Fashioning a Proper Institutional Position: Professional Identity Work in the Triadic Structure of the Care Planning Conference

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hitzler
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Substantial Identity ◽  
Positioning Analysis ◽  
Shed Light

Professionals do not only, as is today widely agreed on, work to construct institutionally workable identities for their clients in interaction, they also have to carry out substantial identity work themselves. Such work can be considerably more complicated in interactions which have a triadic structure, i.e. in which professionals from two different institutions and clients interact, demanding of professionals to invoke situational identities which match their relationships towards each other as well as towards the clients. By discussing the identity work of two professionals in a care planning conference, this article traces the difficulties that such a structure presents to practitioners. In addition, it sets out to show how ethnomethodologically informed membership categorization analysis and positioning analysis, as it was developed by discursive psychology, can be combined in the analysis of social work interactions in order to shed light on the identity work of social work professionals.

Social categories, Standardized Relational Pairs and identity work in World War II-narratives

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Schoofs ◽  
Dorien Van De Mieroop
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concentration Camp Survivors

Abstract Drawing on Membership Categorization Analysis, we aim to tease out how narrators talk into being the social group constellations in their storyworlds and how these – potentially shifting – constellations can be related to the narrator’s identity constructions. We investigate two World War II-testimonies narrated by Belgian concentration camp survivors and scrutinize whether the expected Standardized Relational Pair of victim-perpetrator – viz. the camp prisoners versus the Nazis – is in operation, how these two categories are talked into being, whether other social groups are mentioned and how all these processes affect the narrators’ identity work. It proved to be the case that, even though the victim-perpetrator Standardized Relational Pair is indeed present in both testimonies, it functions very differently in both stories, resulting in almost opposing identity work by the two narrators.

scholarly journals A Membership Categorization Analysis of the Waco Siege: Perpetrator-Victim Identity as a Moral Discrepancy Device for ‘Doing’ Subversion

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

This paper seeks to build on previous work on the doing of politics as a members’ practice. More specifically, it seeks to add to the growing work on perpetrator-victim identities by explicating how perpetrator identity is projected from individuals to the morally self-organized group ‘the government’, and so, in this way, subversion is achieved. Using membership categorization analysis (MCA) as a research methodology and data of naturally-occurring talk-in-interaction taken from recordings of the negotiations between the FBI and David Koresh during the Waco siege, this paper explicates how Koresh invokes perpetrator-victim identities to ‘do’ subversion. Findings indicate that this is achieved through his self-avowal of victim identity and consequent ascription of perpetrator identity to the FBI agents. Through this category work, Koresh is able to set up a moral discrepancy between the de jure rights and responsibilities of law enforcement officers and de facto actions of the FBI agents. This identity work is then transferred to the government which becomes an integral, rather than incidental, part of the interaction. In this way, Koresh does subversion and is able to turn the world upside down by proposing a revolutionary theocratic, rather than democratic, moral order.

scholarly journals ‘I’m calling in regard to my son’: Entitlement, obligation, and opportunity to seek help for others

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Tennent
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Emic Perspective

© 2020 The British Psychological Society From mundane acts like lending a hand to high-stakes incidents like calling an ambulance, help is a ubiquitous part of the human experience. Social relations shape who we help and how. This paper presents a discursive psychology study of an understudied form of help – seeking help for others. Drawing on a corpus of recorded calls to a victim support helpline, I analysed how social relations were demonstrably relevant when callers sought help for others. I used membership categorization analysis and sequential conversation analysis to document how participants used categories to build and interpret requests for help on behalf of others. Categorical relationships between help-seekers, help-recipients, and potential help-providers were consequential in determining whether callers’ requests were justified and if help could be provided. The findings show that different categorical relationships configured seeking help for others as a matter of entitlement, obligation, or opportunity. Analysing the categories participants use in naturally occurring social interaction provides an emic perspective on seeking help for others. This kind of help-seeking offers a fruitful area for discursive psychology to develop new conceptualizations of help and social relations.

scholarly journals ‘I’m calling in regard to my son’: Entitlement, obligation, and opportunity to seek help for others

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Tennent
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Emic Perspective

© 2020 The British Psychological Society From mundane acts like lending a hand to high-stakes incidents like calling an ambulance, help is a ubiquitous part of the human experience. Social relations shape who we help and how. This paper presents a discursive psychology study of an understudied form of help – seeking help for others. Drawing on a corpus of recorded calls to a victim support helpline, I analysed how social relations were demonstrably relevant when callers sought help for others. I used membership categorization analysis and sequential conversation analysis to document how participants used categories to build and interpret requests for help on behalf of others. Categorical relationships between help-seekers, help-recipients, and potential help-providers were consequential in determining whether callers’ requests were justified and if help could be provided. The findings show that different categorical relationships configured seeking help for others as a matter of entitlement, obligation, or opportunity. Analysing the categories participants use in naturally occurring social interaction provides an emic perspective on seeking help for others. This kind of help-seeking offers a fruitful area for discursive psychology to develop new conceptualizations of help and social relations.

“Are You Religious or are You Saved?”

