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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Strauss, Anselm

Titel

CREATING SOCIOLOGICAL AWARENESS: COLLECTIVE IMAGES AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

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Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This work, presented in X PARTS & 27 Chpts, with a Foreword by Irving Louis Horowitz & a Preface, offers the author's collected writings from the late 1950s to the present. Intended as a tool for creating sociological awareness, the collection of essays includes treatments of such topics as leisure, culture, illness, identity, & policy. PART I - INTERACTION - contains (1) The Chicago Tradition's Ongoing Theory of Action/Interaction -- examines the origins, development, & contemporary status of the Chicago tradition in sociology, focusing on the Pragmatist theory of action, the writings of John Dewey & G. H. Mead & their successors Herbert Blumer & E. Hughes, & recent developments in the Chicago tradition; (2) with Barney Glaser -- Closed Awareness -- explores closed awareness contexts in US hospitals, wherein patients often do not recognize their impending death even though hospital personnel are aware of it; (3) Face-to-Face Interaction: Complex and Developmental -- offers an analysis of the complexities of face-to-face interaction, arguing that interaction is best conceived as a narrative or dramatic process, & that fantasy arises out of & has consequences for social encounters; & (4) Structured Interactional Process -- looks at various strategies for analyzing interaction, focusing on sociological & psychiatric approaches. PART II - WORK - offers (5) Work and the Division of Labor -- a revised version of SA 34:1/86Q3335; (6) The Articulation of Project Work: An Organizational Process -- a revised version of SA 36:5/88T9606; & (7) with Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, & Carolyn Wiener -- Sentimental Work -- examines "sentimental work" & its subtypes (eg, trust, composure, & identity work) in medical situations, arguing that patient depersonalization is often a consequence of inadequate sentimental work on the part of physicians & hospital staff. PART III - TRAJECTORY - includes (8) with Juliet Corbin -- Trajectory Framework for Management of Chronic Illness -- describes the trajectory framework for management of chronic illness, focusing on "phasing," conditions that affect management of chronic illness, & the impact of chronic conditions on family members & hospital staff; & (9) with Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, & Carolyn Wiener -- illustrates the utility of the concept of illness trajectories via case studies of patient care & the diagnostic process. PART IV - NEGOTIATION - (10) with Rue Bucher, Danuta Ehrlich, Melvin Sabshin, & Leonard Schatzman -- Negotiated Order and the Coordination of Work -- explores how, in psychiatric hospitals, personnel with different psychiatric ideologies can manage to work together, focusing on how patient management is negotiated; (11) General Considerations: An Introduction -- offers an analytic examination of negotiation, showing that weaknesses in theory & research about social order can be viewed as stemming from inadequate treatments of the role of negotiation in social order; & (12) Paradigm and Prospects for a General Theory of Negotiation -- offers reflections on the possibility of a general theory of negotiation, & presents a scheme for analyzing negotiations. PART V - SOCIAL WORLDS - continues with (13) a revised version of SA 31:1/83M7456 (14) with Rue Bucher -- a revised version of SA 9:2/619503; & (15) Memo on Science and Policy Arenas: Some Summary Notes -- offers a series of notes, in the form of a memorandum, on science & policy arenas, focusing on acquired immune deficiency syndrome-related issues & arguing that scientific developments must be understood as instances of processual reciprocity. PART VI - COLLECTIVE IMAGES AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS - includes (16) The Symbolic Time of Cities -- investigates how cities are conceptualized & represented using temporal imagery & everyday language, with reference to the US vocabulary of urbanism; & (17) Images of Immigration and Ethnicity -- looks at the impact of immigration on the development of US imageries, including those pertaining to mobility, rurality, cities, frontier, & industrialization, with additional consideration given to the properties of US immigration, the nativistic animus, & Negro ethnicity. PART VII - IDENTITY - offers (18) Transformations of Identity -- explores from a social-pscyhological perspective the problem of personal change & development, & presents a framework for studying changes that take place late in the adult life cycle. PART VIII - BODY AND BIOGRAPHY - contains (19) with Juliet Corbin -- Experiencing Body Failure and a Disrupted Self-Image -- examines the experience of body failure & its consequences for self-image, with consideration given to issues of temporality & biography; (20) with Juliet Corbin -- Comeback: The Process of Overcoming Disability -- investigates social processes associated with overcoming disability, with focus on the biographical meanings of disability & what it means to return to a meaningful way of life after an injury or serious illness; & (21) Body, Action-Performance, and Everyday Life -- offers a series of sociologically informed reflections on the body, & spells out a new strategy for examining relationships that exist between the bodily failures of ill people & the body failures of everybody in everyday life activities. PART IX - POLICY - includes (22) Medical Ghettos -- explores health care policy circa 1968, arguing that the poor will never have equal health care until our present medical organization undergoes profound reform; (23) with Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, & Carolyn Wiener -- Implications for Delivering Safe and Humane Care -- examines the issue of clinical safety within the hospital context, focusing on difficulties in maintaining safety accountability, policy suggestions, & the need to create public awareness about safe & humane health srvices; (24) with Juliet Corbin -- A Model for Reorganizing Health Care Delivery -- draws policy recommendations from a trajectory model of health care delivery, & suggests that sound health care policy must take into account home health care as well as care delivered in hospitals. PART X - METHOD, CONSULTATION, AND TEACHING - contains (25) with Juliet Corbin -- Criteria for Evaluating a Grounded Theory -- a revised version of SA 39:1/91X1341; (26) with Juliet Corbin -- Tracing Lines of Conditional Influence: Matrix and Paths -- discusses methodological issues in the study of ward work & its relation to broader political, social, & economic conditions; & (27) Research Consultations and Teaching: Guidelines, Strategies, and Style -- presents guidelines for teaching sociological approaches to research on health care, with attention also given to issues relating to consulting. Notes &/or References accompany each Chpt. 1 Table, 1 Figure. W. Howard