Katarina Wegar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 108194 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katarina Wegar |
| PRENOMES | Katarina |
| SOBRENOME | Wegar |
| ASSINATURA | WEGAR K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Colorado College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Adoption, Family Ideology, and Social Stigma
This article explores the impact of the dominant North American genetic family ideal on community attitudes toward adoption, on adoption research, and on the beliefs and attitudes of adoption case workers. It examines how the failure to recognize the stigmatized social position of adoptive families has shaped not only current public opinion about adoption, but adoption research and practice as well. In conclusion, the article offers suggestions f…
Adoption, Identity and Kinship
In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by …
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records. Katarina Wegar. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1997. 169 pp. ISBN 0-300-06759-3. $22.50 cloth. In this book, Katarina Wegar, sociologist, attempts to make explicit the implicit assumptions that have shaped adoption and the debate over sealed records. She argues that adoption policies have been shaped by central assumption of differences, by patriarchal assumptions about the…
In search of bad mothers
Adoption and mental health
The extant research on adoption and mental health is reviewed, and an alternative interactionist perspective is offered that acknowledges the social embeddedness of experiences of adoption and infertility. While cultural factors enter into the etiology and medical definition of all mental health problems, the particular importance of considering cultural components when addressing the needs of individuals who hold a stigmatized social status is e…
Gender, Work and Medicine
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction - Elianne Riska PART TWO: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Sex Stereotyping of Women Doctors' Contribution to Medicine - S Muthu Chidambaram India Women Doctors in a Changing Profession - Mary Ann Elston The Case of Britain Why Women Physicians Will Never be True Equals in the American Medical Profession - Judith Lorber Women Physicians - Elianne Riska and Katarina Wegar A New Force in Medicine? PART THREE: OTHER HEALTH …
Sociology in American medical education since the 1960s
The sociological significance of ambivalence
Sociology in American medical education since the 1960s
The sociological significance of ambivalence
Gender, Work and Medicine
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction - Elianne Riska PART TWO: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Sex Stereotyping of Women Doctors' Contribution to Medicine - S Muthu Chidambaram India Women Doctors in a Changing Profession - Mary Ann Elston The Case of Britain Why Women Physicians Will Never be True Equals in the American Medical Profession - Judith Lorber Women Physicians - Elianne Riska and Katarina Wegar A New Force in Medicine? PART THREE: OTHER HEALTH …
Adoption and mental health
The extant research on adoption and mental health is reviewed, and an alternative interactionist perspective is offered that acknowledges the social embeddedness of experiences of adoption and infertility. While cultural factors enter into the etiology and medical definition of all mental health problems, the particular importance of considering cultural components when addressing the needs of individuals who hold a stigmatized social status is e…
In search of bad mothers
Adoption, Identity and Kinship
In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by …
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records. Katarina Wegar. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1997. 169 pp. ISBN 0-300-06759-3. $22.50 cloth. In this book, Katarina Wegar, sociologist, attempts to make explicit the implicit assumptions that have shaped adoption and the debate over sealed records. She argues that adoption policies have been shaped by central assumption of differences, by patriarchal assumptions about the…
Adoption, Family Ideology, and Social Stigma
This article explores the impact of the dominant North American genetic family ideal on community attitudes toward adoption, on adoption research, and on the beliefs and attitudes of adoption case workers. It examines how the failure to recognize the stigmatized social position of adoptive families has shaped not only current public opinion about adoption, but adoption research and practice as well. In conclusion, the article offers suggestions f…
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Sociology (9 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Kinship (4 obras) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras)