{"title":"Erving Goffman's Sociological Legacies","authors":"J. Lofland","doi":"10.1177/0098303984013001002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303984013001002","url":null,"abstract":"Erving Goffman bequeaths us four main kinds of sociological legacies: the substantive study of the interaction order; a special intellectual perspective on sociology more generally; a reverent spirit, attitude, or mood with which to deal with scholarship; and a distinctive mode of being a scholar, colleague, and friend.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"34 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80822929","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":"The Placement of Insanity","authors":"James A. Holstein","doi":"10.1177/0098303984013001003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303984013001003","url":null,"abstract":"This ethnography of legal proceedings examines how judgments of “grave disability” are formulated to effect involuntary mental hospitalizations. Such commitment decisions are based on judges' pragmatic evaluations of the viability of candidate patients' proposed community living situations and the ability of those situations to contain the havoc associated with mental illness. In assessing the tenability of candidate patients' proposed living arrangements, judges consider the following: (1) the person's ability to provide life's basic necessities; (2) the willing presence of a “caretaker” to supervise the candidate patient; and (3) the candidate patient's cooperation with a community-based treatment/custody regime. In the absence of any of these, social and psychiatric disturbances are considered inevitable, and hospitalization is likely to be ordered.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"35 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75853128","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":"The Micropolitics of Trouble in a Psychiatric Board and Care Facility","authors":"R. Emerson, E. Rochford, Linda L. Shaw","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012003007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012003007","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a variety of micropolitical processes characteristic of a psychiatric board and care facility. Within the relatively “loose” organizational structure, troubles and their subsequent handling by staff become particularly critical determinants of resident fates. Staff understandings of and response to resident troubles are shaped by the nature and level of staff support and by the distinctive institutional reputations residents acquire with staff members. The article examines the interactional processes through which support and reputations are negotiated, and suggests that one consequence of these processes is to exaggerate residents' sense of the subjectively determined and unpredictable character of their local environment.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"102 1","pages":"349 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91333340","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":"Negotiating Trouble in a Battered Women's Shelter","authors":"Kathleen J. Ferraro","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012003004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012003004","url":null,"abstract":"The treatment of battered women is discussed by examining the micro- and macropolitical forces impinging on the operation of a battered women's shelter. Funding agencies, other social services, and interpretive frameworks of staff members formed the organizational context of the micropolitical context. The women's troubles were negotiated at three major stages—intake, processing, and return to the shelter—and the major micropolitical features of this negotiation were a therapeutic ideology, the need for social control, interpersonal conflicts, and personal feelings. Criteria for evaluating and controlling the troubles of women were established in light of self work, the primary objective of shelter residence. Professional expertise was the justification for imposing staff's definitions. Women who rejected the demands of staff were labeled failures and held responsible for the problems they encountered as battered women.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"287 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87552527","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":"Practicing Accountabilty in Human Service Institutions","authors":"D. Buckholdt, J. Gubrium","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012003002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012003002","url":null,"abstract":"Based on observational studies of three kinds of human service institutions, this paper discusses several concerns and reportorial practices of professional caregivers who strive to be accountable to third-party reviewers. It is argued that a conventional understanding of accountability fails to appreciate the situated concerns and practices of caregivers who strive to report not only accurately but also successfully for a variety of organizational purposes. Reporting thus involves social and organizational processes beyond the issues of accurate or objective representation as it is formally conceived in models of technical accountability.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"249 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73715498","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":"Trouble and the Politics of Contemporary Social Control Institutions","authors":"R. Emerson, C. Warren","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012003001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012003001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"243 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83387863","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":"“Teaching” Retarded Adults","authors":"G. Kielhofner","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012003005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012003005","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the interactions of students with teachers and aides in a classroom for mentally retarded adults. Based on a year of participant observation in and out of the classroom an analysis of trouble management and its consequences for retarded students is offered. Constrained by organizational definitions and expectations, teachers and aides engage in practices aimed at maintaining order and keeping up the appearance of a classroom. These practices result in a social order which paradoxically teaches retarded adults to be incompetent and to attend to the appearances of social order without understanding it.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"480 1","pages":"307 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77776717","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":"Nursing Homes as Trouble","authors":"T. Diamond","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012003003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012003003","url":null,"abstract":"This article is drawn from participant observation in two nursing homes where the author worked as a nursing assistant. Based on conversations with residents, nursing assistants, and administrators, the ways in which everyday life in nursing homes is dominated by the ideology of capitalist medicine are illustrated. This is addressed in terms of the subordination of nursing assistants within a medical hierarchy, overemphasis on medical tasks in this work, and the pervasive assumption that residents of nursing homes are mentally ill. These are seen as mutually reinforcing components of nursing home culture, although experienced very differently by residents, nursing assistants, and administrators. While from the administrative standpoint they provide a rational model of organization, for residents and nursing assistants they create a climate that is counterproductive to health care.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"525 1","pages":"269 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86899798","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":"The Politics of Trouble in an Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital","authors":"C. Warren","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012003006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012003006","url":null,"abstract":"Trouble and the response to it by staff at an adolescent psychiatric hospital are interpreted as a form of micropolitics. The response to trouble is structured by the everyday social control and other activities of the institution and, therefore, varies with the level of staff involved. The micropolitics of trouble takes place within a more general macropolitical context, of which continual documentation is the most proximate feature. The handling and documentation of trouble within the institution is constrained by third party insurance requirements, provisions of mental health legislation, and the economics of bed space in private social control institutions. Psychiatric language and diagnoses form the symbolic link between the micro- and macropolitics of trouble.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"74 1","pages":"327 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77178074","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":"Collective Matters as Individual Concerns","authors":"S. Kleinman","doi":"10.1177/0098303983012002005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0098303983012002005","url":null,"abstract":"When will recruits in socializing settings develop group culture rooted in their situationally relevant identity? Studies show that certain structural situations, such as competition, impede the development of peer culture, while more collectively oriented situations make the development of group culture more likely. Similarly, socializers' ideology of collective or individual work affects the existence and content of peer culture. A study of a few graduate programs in sociology reveals that the ideologies of individual work and individuation (“original scholarship”) override the collective ideology of a “community of scholars,” resulting in a student culture that is neither student nor professionally oriented.","PeriodicalId":89870,"journal":{"name":"Women's health & urban life : an international and interdisciplinary journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"203 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89293065","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}