 Credibility work and moral evaluation at the EDMarius Wamsiedel Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 248, issue C Abstract: This paper contributes to the understanding of triage decision making by analyzing the credibility work jointly performed by patients and staff and its contribution to the non-clinical evaluation of clientele. I argue that the assessment of credibility occurs at the intersection between staff-devised typifications and patients' interactional performance, and is mediated by staff's experiential knowledge. In ordinary circumstances, patients can achieve credibility through three interactional strategies: embodying distress, limiting the voice of the lifeworld, and conveying narrative frankness. Patients belonging to groups associate by triage workers with disreputable characteristics, such as dishonesty, have the additional task of establishing themselves as trustworthy interlocutors by mobilizing worth claims. Embodying distress and limiting the voice of the lifeworld are instrumental to asserting legitimacy, whereas narrative frankness is an interactional prerequisite for manufacturing reasonableness. Keywords: Moral evaluation; Social categorization; Credibility; Trustworthiness; Ethnography; Decision-making; Triage; Sixth sense (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:248:y:2020:i:c:s0277953620300642 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112845 Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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