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Tove Harnett. Foto: Sanna Dolck Wall

Tove Harnett

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Tove Harnett. Foto: Sanna Dolck Wall

Doing the unknown. Spa activities in a nursing homes

Författare

  • Tove Harnett

Summary, in English

An ethnomethodological point of departure is that people rely on shared knowledge when mutually accomplishing everyday situations. Whereas most residents in a nursing home have a reasonable previous knowledge of events such as bingo or Christmas dinners, other activities such as pub evenings and spa activities are unfamiliar. Using ethnographic data from a Swedish nursing home with a “sport and spa” profile, this article investigates the challenges of arranging spa activities, an activity often unknown among residents. The findings show how residents’ lack of spa knowledge was found to cause problems, especially when they did not interpret the indexical expressions as intended. Where Garfinkel’s indexicality is predicated on actors being able to use shared knowledge, this study demonstrates that a lack of shared knowledge enables some actors to reshape the activity they wish to accomplish.

Avdelning/ar

  • Äldre och åldrande
  • Socialhögskolan

Publiceringsår

2018

Språk

Svenska

Sidor

86-104

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Qualitative Sociology Review

Volym

14

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Lodz University

Ämne

  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • Indexicality
  • Nursing Home
  • Eldercare
  • Spa
  • Leisure Activity
  • Ethnomethodology

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Profiled eldercare and identity

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1733-8077