Budowanie relacji w nadzorach kuratorskich. Praca w terenie
Building relationships in the probation officers’ supervisions. Field work

Author(s): Katarzyna Miśkiewicz
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: family probation officer; field work; social rehabilitation; qualitative analysis; ethnography; participant observation
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study, presented in the monograph was reconstruction of the interaction rituals disclosed by family probation officers in relationships with supervisees at their homes. Whilst working during supervised families’ everyday activities. The theoretical inspirations were determined by the assumptions of symbolic interactionism. The guiding principle were Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy and theory of interaction rituals. My analysis also included the concept of “dirty work”, assuming certain professions face physical, social, moral, and emotional burdens. The focus of my research was the family probation officer’s activities with supervisees in their natural living environment to accomplish professional goals. The primary research strategy was ethnography and grounded methodology procedures was a matrix for analysing and interpreting empirical material. I used in the research open participant observation and ethnographic, informal (conversational) and unstructured interviews. In the results of my own research, I considered the characteristics of the probation officer’s working area and coping mechanisms for the area-specific workload. I also emerged strategies for probatory supervision management which revealed a specific duality of the professional role of a family probation officer. Moreover, I illustrated talking strategies as the dominating component of the professional relationship.

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