifing. This paper shows that the salesmen's adoption of systematic theft (and their definition of it as unimportant) is a rational response to a critical organisational dilemma, and that ultimately, the responsiblity for illegality lies squarely with the bakery management.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"4 1","pages":"427 - 450"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical Mystique","authors":"P. Atkinson, M. Reid, P. Sheldrake","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400301","url":null,"abstract":"The paper begins with a discussion of the concepts of \"Indeterminacy\" and \"Technicality\" in the context of a sociology of the professions. It is argued that the definition and preservation of areas of indeterminate knowledge are central in the creation of claims to professional expertise. In the second part of the paper, this argument is illustrated by two case studies drawn from intersegmental negotiations and disputes within the medical profession in Britain: the dispute over the remuneration over General Practitioners, 1963-1965, and the debate over specialist registration, 1968-1969.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"149 1","pages":"243 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating a Company of Unequals","authors":"J. Lorber, Roberta Satow","doi":"10.1177/003803857700400303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400303","url":null,"abstract":"This study of a hospital-based community mental health center in an urban ghetto found that the dominance of the psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists and residents over the social workers and paraprofessionals was the result of and was maintained by both negotiative processes and traditional role structures, backed up by bureaucratic rules. The psychiatrists and residents got the best cases, the social workers the average cases, and the minimally trained paraprofessionals the problem cases. The results of this stratification system on therapists and patients are described, and the authors conclude that autonomous clinics are necessary if professionals are to be rewarded for developing modes of treatment appropriate to ghetto patients. However, it is predicted that after the role negotiation process settles down, new stratification systems will emerge.","PeriodicalId":85554,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of work and occupations","volume":"4 1","pages":"281 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/003803857700400303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65326151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}