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Malin Åkerström

Malin Åkerström

Professor emerita

Malin Åkerström

The Merry-Go-Round of Meetings : Embracing Meetings in a Swedish Youth Care Project

Författare

  • Malin Åkerström

Summary, in English

Modern society has been called “a society of organizations,” and meetings are considered indispensable. However, a recurring cultural theme in contemporary working life is complaints about excessive and time-consuming meetings. The present article analyzes a contrasting case concerning a Swedish youth care project that employed a set of “coordinators” to maintain close contact with young people and their parents. Over time, these coordinators adopted an exceedingly administrative approach in which meetings with other professionals became more and more central. This article explores how an expanding meeting culture with strong social commitments can be generated from within interorganizational contexts, such as “projects,” and successfully competes with other concerns. Thus, the administrative orientation represents an example of the type of social interaction process that Simmel discerned as Eigendynamik or autonomous processes of social interaction.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2019-01-02

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

50-64

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Sociological Focus

Volym

52

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

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

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0038-0237