Doing Ambivalence: Embracing Innovation – at Arm’s Length
Författare
Summary, in English
This article considers the social organization of responses among human service staff to changes in public policy, using a study of a Swedish treatment center for juveniles as an illustration. The stance towards a new treatment ideology, “family-work,” was not one of either accepting or rejecting the new policy; the staff conveyed both embracing and distancing. Policy innovations, it is argued, create conditions that work as a catalyst for “doing ambivalence,” an accommodative rhetoric that integrates the new and delicately express reservations.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
57-74
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Social Problems
Volym
53
Issue
1
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- rhetoric
- rehabilitation
- youth center
- sociologi
- juvenile delinquents
- care
- organizational changes
- family care
- sociology
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0037-7791