Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine Delcroix
In this interview, the sociologist Catherine DELCROIX depicts an action research project with social workers and its consequences. The social workers were concerned about problems in a housing estate in Nantes Nord (the Northern part of Nantes) with many low-income immigrant families from the Maghre...
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| description | In this interview, the sociologist Catherine DELCROIX depicts an action research project with social workers and its consequences. The social workers were concerned about problems in a housing estate in Nantes Nord (the Northern part of Nantes) with many low-income immigrant families from the Maghreb. They contacted Catherine DELCROIX and asked her to help them understand the destructive behavior of local young people and the—as it appeared to them—indifference of their fathers. She guided the social workers in a self-reflexive action research project in which the workers asked fathers, mothers and their adolescent children for life-history interviews. Interviewing and interpreting the interviews together changed the preconceived ideas of the social workers about the immigrants. But there were unanticipated further consequences as well, which affected the entire community and the families. Through forming an association, the fathers created a forum of articulation and participation in public, and they became "coaches" for their children. They were able to counter the effects of "discredit," a concept that Catherine DELCROIX formulated in this research. One important finding is the relevance of a narrated "family memory" in this context since young people understood better who they were, where they came from, and what they could hope for.
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc3651ebe48049b98d182e6ee0b557372022-12-21T23:27:41ZdeuFQSForum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272008-01-0191350Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine DelcroixCatherine Delcroix0Lena Inowlocki1Université Marc Bloch, StrasbourgFachhochschule Frankfurt/M.In this interview, the sociologist Catherine DELCROIX depicts an action research project with social workers and its consequences. The social workers were concerned about problems in a housing estate in Nantes Nord (the Northern part of Nantes) with many low-income immigrant families from the Maghreb. They contacted Catherine DELCROIX and asked her to help them understand the destructive behavior of local young people and the—as it appeared to them—indifference of their fathers. She guided the social workers in a self-reflexive action research project in which the workers asked fathers, mothers and their adolescent children for life-history interviews. Interviewing and interpreting the interviews together changed the preconceived ideas of the social workers about the immigrants. But there were unanticipated further consequences as well, which affected the entire community and the families. Through forming an association, the fathers created a forum of articulation and participation in public, and they became "coaches" for their children. They were able to counter the effects of "discredit," a concept that Catherine DELCROIX formulated in this research. One important finding is the relevance of a narrated "family memory" in this context since young people understood better who they were, where they came from, and what they could hope for. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0801600http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/351biographical research and social workgenerational transmission in familiesimmigrant associationsfamilies from North |
| spellingShingle | Catherine Delcroix Lena Inowlocki Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine Delcroix Forum: Qualitative Social Research biographical research and social work generational transmission in families immigrant associations families from North |
| title | Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine Delcroix |
| title_full | Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine Delcroix |
| title_fullStr | Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine Delcroix |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine Delcroix |
| title_short | Biographical Research as a Cognitive and Practical Approach for Social Workers: An Interview with Catherine Delcroix |
| title_sort | biographical research as a cognitive and practical approach for social workers an interview with catherine delcroix |
| topic | biographical research and social work generational transmission in families immigrant associations families from North |
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