• Login / Register
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Faculty of Social Science
    • Social and Political Science
    • Social and Political Science
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Faculty of Social Science
    • Social and Political Science
    • Social and Political Science
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of ChesterRepCommunitiesTitleAuthorsPublication DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournalThis CollectionTitleAuthorsPublication DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournalProfilesView

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About

    AboutUniversity of Chester

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Doing Care, Doing Difference. Informal Care, Emotional Dynamics and Social Change

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Authors
    Pratesi, Alessandro
    Affiliation
    University of Pennsylvania
    Publication Date
    2008
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Broadening and intertwining the conceptual categories of care, gender, and emotion, this dissertation discusses the dynamics of inclusion/exclusion and the consequent outcomes of inequality people produce while caring for others. It reports preliminary findings relating to a micro-situated study of daily caring activities among upper-middle class caregivers, both gay and non-gay. The focus is on informal care, seen as a strategic site to grasp deeper insights into the interactional mechanisms through which normative structures of subordination or superordination are daily constructed. By looking at the inner interactive dimensions of informal care, it is argued that, in doing care, people create forms of emotional stratification at the micro-level that affect their social positioning at the macro-level. The consideration of gay and non-gay caregivers in a broader phenomenological perspective provides us with new empirical evidence on how deeply people are embedded in gender systems and cultural beliefs; but it also highlights how individuals, by managing the emotions involved in care work, create the conditions to produce social change. By putting emotion at the center of the routine interactional processes of informal care and pointing to the different dimensions of difference, the findings from this research show the necessity of new theoretical and methodological approaches to investigate informal care.
    Citation
    Pratesi, A. (2008). Doing care, doing difference: Informal care, emotional dynamics and social change. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/304493496
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10034/582973
    Additional Links
    http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3328638
    Type
    Thesis
    Language
    en_US
    Description
    This thesis is not available through ChesterRep
    Sponsors
    University of Pennsylvania
    Collections
    Social and Political Science

    entitlement

     
    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2021)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.