Thomas, Carol (1993) De-Constructing Concepts of Care. Sociology, 27 (4). pp. 649-669. ISSN 1469-8684
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`Care' has been the focus of much sociological and policy related research in the last decade. However, a review of this research literature reveals that the concept of `care' is not uniformly defined, nor is its epistemological status clear. This paper explores the problematic nature of the concept of care in sociological research. In the first section, concepts of care characteristic of 1980s research are deconstructed and compared. This demonstrates their variable and partial character. The second section contrasts the ways in which feminist writers Hilary Graham (1991) and Clare Ungerson (1990) have recently begun to recon- ceptualise care. It is argued that these authors are working along quite different conceptual paths, and that neither reconceptualisation transcends the problem of the partiality of preceding concepts of care. In section three, a unified concept of care is introduced and the question of the theoretical status of the category `care' is addressed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology |
| Additional Information: | Note: Figure 1 in this issue was incorrectly formatted by the publisher. The corrected Figure was printed in the following issue of the journal as an erratum i.e. Sociology 28 (1) 1994. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | care • concepts • reproduction • work • women • epistemology |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Applied Social Science Faculty of Health and Medicine > Health Research |
| ID Code: | 33099 |
| Deposited By: | Mrs Yaling Zhang |
| Deposited On: | 28 Apr 2010 12:39 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 17:22 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/33099 |
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