Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. About the editors v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Introduction: What is human service ethnography? 1
6. Capturing professional relevance
7. Shadowing care workers when they’re ‘doing nothing’ 19
8. Two worlds of professional relevance in a small village 35
9. Capturing the organization of emotions in child welfare decision-making 49
10. Grasping empirical complexity
11. Sensitizing concepts in studies of homelessness and disability 67
12. Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice 83
13. Debating dementia care logics 101
14. Challenges of multi-sitedness
15. Social worlds of person-centred, multi-sited ethnography 119
16. ‘Facting’ in a case of concealed pregnancy 133
17. Ethnographic challenges of fragmented human services 153
18. Noticings from ethnographic distance
19. Ethnographic discovery after fieldwork on troubled youth 171
20. Looking beyond the police-as-control narrative 191
21. Embracing lessons from ethnography in non-Western prisons 209
22. Index 227