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Malin Åkerström

Malin Åkerström

Professor emerita

Malin Åkerström

Expressing and Examining Morality in Everyday Life: Social Comparisons among Swedish Parents of Deaf Children

Författare

  • Malin Åkerström
  • Katarina Jacobsson

Summary, in English

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.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi
  • Socialhögskolan

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

54-69

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Qualitative Sociology Review

Volym

5

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Lodz University

Ämne

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

Nyckelord

  • Deaf culture
  • sign-language
  • hard-of-hearing
  • identity work
  • everyday life
  • morality
  • social comparisons
  • Sweden
  • Integration

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1733-8077