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Book SynopsisThis book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings, providing an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offering a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach to generating valid knowledge about today's service work.
Table of ContentsPart One: Capturing Professional Relevance Shadowing Care Workers When They’re “Doing Nothing” ~ Doris Lydahl Two Worlds of Professional Relevance in a Small Village ~ Christal Avendal Capturing the Organization of Emotions in Child Welfare Decision-Making ~ Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson Part Two: Grasping Empirical Complexity Sensitizing Concepts in Studies of Homelessness and Disability ~ Nanna Mik-Meyer Grasping the Social Life of Documents in Human Service Practice ~ Emilie Morwenna Whitaker Debating Dementia Care Logics ~ Cintia Engel, Janaina Aredes & Annette Leibing Part Three: Challenges Of Multi-Sitedness Social Worlds of Person-Centered, Multi-Sited Ethnography ~ Aleksandra Bartoszko “Facting” in a Case of Concealed Pregnancy ~ Lucy Sheehan Ethnographic Challenges of Fragmented Human Services ~ Tarja Pösö PART Four: Noticings From Ethnographic Distance Ethnographic Discovery after Fieldwork on Troubled Youth ~ Malin Ǻkerström & David Wästerfors Looking Beyond the Police-as-Control Narrative ~ David Sausdal Embracing Lessons from Ethnography in Non-Western Prison ~ Andrew M. Jefferson
