Description

• Title:
  The Social Transformation of Self-Injury
• Creator:
  Adler, Patricia A.;
  Adler, Peter
• Contributor:
  Adler, Patricia A. - University of Colorado Boulder, USA;
  Adler, Peter - University of Denver, USA;
  Adler, Patricia A. - adler@colorado.edu;
  Adler, Peter - socyprof@hotmail.com
• Description:
  This research offers a description and analysis of the relatively hidden practice of self-injury: cutting, burning, branding, and bone breaking. Drawing on over 150 in-depth interviews and tens of thousands of website postings, e-mail communications, and Internet groups, we challenge the psycho-medical depiction of this phenomenon and discuss ways that the contemporary sociological practice of self-injury has evolved to challenge images of the population, etiology, practice, and social meanings associated with this behavior. We conclude by suggesting that self-injury, for some, is in the process of undergoing a moral passage from the realm of medicalized to voluntarily chosen deviant behavior in which participants’ actions may be understood with a greater understanding of the sociological factors that contribute to the prevalence of these actions.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2022.11.10;
  2022.10.31
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Qualitative Sociology Review;4;
  18
• Subject:
  Deviance;
  Medical;
  Self-Injury;
  Ethnography;
  Cyber-Ethnography
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44102 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.18.4.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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