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Malin Åkerström

Malin Åkerström

Professor emerita

Malin Åkerström

Slaps, Punches, Pinches -- But not Violence: Boundary Work in Nursing Homes for the Elderly

Författare

  • Malin Åkerström

Summary, in English

The article presents an analysis of boundary work within the context of care for the elderly, where violence appears to be widespread though still relatively unacknowledged. By resorting to certain descriptive – often jocular – modes, the staff designate aggressive acts committed by patients as 'non-violent'. This occurs although intent, responsibility, and injury – all common criteria associated with violence – are partly present in the descriptions. It is suggested that this combination of tendencies is an artful way of simultaneously presenting the nurses as competent caregivers rather than controllers -- in spite of reported difficulties.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2002

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

515-536

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Symbolic Interaction

Volym

25

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

University of California Press

Ämne

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

Nyckelord

  • care
  • homes for elderly
  • nurses
  • constructionism
  • violence
  • elderly
  • sociologi
  • aggression
  • sociology
  • decriptive work
  • boundary work

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0195-6086