Here today, gone tomorrow? The ambivalent ethics of contingency social work

In the UK the number of state social workers supplied by independent employment agencies has increased significantly since the mid-1990s. Although state sectors of welfare such as education and health have always relied upon a steady supply of locum staff, there is no such tradition within social work. This paper explores some of the ethical tensions that have become apparent with the expansion…

Making ‘care’ accessible : Personal assistance for disabled people and th…

Disability scholars and activists argue that �care� is a complex form of oppression and reject it as a term and concept. I explore the possibility of salvaging care from its oppressive medical and charitable legacies through a discussion of personal assistance. While not arguing for a return to terming personal assistance �care�, I argue care can be made accessible in policies and discussions o…

Neoliberal restructuring, limited autonomy, and relational distance in Manito…

This article draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to describe the nonprofit field. We highlight the ways in which the neoliberal restructuring of the nonprofit field has introduced new market conditions and valuational standards that have compelled social service providers within this field to adapt to or resist its structural transformation. Our study is focused on social service providing non…

Doing it ‘right’ by your parents in Singapore : A political economy exami…

Singapore is expected to experience a demographic revolution in its ageing population in the coming decades. In an effort to deal with this projected burgeoning need, the Singapore Parliament enacted the Maintenance of Parents Act in 1995. The Act legislates the financial responsibility of adult children towards their indigent aged parents. Using archival data, including parliamentary debates, …

Dual Identity as a Two-Edged Sword : Identity Threat and Minority School Perf…

Some members of ethnic minority groups respond to identity threat in ways that are detrimental to their school career, while others persist despite an unwelcoming school environment. It was hypothesized that ethnic and national identities, as combined in �separated,� �assimilated,� or �dual identity� strategies, moderate consequences of identity threat for minority school performance and that t…

Stigma, Reflected Appraisals, and Recovery Outcomes in Mental Illness

Drawing on modified labeling theory and the reflected appraisals process and using longitudinal data from 129 mothers and their adult children with schizophrenia, we estimate models of the effects of mothers� stigmatized identity appraisals of their mentally ill children on reflected and self-appraisals, and how appraisals affect outcomes (symptoms, self-efficacy, life satisfaction). Results in…

Intergroup Conflict in Russia : Testing the Group Position Model

The group position model (Blumer 1958; Bobo and Tuan 2006) assumes that attempting to secure a privileged position for the ingroup is a main determinant of perceived intergroup conflict. This assumption is tested with survey data collected in 1999 and 2000 among eight titular groups in autonomous republics of the Russian Federation. The survey included an experiment that was aimed at disentangl…

The Moral Self : Applying Identity Theory

This research applies identity theory to understand the moral self. In identity theory, individuals act on the basis of their identity meanings, and they regulate the meanings of their behavior so that those meanings are consistent with their identity meanings. An inconsistency produces negative emotions and motivates individuals to behave differently to produce outcomes that will better match …

Designing the Recipient : Managing Advice Resistance in Institutional Settings

In this paper we consider a collection of conversational practices that arise when a professional is faced with extended resistance to their offered advice. Our data is comprised of telephone calls to a UK child protection helpline. The practices we identify occur repeatedly across our corpus of advice resistance sequences and involve (1) the repackaging of resisted advice in more idiomatic for…

Playing the (Sexual) Field : The Interactional Basis of Systems of Sexual Str…

Recently, scholars have used a Bourdieusian theory of practice to analyze systems of sexual stratification, including an examination of sexual fields and sexual (or erotic) capital. While the broad structural features of the sexual field have been a point of focus in this latter research, a systematic analysis of the interactional processes that operate within the sexual status order has not be…

Do Others’ Views of Us Transfer to New Groups and Tasks? : An Expectation S…

The dual nature of the self has been a core concern of social psychology since its inception. We contribute to this longstanding tradition of inquiry by focusing on two lines of research within the expectation states theoretical research program: (1) the study of second-order expectations and (2) research on the durability of expectations. We argue that individuals give priority to others� expe…

Spoiled Group Identities and Backstage Work : A Theory of Stigma Management R…

How do persons with a stigmatized identity learn potential responses to discrimination and harassment? Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic data, this paper demonstrates how members of a group of Muslim American youth are socialized in locally dominant stigma management strategies through stigma management rehearsals. Stigma management rehearsals are small group interactions throug…

Being in “Bad” Company : Power Dependence and Status in Adolescent Suscep…

Theories of susceptibility to peer influence have centered on the idea that lower status adolescents are likely to adopt the behaviors of high status adolescents. While status is important, social exchange theorists have shown the value of analyzing exchange relations between actors to understand differences in power. To build on status-based theories of peer influence, this study analyzes powe…

“We Want Them to Be as Heterosexual as Possible” : Fathers Talk about The…

This article examines heterosexual fathers� descriptions of conversations with their teen children about sexuality and their perceptions of their teen children�s sexual identities. We show that fathers construct their own identities as masculine and heterosexual in the context of these conversations and prefer that their children, especially sons, are heterosexual. Specifically, fathers feel ac…

“I’m Not a Victim, She’s an Abuser” : Masculinity, Victimization, and…

Previous research analyzing masculinity and domestic violence has focused on men�s accounts of the violence they have committed; relatively little research has focused on men�s accounts of victimization. This article critically examines how men negotiate the competing discourses of victimization, hegemonic masculinity, and stereotypes about domestic violence when filing for a domestic violence …

“Locas,” Respect, and Masculinity : Gender Conformity in Migrant Puerto R…

In this article, I explore how masculinity and gender nonconformity are viewed by 37 migrant Puerto Rican gay men who had been raised in Puerto Rico and migrated Stateside as adults. Most of these migrant men note the importance of masculinity in their development and interactions with others, particularly other men. They resist identification of themselves as effeminate and distance themselves…

A “Major Career Woman”? : How Women Develop Early Expectations about Work

Using data from 80 in-depth qualitative interviews with women randomly sampled from New York City, I ask: how do women develop expectations about their future workforce participation? Using an intersectional approach, I find that women�s expectations about workforce participation stem from gendered, classed, and raced ideas of who works full-time. Socioeconomic status, race, gender, and sexuali…

“It’s the Knowledge That Puts You in Control” : The Embodied Labor of G…

Studies have recently begun to attend to the ways paid labor is embodied. However, the literature on embodied labor has not adequately addressed occupations for which the site of labor is the worker�s own body. One such occupation is that of gynecological educators�female-bodied instructors who teach breast and pelvic examinations to medical students using their own bodies as models. Drawing on…

Dreaded “Otherness” : Heteronormative Patrolling in Women’s Body Hair R…

Edition

Vol. 25 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 451-472

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08912432

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Gender & Society

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Constructing Arab Female Leadership Lessons from the Moroccan Media

How the Arab media construct Middle Eastern women as political actors, frame their leadership roles, and narrate their activities to the public are important questions largely ignored in the growing scholarship on women�s political participation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Drawing on Nancy Fraser�s reflections on the politics of recognition and distribution (2007), I examine the…