PRAHY DOMOVA Z: ETNOGRAFIE KONEKTIVITY V POBYTOVÉ SOCIÁLNÍ SLUŽBĚ

• Authors: Carboch Radek

Title variants

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Thresholds of Home Z: An ethnography of connectivity in residential social service

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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In this ethnographic study, I describe daily life at Home Z, an asylum for 100 residents. I explore the tensions between the inclusive orientation of social services and the system of the total institution. Based on actor-network theory and on Goffman’s model of the total institution, I develop a methodological tool of semi-permeable socio-material thresholds in order to investigate the question of residents’ connectivity with people, things, and places beyond the authority of the institution. In so doing, as I aim for a deeper understanding of the formation of specific institutional spaces, I discover that Home Z's residents are living on an island that is kept continuously separated from the sea of wider society.

Keywords

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CONNECTIVITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; RESIDENTIAL SOCIAL SERVICE

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 269 – 292

Contributors

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Carboch Radek

• Katedra aplikovaných sociálních věd, Fakulta humanitních studií, Univerzita Karlova, Praha, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2023.55.3.10