Ethnography male career in a spinal injuries unit: analysis of the roles and social networks with a gender perspective

Abstract

Historically, the familiar care of the elderly in situation of dependence, has been marked by the factor gender of the career, this way, many studies show, the task of taking care relapses, in 85 % of the cases on the women. In spite of this, the number of career males is important and cannot forget. The principal purpose of this study is to analyze from the Urban Anthropology the networks of kinship of two hospitalized patients and the influence of these networks in the social roles of career males members of this network. Has been carried out through the ethnographic method. The main techniques that have been used were participant observation and interviews. We can conclude that in both cases there is a relationship between social roles related to employment and the role of career, this way almost in all members of both networks shows the incompatibility of a work with the role of career.

Keywords

• Género, cuidador informal, redes, roles sociales