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The morality of knowledge claims aboutADHDin radio phone-ins

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2249379
AutoresW Versteeg (0000-0002-5206-3092, Utrecht University, autor correspondente), Hedwig Te Molder (0000-0002-0599-8338, Department of Social Sciences/Strategic Communication University of Wageningen Wageningen the Netherlands)
Ano2018
Volume40
Fascículo4
Páginas718-734
Data de publicação2018-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12720
PMID29582444
OpenAlexW2794817392
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas43

Drawing on a corpus of radio phone-ins, we present a discursive psychological analysis of how mothers carefully tailor their knowledge claims regarding their children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Mothers typically claim knowledge about their children's good intentions, but not about the 'ADHD-ness' of their conduct. Whereas the former is seen as appropriate knowledge for a concerned parent, the latter is treated as a matter of expert knowledge. We show that as soon as problematic behaviour is treated as observable from the outside and describable by mothers and other lay persons, it becomes vulnerable to being formulated as 'normal disobedience', rather than symptomatic of a professionally administered, doctorable condition. We argue that it is important to be aware of the moralities hidden in knowledge claims, as they help sustain an unproductive perspective in which either the child's brain or his mother is blamed for behaviour perceived as problematic

Epistemology · Linguistics · Morality · Perspective (graphical · Phone · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Social Psychology