Christopher Hall and Tanja Dall
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447356639
- eISBN:
- 9781447356677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447356639.003.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
The chapter reviews the literature on meetings and examines analytical concepts which are developed in later chapters of the book. Meetings are approached as social and interactional occasions which ...
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The chapter reviews the literature on meetings and examines analytical concepts which are developed in later chapters of the book. Meetings are approached as social and interactional occasions which invoke and formulate organisational work. The chapter outlines literature which approaches meetings as rituals and ceremonies, in particular degradation and integration ceremonies. Key concepts are examined which consider talk and interaction in meetings, such as the structure of meetings, the role of the chair, turn-taking, topic progression and decision making.Less
The chapter reviews the literature on meetings and examines analytical concepts which are developed in later chapters of the book. Meetings are approached as social and interactional occasions which invoke and formulate organisational work. The chapter outlines literature which approaches meetings as rituals and ceremonies, in particular degradation and integration ceremonies. Key concepts are examined which consider talk and interaction in meetings, such as the structure of meetings, the role of the chair, turn-taking, topic progression and decision making.
Kirsi Juhila, Lisa Morriss, and Suvi Raitakari
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447356639
- eISBN:
- 9781447356677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447356639.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
The chapter examines mental health meetings undertaken as part of the Care Programme Approach context in England. It applies the concepts of epistemic status and rights in analysing the ownership of ...
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The chapter examines mental health meetings undertaken as part of the Care Programme Approach context in England. It applies the concepts of epistemic status and rights in analysing the ownership of knowledge concerning service users’ recent histories. The analysis demonstrates how both service users and professionals who are close to service users’ everyday lives display access and ownership to that knowledge. The key finding is that meetings contain both collaborative practices that strengthen service user participation (integration ceremony) and practices that produce epistemic injustice for service users (degradation ceremony).Less
The chapter examines mental health meetings undertaken as part of the Care Programme Approach context in England. It applies the concepts of epistemic status and rights in analysing the ownership of knowledge concerning service users’ recent histories. The analysis demonstrates how both service users and professionals who are close to service users’ everyday lives display access and ownership to that knowledge. The key finding is that meetings contain both collaborative practices that strengthen service user participation (integration ceremony) and practices that produce epistemic injustice for service users (degradation ceremony).
Renée L. Beard
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479800117
- eISBN:
- 9781479855377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479800117.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter depicts the subjective experience of being cognitively evaluated for Alzheimer’s at specialty clinics, which arguably amounts to a degradation ceremony. Drawing on medical sociology’s ...
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This chapter depicts the subjective experience of being cognitively evaluated for Alzheimer’s at specialty clinics, which arguably amounts to a degradation ceremony. Drawing on medical sociology’s long history of research on the effect and socially contingent nature of various medical conditions, technologies, and the sciences more broadly, findings demonstrate the myriad factors influencing the interactions between science and its technologies on the one hand, and people seeking medical care on the other. The common experience of cognitive evaluation is one of feeling exposed, confused, and overwhelmed. Everyday personal struggles to manage awkward and foreign symptoms are mirrored by the environment in which patients find themselves evaluated and the highly standardized battery of tests and clinical interactions they experience. Individuals being evaluated thus utilize various strategies to minimize social awkwardness and normalize clinical interactions.Less
This chapter depicts the subjective experience of being cognitively evaluated for Alzheimer’s at specialty clinics, which arguably amounts to a degradation ceremony. Drawing on medical sociology’s long history of research on the effect and socially contingent nature of various medical conditions, technologies, and the sciences more broadly, findings demonstrate the myriad factors influencing the interactions between science and its technologies on the one hand, and people seeking medical care on the other. The common experience of cognitive evaluation is one of feeling exposed, confused, and overwhelmed. Everyday personal struggles to manage awkward and foreign symptoms are mirrored by the environment in which patients find themselves evaluated and the highly standardized battery of tests and clinical interactions they experience. Individuals being evaluated thus utilize various strategies to minimize social awkwardness and normalize clinical interactions.