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Stephen Pihlaja
Keyword(s):  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
Video Images ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Longitudinal Observation

Using membership categorization analysis, this article investigates membership categories in a YouTube video made by an Evangelical Christian in which he differentiates between “saved” and “religious” users. Analysis will take a discourse-centred, multimodal approach grounded in longitudinal observation, using analysis of video discourse to instruct analysis of video images and user comments. Findings will show that categorization is accomplished by using recognized categories with ambiguous descriptions of category-bound activities that include metaphors, such as “being hungry for God” and not “hanging out with atheists.” These categories are recognized by commenters on the video, but the category bound activities applied to the category members are disputed. Findings will also show that scriptural reference plays an important role in categorization in the video, drawing on direct Bible quotes as well as paraphrases of key passages.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF GERIATRIC INTERPROFESSIONAL TRAINING ON ADVANCE CARE PLANNING IN GERIATRIC PRIMARY CARE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S151-S152
Author(s):  
Maureen E Barrientos ◽  
Anna Chodos ◽  
Alicia Neumann ◽  
Yvonne Troya ◽  
Pei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Advance Care Planning ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Office Visits ◽  
Advance Care ◽  
Telephone Calls

Abstract Currently, an important measure of Advance Care Planning (ACP), Advance Health Care Directives (AHCD) documentation rate, is at 33% for older adults in the United States. To address this disparity, geriatric faculty in an academic geriatric primary care practice aimed to train geriatrics fellows and other interprofessional (IP) learners to engage patients in ACP. As part of a Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, geriatrics faculty and the Medical Legal Partnership for Seniors based at University of California Hastings College of Law provided ACP training to fellows and IP learners, including social work interns. In practice, the fellows and social work interns collaborated to incorporate ACP into patient visits and follow-up telephone calls. To monitor ACP progress, research staff reviewed patients’ electronic health records and performed descriptive analysis of the data. In 21 months, 4 geriatrics fellows built a panel of 59 patients who on average had 3 office visits and 7 telephone calls per person. Prior to clinic enrollment, 12 (20.3%) patients had preexisting AHCD, and 47 lacked AHCD documentation. After ACP intervention, 42 of 47 patients without AHCD documentation engaged in ACP discussion. Of those who engaged in ACP discussion, 24 completed AHCD, raising AHCD completion rate to 61%, or 36 patients in the panel of 59. ACP is a complex process that benefits from skilled communication among interprofessional providers and patients. Findings underscore the potential advantages of IP training and engaging patients in ACP discussion in an academic primary care setting.

scholarly journals An interprofessional training to improve advance care planning skills among medicine, nursing, and social work students

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 100382
Author(s):  
Leah S. Millstein ◽  
John Allen ◽  
Melissa H. Bellin ◽  
Steven R. Eveland ◽  
Danielle Baek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Advance Care Planning ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Interprofessional Training ◽  
Advance Care

Undoing the Legal Capacities of a Military Object: A Case Study on the (In)Visibility of Civilians

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 377-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Kolanoski
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Sequential Approach ◽  
Object A ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Civil Proceeding ◽  
The Military

International law dictates that actors in armed conflicts must distinguish between combatants and civilians. But how do legal actors assess the legality of a military operation after the fact? I analyze a civil proceeding for compensation by victims of a German-led airstrike in Afghanistan. The court treated military video as key evidence. I show how lawyers, judges, and expert witnesses categorized those involved by asking what a “military viewer” would make of the pictures. During the hearing, they avoided the categories of combatants/civilians; the military object resisted legal coding. I examine the decision in its procedural context, using ethnographic field notes and legal documents. I combine two ethnomethodological analytics: a trans-sequential approach and membership categorization analysis. I show the value of this combination for the sociological analysis of legal practice. I also propose that legal practitioners should use this approach to assess military viewing as a concerted, situated activity.

Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702097730
Author(s):  
Netta Avnoon
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Depth Interviews

Drawing on theories from the sociology of work and the sociology of culture, this article argues that members of nascent technical occupations construct their professional identity and claim status through an omnivorous approach to skills acquisition. Based on a discursive analysis of 56 semi-structured in-depth interviews with data scientists, data science professors and managers in Israel, it was found that data scientists mobilise the following five resources to construct their identity: (1) ability to bridge the gap between scientist’s and engineer’s identities; (2) multiplicity of theories; (3) intensive self-learning; (4) bridging technical and social skills; and (5) acquiring domain knowledge easily. These resources diverge from former generalist-specialist identity tensions described in the literature as they attribute a higher status to the generalist-omnivore and a lower one to the specialist-snob.

Memberschip Categorization Analysis. Een frame-analyse van open interviews met jonge kinderen op een etnisch gemengde school

KWALON ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineke Graumans ◽  
Harry van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Kwalitatief Onderzoek ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Harvey Sacks

Harvey Sacks, die vooral bekend is als grondlegger van de conversatie-analyse, heeft daarnaast in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw ook de basis gelegd voor een veelbelovende theoretisch-methodische benadering van sociale categorisering: Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) (Sacks 1979, 1992). Die benadering heeft lange tijd weinig aandacht gekregen, maar staat sinds de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw opnieuw in de belangstelling. Een belangrijk doel van kwalitatief onderzoek is het reconstrueren van de belevingswereld van mensen en groepen. MCA is een methode die daar bij uitstek geschikt voor is (Lepper, 2000). De belangrijkste redenen daarvoor zijn dat MCA gebaseerd is op een strikt participantgerichte (emic) benadering van alledaagse gesprekken en dat het een zeer systematische werkwijze presenteert.

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