Expressing and Examining Morality in Everyday Life

Social Comparisons among Swedish Parents of Deaf Children

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ID12875452
AuthorsMalin Akerstrom (0000-0002-9780-7569, Lund University, corresponding author), Katarina Jacobsson (0000-0001-6897-2162, Lund University)
Year2009
Volume5
Issue2
Pages54-69
Publication date2009-08-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077
PublisherUniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18778/1733-8077.5.2.03
OpenAlexW1514933927
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

Social comparisons, seeing oneself in relation to others, are universal, common, and perhaps even necessary. In a study of parents of deaf children, intense, open, and mutual examinations were voiced in parental groups, meetings between parents and professionals, and interviews. These comparisons were generated in a specific situation created by successful claims for separate milieus advocated by the Deaf movement. The local culture, “the deaf world,” was characterized by close proximity and a highly charged ideological moral climate. With the central argument that strong integration breeds comparisons and examinations, we conclude that the integration of parents creates a situation perfect for drawing comparisons, creating not only cohesion, but also renewed separatist distinctions, expressed in terms of moral examinations, competition and envy. Studying the content and details of comparisons in any given field makes the particular morality that is bred, fed, and elaborated obvious

Argument (complex analysis · Cohesion (chemistry · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Field (mathematics · Ideology · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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