Doing Human Service Ethnography

Katarina Jacobsson is Professor of Social Work at Lund University in Sweden. Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Missouri in the US.

• Part One: Capturing Professional RelevanceShadowing Care Workers When They’re “Doing Nothing” ~ Doris LydahlTwo Worlds of Professional Relevance in a Small Village ~ Christal AvendalCapturing the Organization of Emotions in Child Welfare Decision-Making ~ Tea Torbenfeldt BengtssonPart Two: Grasping Empirical ComplexitySensitizing Concepts in Studies of Homelessness and Disability ~ Nanna Mik-MeyerGrasping the Social Life of Documents in Human Service Practice ~ Emilie Morwenna WhitakerDebating Dementia Care Logics ~ Cintia Engel, Janaina Aredes & Annette Leibing Part Three: Challenges Of Multi-SitednessSocial Worlds of Person-Centered, Multi-Sited Ethnography ~ Aleksandra Bartoszko “Facting” in a Case of Concealed Pregnancy ~ Lucy SheehanEthnographic Challenges of Fragmented Human Services ~ Tarja PösöPART Four: Noticings From Ethnographic DistanceEthnographic Discovery after Fieldwork on Troubled Youth ~ Malin Ǻkerström & David WästerforsLooking Beyond the Police-as-Control Narrative ~ David SausdalEmbracing Lessons from Ethnography in Non-Western Prison ~ Andrew M. Jefferson