ENTREVISTAS COM O ASSISTENTE SOCIAL: IDENTIDADE, DOENÇA E ESTIGMA EM UMA ENFERMARIA DE ADOLESCENTES / INTERVIEWS WITH SOCIAL WORKERS: IDENTITY, DISEASE AND STIGMA IN AN ADOLESCENT WARD

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The dissertation Interviews with social workers - identity, disease and stigma in an adolescent ward investigates the construction of identities of three adolescents assisted at a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Through the analysis of social workers interviews with these adolescents, and their mothers, we aimed at observing how the disease and its consequences were linked to the identities constructed in a situation of face-to-face interaction. The categories used in the analysis were positioning, alignment, interactive frame, contextualization cues and narrative. From an Interactional Socilolinguistics perspective, we assume an interdisciplinary view, using concepts from other areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, such as Social Psychology and Cultural Studies. The investigation reveals how adolescent-patients, and their mothers, deal with physical and social differences caused by diseases. The research findings point to the construction of different identities for those adolescents through their discourses, and their mothers´, according to the relation they had with the stigma. It was also observed how the meaning of the disease was built during the interaction situation with the social workers. The purpose of relating the construction of the stigma to participants´ positionings and alignments in the interaction made possible to observe how the adolescents and their families deal with the social construction of the disease. This kind of analysis may contribute to discourse studies which investigate the relation between language, identity and society. The study can also contribute to the discussion of services provided to working class adolescents, who have difficulties to integrate in social life, due to health problems.

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positioning alinhamento footing narrative identidade identity stigma narrativa estigma posicionamento

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