Personlig assistans i praktiken : Beredskap initiativ och vänskaplighet
Personal Assistance in Practice : Preparedness, Initiative and Friendliness
Author
Summary, in English
This dissertation deals with personal assistance services (PAS) in the Swedish context. The aim is to illuminate and understand how personal assistance is carried out socially. To explore this, an ethnographic field study was conducted. The field study focused on face-to-face interaction of adult users with physical impairments and their personal assistants. Analysis and interpretation of the empirical material was primarily guided by Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective and concepts. Results show that the users and their personal assistants balance and shift between different modes of interacting with and approaching each other; by doing so they create and withhold definitions of the situations that are crucial for carrying out personal assistance services. “Preparedness” refers to their passivity, but also readiness, in situations when the users and personal assistants are idle. “Initiative” refers to their negotiations, but also agreements, concerning how the practical help of the personal assistance should be carried out. “Friendliness” refers to their small talk but also to the informal way of approaching each other.
Department/s
Publishing year
2011
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Lund Dissertations In Social Work
Volume
42
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Social Work
Keywords
- Personal assistance services
- personal assistant
- personal attendant
- consumer direction
- disability
- ethnography
- field study
- face-to-face interaction
- dramaturgical perspective Erving Goffman
- definition of the situation
- performance Personlig assistans
- Erving Goffman
- personlig assistent
- brukarstyrning
- funktionshinder
- etnografi
- fältarbete
- dramaturgiskt perspektiv
- situationsdefinitioner
- Erving Goffman
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1650-3872
- ISBN: 978-91-89604-49-0
Defence date
25 March 2011
Defence time
13:15
Defence place
Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, Hus H, Lund
Opponent
- Jonas Aspelin (Docent)