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| Title | Contesting identity of homemakers: Housewife worker and daughter? |
| Creator | 王增勇 Wang, Frank Tsen-Yung |
| Contributor | 社工所 |
| Key Words | Home care; Subjectivity; Critical ethnography; Family discourse; Home-care worker |
| Date | 2002 |
| Date Issued | 20-Aug-2014 15:06:38 (UTC+8) |
| Summary | One of the administrative dilemmas in home-care delivery is that an appropriate and trusting relationship between the home-care worker and the client must be developed; yet this relationship is not readily visible to service managers. Setting up organizational processes for building allegiance and turning the home-care worker into an ideal one become major administrative tasks for home-care managers. Within such organizational context, the home-care worker is then faced with the issue of developing her own identity. This study lays out the Chinese particulars of what being a home-care worker is all about on the ground in Taiwan. In the Chinese context of family and cultural prerogatives around filial daughter and doing good, being a worker (agency perspective) and being a daughter (client`s desire) are both problematic. Many home-care workers view themselves as a do-gooder portrayed by the Buddhist discourse of karma. The findings suggest that administrative tasks, client, and worker relationship may appear similar on the surface but the dynamics are quite different. |
| Relation | Journal of Aging Studies, No.16, pp.37-55 |
| Type | article |
| dc.contributor | 社工所 | en_US |
| dc.creator (作者) | 王增勇 | zh_TW |
| dc.creator (作者) | Wang, Frank Tsen-Yung | en_US |
| dc.date (日期) | 2002 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 20-Aug-2014 15:06:38 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 20-Aug-2014 15:06:38 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 20-Aug-2014 15:06:38 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/68951 | - |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | One of the administrative dilemmas in home-care delivery is that an appropriate and trusting relationship between the home-care worker and the client must be developed; yet this relationship is not readily visible to service managers. Setting up organizational processes for building allegiance and turning the home-care worker into an ideal one become major administrative tasks for home-care managers. Within such organizational context, the home-care worker is then faced with the issue of developing her own identity. This study lays out the Chinese particulars of what being a home-care worker is all about on the ground in Taiwan. In the Chinese context of family and cultural prerogatives around filial daughter and doing good, being a worker (agency perspective) and being a daughter (client`s desire) are both problematic. Many home-care workers view themselves as a do-gooder portrayed by the Buddhist discourse of karma. The findings suggest that administrative tasks, client, and worker relationship may appear similar on the surface but the dynamics are quite different. | en_US |
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| dc.language.iso | en_US | - |
| dc.relation (關聯) | Journal of Aging Studies, No.16, pp.37-55 | en_US |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | Home care; Subjectivity; Critical ethnography; Family discourse; Home-care worker | en_US |
| dc.title (題名) | Contesting identity of homemakers: Housewife worker and daughter? | en_US |
| dc.type (資料類型) | article | en |