Face-to-Face: The Alienating Effects of Class, Status and Power Divisions

Archibald, W. Peter

doi:10.2307/2094729

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“…One general formulation of the professional-client interaction process adopts a conflicting subcultures framework and explains the clients' lack of success in obtaining information by referring to the clinicians' differing interests and greater power [5]. Others have argued that clinicians withhold information 'to maintain patterns of dominance and subordination' [6].…”

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Information control and the exercise of power in the obstetrical encounter

Shapiro

Najman

Chang

et al. 1983

Social Science & Medicine

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Interactions between doctor and patient involve participants with unequal power and possibly different interests. While a number of studies have focused upon the doctor/patient relationship, few have examined the utility of the concept of power and its capacity to help us understand the outcome of these interactions. The information sought by pregnant women from their obstetricians is used to provide a case study of one conceptualization and test of the utility of the concept of power. Pregnant women and their obstetricians are found to have different perceptions of the information that should be exchanged during their interactions. Women generally fail to obtain the information they want. Lower social class patients desire more and obtain less information than their higher status counterparts.

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Information control and the exercise of power in the obstetrical encounter

Shapiro

Najman

Chang

et al. 1983

Social Science & Medicine

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“…The remainder of this paper outlines a number of propositions which suggest some of the ways in which aligning actions are socially distributed according to peoples' relative interpersonal power, especially their ability to use interpersonal threats (Archibald, 1976). Where appropriate, gender and age will be used as exemplar statuses to indicate more specifically how interpersonal power influences the use of aligning actions.…”

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Aligning Actions: Types and Social Distribution*

Hunter

1984

Symbolic Interaction

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Research on aligning actions requires a clearer understanding of what types of aligning actions exist. A typology of aligning actions is described which is based on three criteria: temporal focus (retrospective or prospective), claim made (concerning the actor's responsibility or the act itself), and the desirability of the event involved. The typology is shown to incorporate the aligning actions already discussed in the literature and to suggest new possibilities. Using this typology, a number of propositions are offered suggesting how aligning actions are used by actors with differing levels of interpersonal power, as relfected in their gender and age.

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“…Clearly this is not a situation which is understood by a simple question of satisfaction but is more complex. In addition, it is not clear to what extent the issue of false consciousness might impact the situation, although issues of authority relations, relative deprivation, ruling ideology, and perceived alternatives to the situation influence the level of involvement (Runciman, 1966;Parkins, 1971; Archibald, 1976).…”

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Alienation as a Social Process

Twining

1980

The Sociological Quarterly

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This essay examines the concept of alienation with reference to Marxian and social psychological perspectives. A synthesis of these diverse perspectives is established with particular emphasis on work alienation. Noting that alienation is a consequence of situationally specific relations based on the interaction of historical context, structural conditions, and individual participants, a theoretical model is constructed for a view of alionation as a social process. It is suggested that understanding alienation as a process will allow for a more integrated explanatory theory.

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Face-to-Face: The Alienating Effects of Class, Status and Power Divisions

Cited by 23 publications

References 49 publications

Information control and the exercise of power in the obstetrical encounter

Information control and the exercise of power in the obstetrical encounter

Aligning Actions: Types and Social Distribution*

Alienation as a Social Process

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