ABSTRACT

This article critically reads a social encounter in which a social worker and a middle-aged man with learning disabilities are implicated. To do so, I draw upon ideas and approaches associated with anthropology and the sociology of everyday life to expose invisible, or invisibilised, dimensions of social interaction which may, otherwise, be obscured, backgrounded, and perhaps even concealed by virtue of their ‘thereness’. Through the prisms afforded by these disciplinary lenses, a seemingly ordinary, and unspectacular, social encounter may be regarded in the context of everyday life alongside learning disability, as registering/generating multiple forms of language, and as being inescapably saturated in multifaceted forms of power. Because these disciplinary tools may help map not only the particular social encounter to which this article is concerned but also social interactions more generally, they constitute useful resources, to be cultivated, or crafted, for ethical social work practice.

摘要

这篇文章批判性地阅读了一个社会遭遇，其中牵连了一名社会工作者和一名有学习障碍的中年男子。为此，我利用与人类学和日常生活社会学相关的思想和方法来揭示社会互动的不可见或不可见的维度，否则这些维度可能会因其“存在”而变得模糊、有背景甚至可能被隐藏'. 通过这些学科镜头提供的棱镜，在日常生活的语境中，看似普通、平淡无奇的社交遭遇可能与学习障碍一起被视为注册/生成多种形式的语言，并且不可避免地充满了多方面的权力形式.