Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

5 ny

David Wästerfors

Professor

5 ny

Doing Normalcy. Attractive interactions for teenage boys with disabilities

Författare

  • David Wästerfors

Summary, in English

The contemporary expansion of diagnoses is a well-known phenomenon. What is rarely investigated, however, are people’s subtle ways of deconstructing medical stigmas in everyday interactions. This article, based on an ethnographic study of a recreational activity for teenage boys with diverse diagnoses and disabilities (for instance, Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD, and cerebral pares), shows how a de-stigmatizing “normalcy” may be interactively and situationally maintained in the periphery of a society’s health care system. The studied activity takes place in a garage setting and is built around repair work on an old American car. The practical and mundane elements of this activity, analyzed thematically as “garage work”, “the jargon”, “doing nothing”, and “a coffee ritual”, proved to supply significant occasions for deconstructing stigmatized selves in undramatic ways.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Sociological Research

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • disability
  • diagnoses
  • stigma
  • sociology
  • interaction
  • normalcy
  • sociologi

Status

Inpress

Forskningsgrupp

  • Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk