Time, Temporality and Child Welfare
Notes on the Materiality and Malleability of Time(s)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4355931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan White (0000-0003-1249-8603, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-74 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x98007001003 |
| OpenAlex | W1992208546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article presents data from a recently completed ethnographic study conducted in a British metropolitan social services department between 1993 and 1995. It argues that issues of time and temporality have central, but hitherto relatively neglected, analytic importance in understanding contemporary child welfare. It contends that rational `time(s)' may be classified both as `ordering' phenomena and as artefacts of social workers' situated ordering practices. So, while organizational rhythms form temporal patterns, social workers also make considerable use of rational time(s) in the construction of various types of accounts, particularly those of an `exonerative' nature. These references serve not only to preserve institutional realities, but also function as moral accounts, which maintain the consistency of the social workers' `altruistic' professional discourse during the course of morally tainted rationing activities
Consistency (knowledge bases · Economics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Function (biology · Health care · Metropolitan area · Political science · Positive economics · Rationing · Situated · Social science · Social Welfare · Sociology · Temporality · Welfare · Anthropology · Child Welfare and Adoption · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Social Work Education and Practice
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users
Making Time to Care, and Caring for Time
Temporal Attunements of Care
What About Their Future? An Analysis of Child Protection Systems' Focus on the Future of Newborn Children in Care Order Decisions
Speaking bodies – silenced voices
Five years in care
Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services
Revisiting Residential Care
Measurable time is governable time
Social change in developmental times? On 'changeability' and the uneven timings of child welfare interventions
Representing Children in Child Protection Assessments
The Basic Stuff of Our Memories
The Trouble With Fathers
Accomplishing 'the case' in paediatrics and child health
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
The Sociology of Time
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
The First Five Years of Life. A Guide to the Study of the Pre-School Child
Governing the Soul
Regulating mental health and motherhood in contemporary welfare services
Governing the Family
Feminist Social Theory Needs Time. Reflections on the Relation between Feminist Thought, Social Theory and Time as an Important Parameter in Social Analysis
Sociological Theory and the Space-Time Dimension of Social Systems
On Waiting
The Time-Consequences of Social Services
Timewatch
Hidden Rhythms
Studies in Social Interaction
"From Apprehension to Fascination With "Dog Lab
Patterns of Time in Hospital Life
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |