Care, constraint, and collaboration : situating gender and power among multidisciplinary human service organizations.

interagency collaboration;gender;power;child welfare;families;bureaucracy;human services

Christa Jane Moore

University:University of Louisville

Department:Sociology

关键词: interagency collaboration;    gender;    power;    child welfare;    families;    bureaucracy;    human services;   

Others  :  https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3617&context=etd

美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

This study incorporated a feminist approach to the use of multiple qualitative methods by conducting participant observation, focus group interviewing, and in-depth interviewing of women and men affiliated with a diverse representation of human service organizations. An applied research partnership with a multi-county human service organization provided entrée to the study population. Through analytic induction using a grounded theoretical approach the study explored perceptions of power, authority, gender, inequality, and bureaucratic constraints that emerged during organizational processes of interagency collaboration among multidisciplinary human service organizations (Charmaz 2014; Corbin and Strauss 2014). Findings indicate that establishing relationships is critical for interagency collaboration to be effective; however, the lived experience of interagency collaboration is that ethics of care and care work are constrained by gendered power dynamics, primarily ethics of justice embedded in bureaucratically-structured human service organizations situated within a plurality of complexities. Further, tensions between bureaucracy and ethics of care are enacted through relative, subjective, and exclusionary forms of gendered and other types of intersectionally-situated bureaucratic power.