ABSTRACT

The study contributes to discursive and interactional housing and home studies by analysing home visit conversations with clients who need support with their housing and living in the community. It focuses on the ways in which professionals comment on clients’ home environments. The data, which consist of 20 audio-recorded home visits in Mobile Support directed at mental health and substance abuse rehabilitees, are analysed by applying the Foucauldian concepts of practices, normalization and inspecting gaze, Goffman’s idea on face-work and the ethnomethodologically oriented research on the meanings of spaces in interactions. Five ways of using inspecting gaze are identified: pointing out, criticizing, giving advice, displaying concern and complimenting. The study provides a critical reflective basis for assessing the “soft” use of interactional power in clients’ homes at a time when the provision of services in private home spaces is on the increase.

摘要

该研究通过分析与需要住房和社区生活支持的客户的家访对话，有助于话语和互动的住房和家庭研究。它侧重于专业人士对客户家庭环境的评论方式。数据包括移动支持中针对心理健康和药物滥用康复者的 20 次录音家访，通过应用福柯的实践概念、标准化和检查凝视、戈夫曼的面子工作理念和民族方法学导向研究进行分析关于互动中空间的意义。确定了使用检查凝视的五种方法：指出、批评、提供建议、表示关注和赞美。