Gibson, B.J. orcid.org/0000-0003-1413-4950, Sussex, P.V., Fitzgerald, R.P. et al. (1 more author) (2017) Complete tooth loss as status passage. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39 (3). pp. 412-427. ISSN 1467-9566
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to add to the literature on the sociology of oral health and dentistry by presenting the relevance of status passage to the study of complete tooth loss. The paper reports on an analysis of data taken from participants residing in the Nelson region of New Zealand. In total the data include interviews from 20 participants, all of whom had their remaining natural teeth removed prior to 1960. In total, 12 women and eight men were interviewed. All were from a European background with an age range of 71 to 101. Participants were interviewed, following a narrative approach, on the nature of the social factors that resulted in complete tooth loss by starting with their family history and then focusing on the factors and events leading up to their total tooth loss. Data were analysed through the methods and techniques of grounded theory. This paper provides an outline of the importance of scheduling, prescribing, social factors, ‘compound awareness contexts’ and reversibility to the status passage into complete tooth loss. We conclude by arguing that the theory of status passage may enable a detailed analysis of the time ‘space extensionality’ of trajectories into complete tooth loss.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Sociology of Health and Illness. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | status passage; complete tooth loss; formal grounded theory; dentistry; reification |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Clinical Dentistry (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2016 09:17 |
Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2017 19:39 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12492 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12492 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102187 |