Generic Social Processes: Reimagining a Conceptual Schema for Grounded Theory in the Contemporary Era

Puddephatt, Antony J.; McLuhan, Arthur

doi:10.1080/00380237.2018.1544515

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“…We believe that future research might press further than we have in conceiving “dirty work” as a generic social process (Blumer 1969; Grills 2020; McLuhan and Puddephatt 2019; Prus 1996; Puddephatt and McLuhan 2019). Treating “dirty work” as a generic process would allow us to observe how it comes to be identified, defined, re‐evaluated, negotiated, and incorporated into occupational identities, activities, and organizations over time and through careers .…”

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“…As Zerubavel (2007:142) notes, generic concepts such as this enable us to expand our sociological imagination, and allow fields as close as poker and chess, and as distinct as hustling and medicine, to be usefully compared. 4 We believe that future research might press further than we have in conceiving "dirty work" as a generic social process (Blumer 1969;Grills 2020;McLuhan and Puddephatt 2019;Prus 1996;Puddephatt and McLuhan 2019). Treating "dirty work" as a generic process would allow us to observe how it comes to be identified, defined, re-evaluated, negotiated, and incorporated into occupational identities, activities, and organizations over time and through careers.…”

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“…Drawing on grounded theory methods (Charmaz 2014; Glaser and Strauss 1967; Puddephatt and McLuhan 2019; Strauss and Corbin 1997), the data for this ethnographic study was gathered over a nine‐month period in 2017. It is based on 110 hours of participant‐observation at two not‐for‐profit homeless shelters, and 24 face‐to‐face interviews with caseworkers.…”

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Reframing “Dirty Work”: The Case of Homeless Shelter Workers

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Puddephatt

2020

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Drawing on ethnographic research in a homeless shelter, this article examines how caseworkers navigate an occupation that is often physically and morally trying, and at times, objectionable. Given this context, we examine the ways in which caseworkers identify and define "dirty work," often seen as a source of occupational degradation, according to two main typifications: the physical and the moral. Building on Erving Goffman's frame analysis, we examine the definitional and interactional strategies actors use to transform unpleasant first-order realities to more valued, meaningful, or workable second order realities, by keying particular frames of meaning. These involve framing dirty work through (1) a professional lens, (2) humanism and egalitarianism, (3) a negotiated interpretation of institutional rules, and (4) the use of humor. We conclude by reflecting on the constructed nature of dirty work, and the importance of framing strategies in the sociology of occupations, suggesting that a more generic application of these ideas may be useful across a number of other social contexts.

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Reframing “Dirty Work”: The Case of Homeless Shelter Workers

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2020

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“…Our particular study of how people in a digitally connected society use their smartphones in public points towards sociological interactionist analyses that extend what was established more than 50 years ago. Accordingly, sociological interest should be directed towards not only the empirical phenomena of ubiquitous personal communication technologies, but also towards the theoretical development of an interactionist sociology relevant for the 21st century, in which agency is distributed and negotiated among both human and nonhuman actors [54]. With this motivation we have emphasized the study of face-to-face conversations-and the smartphone's place in such conversations-in order to be able to scrutinise what is otherwise commonly reproduced as superficial myths about everyone "being glued to their screens" in a society without face-to-face conversation.…”

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The Constitutive Practices of Public Smartphone Use

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The smartphone has become the most ubiquitous piece of personal technology, giving it significant social importance and sociological relevance. In this article, we explore how the smartphone interacts with and impacts social interaction in the setting of the urban café. Through analyzing 52 spontaneous in-depth interviews related to social interaction in cafés, we identify three categories of smartphone use in social settings: interaction suspension, deliberately shielding interaction, and accessing shareables. These categories comprise the constitutive smartphone practices that define the social order of public smartphone use within an interactionist sociological framework.

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“…For a recent discussion of the examination of generic social processes in the context of constructivist grounded theory see Puddephatt and McLuhan (2019). …”

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Understanding Everyday Life: Generic Social Processes and the Pursuit of Transcontextuality

Grills

2019

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This paper joins earlier interactionist projects in advocating for an analytical attentiveness to generic social process (GSP). This dynamic form of theorizing is indebted to the thought of Herbert Blumer and the extended phenomenological and pragmatist traditions. Rather centrally, the study of GSPs draws upon the foundational concepts of duration, intersubjectivity, and the self. Such concepts have contributed to some of symbolic interactionism's most enduring, empirically grounded and theoretically robust work. Drawing on a series of ethnographic research projects, this paper offers a research agenda for engaging GSPs transcontextually. Specifically, I argue for extending the study of GSPs through the examination of management in everyday life, the creation of subcultural value, and the social construction of doubt.

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Generic Social Processes: Reimagining a Conceptual Schema for Grounded Theory in the Contemporary Era

Cited by 11 publications

References 48 publications

Reframing “Dirty Work”: The Case of Homeless Shelter Workers

Reframing “Dirty Work”: The Case of Homeless Shelter Workers

The Constitutive Practices of Public Smartphone Use

Understanding Everyday Life: Generic Social Processes and the Pursuit of Transcontextuality

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