Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective

Transformation of the welfare sectors challenge professional identities of care and welfare workers in Scandinavia. At the same time welfare and care workers take part in these changes and are changed in the psycho-social setting of the workplace. This article presents research about care work in De...

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Main Author: Betina Dybbroe
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Language:deu
Published: FQS 2012-09-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1903
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spelling doaj-bb8f09bde50f4aa9aca2574e4fc8f4d62020-11-24T20:44:31ZdeuFQS Forum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272012-09-011331530Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history PerspectiveBetina Dybbroe0Roskilde UniversityTransformation of the welfare sectors challenge professional identities of care and welfare workers in Scandinavia. At the same time welfare and care workers take part in these changes and are changed in the psycho-social setting of the workplace. This article presents research about care work in Denmark with a focus on subjective processing of work identity, applying a psycho-societal theoretical and methodical approach. A life historical and experiential understanding of Alfred LORENZER's cultural theory is applied to understand societal transformations, here in the work place and of professionals in relation to their present scene of work and in relation to their life history. Two concepts are applied, interaction form and scenic understanding, because of their potentials for analyzing workers' experience. The analysis is based on a combined ethnographic and life historical investigation in nursing and involves a young nurse in scenes of the hospital, where gendered life history is re-enacted and present in a gendered work life with fragile possibilities of identification . Social dynamics interact with subjective dynamics in ways that illuminate not only habitual and creative orientations and practices of professionals in care, but also the contradictory transformations of the work, e.g. marketization and democratization in the work place. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1203214http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1903work identitygendered work-lifelife-historical subjectivitypsycho-societalinteraction form
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Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
work identity
gendered work-life
life-historical subjectivity
psycho-societal
interaction form
author_facet Betina Dybbroe
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title Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective
title_short Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective
title_full Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective
title_fullStr Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective
title_sort work identity and contradictory experiences of welfare workers in a life-history perspective
publisher FQS
series Forum: Qualitative Social Research
issn 1438-5627
publishDate 2012-09-01
description Transformation of the welfare sectors challenge professional identities of care and welfare workers in Scandinavia. At the same time welfare and care workers take part in these changes and are changed in the psycho-social setting of the workplace. This article presents research about care work in Denmark with a focus on subjective processing of work identity, applying a psycho-societal theoretical and methodical approach. A life historical and experiential understanding of Alfred LORENZER's cultural theory is applied to understand societal transformations, here in the work place and of professionals in relation to their present scene of work and in relation to their life history. Two concepts are applied, interaction form and scenic understanding, because of their potentials for analyzing workers' experience. The analysis is based on a combined ethnographic and life historical investigation in nursing and involves a young nurse in scenes of the hospital, where gendered life history is re-enacted and present in a gendered work life with fragile possibilities of identification . Social dynamics interact with subjective dynamics in ways that illuminate not only habitual and creative orientations and practices of professionals in care, but also the contradictory transformations of the work, e.g. marketization and democratization in the work place. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1203214
topic work identity
gendered work-life
life-historical subjectivity
psycho-societal
interaction form
url http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1903
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