Prahy Domova Z: Etnografie konektivity v pobytové sociální službě

Year, pages: 2023, 269 - 292

In this ethnographic study, I describe daily life at Home Z, an asylum for 100 residents. I explore the tensions between the inclusive orientation of social services and the system of the total institution. Based on actor-network theory and on Goffman’s model of the total institution, I develop a methodological tool of semi-permeable socio-material thresholds in order to investigate the question of residents’ connectivity with people, things, and places beyond the authority of the institution. In so doing, as I aim for a deeper understanding of the formation of specific institutional spaces, I discover that Home Z's residents are living on an island that is kept continuously separated from the sea of wider society.

Carboch, R. 2023. Prahy Domova Z: Etnografie konektivity v pobytové sociální službě. In Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, vol. 55, no.3, pp. 269-292. 0049-1225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2023.55.3.10

Carboch, R. (2023). Prahy Domova Z: Etnografie konektivity v pobytové sociální službě. Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 55(3), 269-292. 0049-1225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2023.55.3.10

Publisher: Sociologický ústav SAV, v. v. i. / The Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences