The Cultural Study of Work

This anthology brings more than fifty years of scholarship of the culture and sociology of work into a vivid introductory and analytical textbook. Sociologists have long sought to understand the universal activity of work from the point of view of the wor

Introduction

Douglas Harper and Helene M. Lawson

xi

Part I. Work as Social Interaction

1

(50)

1. Teamwork in the Operating Room

7

(14)

Robert N. Wilson

2. Manufacturing Motherhood: The Shadow Work of Nannies and Au Pairs

21

(30)

Cameron L. Macdonald

Part II. Socialization and Identity

51

(108)

3. The Fate of Idealism in Medical School

65

(10)

Howard S. Becker and Blanche Geer

4. Occupational Aesthetics: How Trade School Students Learn to Cook

75

(21)

Gary Alan Fine

5. Incorporation and Mechanical Solidarity in an Underground Coal Mine

96

(20)

Charles Vaught and David L. Smith

6. Dancing with Identity: Narrative Resistance Strategies of Male and Female Stripteasers

116

(14)

Carol Rambo Ronai and Rebecca Cross

7. Careers

130

(9)

Everett C. Hughes

8. Career Concerns and Mobility Motivations of Orchestra Musicians

139

(20)

Robert R. Faulkner

Part III. Experiencing Work

159

(114)

A. Work as Practical Accomplishment

9. The Social Construction of Truth: Editing an Encyclopedia

168

(13)

Graham Tomlinson

10. Baseball Magic

181

(11)

George Gmelch

11. The Police on Skid-Row: A Study of Peace Keeping

192

(18)

Egon Bittner

B. The Social Construction of Emotions in Work

12. The Slanted Smile Factory: Emotion Management in Tokyo Disneyland

210

(18)

Aviad E. Raz

13. Learning Real Feelings: A Study of High Steel Ironworkers' Reactions to Fear and Danger

228

(18)

Jack Haas

C. Work and Time

14. From Night to Day: Timing and the Management of Custodial Work

246

(15)

Jane C. Hood

15. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

261

(28)

Artie Russell Hochschild

Part IV. Work Cultures and Social Structure

273

(142)

A. Cultures of Blue-Collar Work

16. "Banana Time": Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction

289

(24)

Donald F. Roy

17. Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line

313

(22)

William E. Thompson

B. Cultures of the Professions, Semiprofessions, and Service Occupations

18. Annoying Owners: Routine Interactions with Problematic Clients in a General Veterinary Practice

335

(12)

Clinton R. Sanders

19. Occupational Claims to Professionalism: The Case of Paralegals

347

(23)

Kathryn J. Lively

20. Working on Hair

370

(27)

Helene M. Lawson

21. Women, Resistance, and Care: An Ethnographic Study of Nursing Auxiliary Work

397

(25)

Geraldine Lee- Treweek

Part V. Deviance in Work

415

(48)

22. Illicit Prescription Drug Use among Pharmacists: Evidence of a Paradox of Familiarity

422

(30)

Dean A. Dabney and Richard C. Hollinger

23. Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community

452

(11)

Patricia A. Adler

Index

463

(18)

About the Editors

481

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