Disputes and Going Concerns in an Institution for "Troublesome" Boys

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2365332
AutoresDavid Wästerfors (0000-0001-6271-5659, Lund University, Lund, Sweden,, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume40
Fascículo1
Páginas39-70
Data de publicação2011-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241610377199
OpenAlexW2137586185
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas23

Everett C. Hughes's classic concept of a "going concern" should stand for both entire institutions and for chains of activities within institutions. In this article the author explores this expanded version of Hughes's concept to show how staff and residents in a youth care setting interweave everyday concerns-meals, lessons, breaks, meetings, or other mundane but concerted projects-with interpersonal disputes. The author thereby offers a more nuanced understanding of how antagonist actors in institutions invoke daily affairs. The author also raises questions about the conditions under which adults can impose concerns for youth in care to preserve social order and the conditions under which youth can make trouble to criticize adults' imposed concerns

Business · Institution · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Order (exchange · Political science · Public relations · Social institution · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Community Health and Development · Law · Social Work Education and Practice