2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Qualitative research in the intimacy as task and its control form among care workers
| Project/Area Number |
24510372
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Gender
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | ケアワーク / 親密性 / ジェンダー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research examined that the gender-biased features of the (self-) control mechanism in the labor process of paid care workers on the basis of the analysis of stories which they told about their own work experiences. The concept of “labor” is not gender-neutral but deeply male-biased because it consists of agency. On the other hand, human service professions have a fundamental contradiction that their care labor which is actualized as the development of human relations between a care giver and a care recipient objectifies the relationship in its labor process. The research explored that the strategy which paid care workers applied in order to avoid the conflict against the gender-biased emotion rule of care recipients resulted in the transformative effect on the gender norm of the care workers.
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| Free Research Field |
ジェンダー研究
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