Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Löffler, Marlen S.
• Skilbrei, May-Len
• Nencel, Lorraine
• Bjønness, Jeanett

Titel

Knowing who is a ‘hustler’: Stigmatization in service providers' first talks in Germany

Ist Teil von

• Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale, 2022, Vol.1, p.119-135

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter examines the categorization work of two social service providers (SSPs) regarding ‘hustlers’ that takes place during the SSPs’ ‘first talks’ with potential clients. In the chapter, ethnomethodological membership categorization analysis (MCA) is applied to demonstrate how social workers apply in situ and practical categories to decide whether or not a potential user of the SSP may participate in the organization’s service offers. The concept of stigma emerges in the SSP professionals’ categorization work in two ways: as an instrument for the social workers’ categorization work and as a consequence of the SSPs’ categorization systems. The categorization work both reproduces hustlers as being stigmatized and stigmatizes those who cannot be categorized as hustlers.