Chapter 11 Emotional Capital in Caring Work

Virkki, Tuija

doi:10.1016/s1746-9791(07)03011-8

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“…New situations and practical demands may catalyse the development of emotional capital, but it can also remain out of reach for individuals not steeped in specific occupational subcultures (as documented by Cahill, 1999, in his study of mortuary students). Each individual configuration of emotional capital may be unique, but capital developed in response to the practical demands of carework might have consistent features, such as the masking of anger/ frustration, cultivation of compassion and empathy for suffering others, and embodied knowledge of how to comfort and communicate with others (Virkki, 2007).…”

Section: Integrating Emotional Capital Into Work-family Spillovermentioning

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The Constant Caregiver: Work–family Spillover among Men and Women in Nursing

Cottingham

Chapman

Erickson

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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Work–family spillover is a central concept in the work and occupations literature, with prior research detailing its negative outcomes and gendered dimensions. With increased demands for careworkers and more men entering occupations such as nursing, we examine experiences and perceptions of spillover using qualitative data from a diverse sample of 48 US nurses. We find similarities across men and women in terms of exhaustion and stress as well as in anticipating spillover in their careers. Yet, we also find some differences, with men (but not women) highlighting the transfer of emotional capital between work and family. We extend work–family research by broadening the concept of spillover to include its anticipation and the transfer of emotional capital – both aspects that have been previously under-examined. These findings have implications for the retention and support of careworkers and refine the concept of spillover in ways that could apply to various employment sectors.

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Section: Integrating Emotional Capital Into Work-family Spillovermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Constant Caregiver: Work–family Spillover among Men and Women in Nursing

Cottingham

Chapman

Erickson

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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“…Virkki (2007) theorizes this type of demarcation using Bourdieu: BFor Bourdieu, the formation of one's capital is based on social exclusion: one's possession of capital requires that some others lack it^(p. 275). In this way, emotional capital marks social boundaries and maintains hierarchies of distinction, making it a force for stratification.…”

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“…For her, women's role in the family supplies them with more emotional capital than men. Following this logic, emotional capital has been developed and applied primarily to studies of education and family (Colley 2006;Gillies 2006;Nixon 2011;O'Brien 2008;Reay 2000Reay , 2004Reid 2009;Zemblyas 2007), though research in the sociology of occupations has begun to use the concept (Cahill 1999;Schweingruber and Berns 2005), particularly in healthcare (Erickson and Stacey 2013;Husso and Hirvonen 2012;Stacey 2011;Virkki 2007). Below I outline three conceptual limitations in this prior work on emotional capital: (1) the concept has been inconsistently linked to gender, (2) its use often conflates capital with practice, and (3) it has been inconsistently theorized as static or dynamic over time.…”

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Theorizing emotional capital

2016

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Theorizing a sociology of emotion that links micro-level resources to macrolevel forces, this article extends previous work on emotional capital in relation to emotional experiences and management. Emerging from Bourdieu's theory of social practice, emotional capital is a form of cultural capital that includes the emotionspecific, trans-situational resources that individuals activate and embody in distinct fields. Contrary to prior conceptualizations, I argue that emotional capital is neither wholly gender-neutral nor exclusively feminine. Men may lay claim to emotional capital as a valued resource within particular fields. The concept of emotional capital should be seen as distinct from emotion management and felt emotional experience and distinctions between primary and secondary sources of capital clarify the simultaneously durable and evolving nature of capital and the habitus. To illustrate these conceptual refinements, I use interview and diary data from male nurses. Men bring primary emotional capital, developed during primary socialization, to the nursing profession while also developing secondary capital through occupational socialization centered on empathy and compassion. The construct of emotional capital is refined as a structured yet dynamic resource developed through primary and secondary socialization and activated and embodied in everyday emotion practice.

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“…Similarly, though more recently, theory on emotion has called for a shift toward an emotion-as-practice approach in which emotion is seen as both the outcome and configuration of resources situationally activated and embodied by constrained actors (Erickson & Stacey, 2013;Scheer, 2012). Much of the research in this domain has focused on emotional resources or capital (Cahill, 1999;Reay, 2000;Virkki, 2007;Zemblyas, 2007) rather than developing a robust conception of emotion as a form of practice.…”

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Caring moments and their men: masculine emotion practice in nursing

Cottingham

2017

NORMA

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Chapter 11 Emotional Capital in Caring Work

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

The Constant Caregiver: Work–family Spillover among Men and Women in Nursing

The Constant Caregiver: Work–family Spillover among Men and Women in Nursing

Theorizing emotional capital

Caring moments and their men: masculine emotion practice in nursing

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