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

Abstract: 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.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1903

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Work Identity and Contradictory Experiences of Welfare Workers in a Life-history Perspective ; volume:13 ; number:3 ; day:29 ; month:09 ; year:2012 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 13, Heft 3 (29.09.2012)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Dybbroe, Betina

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-13.3.1903
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1203214
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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