Family as Excuse and Extenuating Circumstance: Social Organization and Use of Family Rhetoric in a Work Incentive Program.

Miller, Gale

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ERIC Number: EJ435508

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Publication Date: 1991

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Family as Excuse and Extenuating Circumstance: Social Organization and Use of Family Rhetoric in a Work Incentive Program.

Miller, Gale

Journal of Marriage and the Family, v53 n3 p609-21 Aug 1991

Uses family discourse perspective to analyze social relations in a Work Incentive Program (WIN). Analysis focuses on ways in which WIN staff members oriented to and assessed family as an excuse and extenuating circumstance, instructed clients on the organizationally preferred relationship between WIN and family, and responded to clients whom they assessed as making excuses. (Author/ABL)

Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Client Relationship, Employment Problems, Evaluation Methods, Family Problems, Family Structure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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