Fashioning a Proper Institutional Position: Professional Identity Work in the Triadic Structure of the Care Planning Conference
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In: Qualitative Social Work, Vol. 10, No. 3, 09.2011, p. 293-310.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Fashioning a Proper Institutional Position
T2 - Professional Identity Work in the Triadic Structure of the Care Planning Conference
AU - Hitzler, Sarah
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - Professionals do not only, as is today widely agreed on, work to construct institutionally workable identities for their clients in interaction, they also have to carry out substantial identity work themselves. Such work can be considerably more complicated in interactions which have a triadic structure, i.e. in which professionals from two different institutions and clients interact, demanding of professionals to invoke situational identities which match their relationships towards each other as well as towards the clients. By discussing the identity work of two professionals in a care planning conference, this article traces the difficulties that such a structure presents to practitioners. In addition, it sets out to show how ethnomethodologically informed membership categorization analysis and positioning analysis, as it was developed by discursive psychology, can be combined in the analysis of social work interactions in order to shed light on the identity work of social work professionals.
AB - Professionals do not only, as is today widely agreed on, work to construct institutionally workable identities for their clients in interaction, they also have to carry out substantial identity work themselves. Such work can be considerably more complicated in interactions which have a triadic structure, i.e. in which professionals from two different institutions and clients interact, demanding of professionals to invoke situational identities which match their relationships towards each other as well as towards the clients. By discussing the identity work of two professionals in a care planning conference, this article traces the difficulties that such a structure presents to practitioners. In addition, it sets out to show how ethnomethodologically informed membership categorization analysis and positioning analysis, as it was developed by discursive psychology, can be combined in the analysis of social work interactions in order to shed light on the identity work of social work professionals.
KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics
KW - care planning
KW - interaction
KW - professional identity
KW - membership categorization analysis
KW - coalition building
KW - interaction building
KW - care planning
KW - conference
KW - coalition building
KW - interaction
KW - membership categorization analysis
KW - positioning
KW - analysis
KW - professional identity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053582167&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1473325011409476
DO - 10.1177/1473325011409476
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 10
SP - 293
EP - 310
JO - Qualitative Social Work
JF - Qualitative Social Work
SN - 1473-3250
IS - 3
ER -