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Ann Mari Sellerberg

Ann Mari Sellerberg

Professor emerita

Ann Mari Sellerberg

Alternative care practitioners: Creating commitment in an unstructured occupation

Author

  • Ann Mari Sellerberg

Summary, in English

The article opposes the view that marginality is a decisive trait of Swedish alternative care practitioners. Instead, factors such as the structural looseness of these occupational roles and the fact that the practitioners belong to no specific work organization is stressed. The practitioners have to demonstrate the legitimacy of their work and enforce the boundaries around their work ethics by themselves. These outward presentations of work selves-function as socio-psychological side bets in that the alternative care practitioners seem to create their own strong work commitments—what they detested most were the non-committed, the cynics.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

1989-10-01

Language

English

Pages

55-67

Publication/Series

International Review of Modern Sociology

Volume

19

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Serials Publications

Topic

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

Keywords

  • Betting
  • Acupuncture
  • Cynicism
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Diseases
  • Migraine
  • Complementary therapies
  • Occupations
  • Tales
  • Marginalization

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0973-2047