Professionals' accounts for work-related deceptions

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  • Using interview and observational data, this article analyzes how private detectives account for using work-related deceptions. I place special emphasis on how practitioners' accounts draw on professional affiliations and organizational resources that are less available to individuals in their private lives. These affiliations and resources include economic and demographic characteristics of employers, practitioners, clients and investigative targets, state licensing, the profession's social repute, and asymmetries in specialized knowledge between practitioners and laypersons. The conclusion addresses how accounts for work-related deceptions benefit professionals through advantaging them over targets, obscuring harmful consequences of work, and helping them and their clients to avoid negative labeling.
TitleProfessionals' accounts for work-related deceptions
CreatorShulman, David
PublisherSymbolic Interaction
Academic DepartmentAnthropology & Sociology
DivisionSocial Sciences
OrganizationLafayette College
Date Issued2000
Date Available2013-06-04T20:06:04Z
TypeArticle
LanguageEnglish
Bibliographic CitationShulman, D. (2000) "Professionals' accounts for work-related deceptions." Symbolic Interaction 23 (3): 259-281.
Standard IdentifierHandle 10385/1249
DOI 10.1525/si.2000.23.3.259
Permalinkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10385/1249
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