Impaired Face-to-Face Interaction Among Cochlear Implant Users: Towards a Micro-Sociological Framework
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Impaired Face-to-Face Interaction Among Cochlear Implant Users : Towards a Micro-Sociological Framework. / Jepsen, Kim Sune Karrasch; Liebst, Lasse Suonperä.
In: Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 1, 2021, p. 75-94.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Impaired Face-to-Face Interaction Among Cochlear Implant Users
T2 - Towards a Micro-Sociological Framework
AU - Jepsen, Kim Sune Karrasch
AU - Liebst, Lasse Suonperä
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The technological advance of cochlear implants (CIs) has provided deaf and hearing-impaired persons with new opportunities to acquire hearing and thus partake in social life on more equal terms. However, recent studies have also documented communicative and emotional difficulties for some CI users, in particular concerning how crowded and noisy situations may lead to high mental energy use and communicative constraints on social participation. Despite this accumulating evidence, few attempts have been made to provide sociological explanations of such aversive outcomes. Here, the authors develop and outline a micro-sociological framework suggesting impaired verbal interactions as a source of emotional energy drain and subsequent dis-integrations and estrangement in the social bond. The authors demonstrate the relevance of this theoretical explanation through a qualitative analysis of eight interviews with adults who had CIs placed as children. The authors discuss the implications of this framework and findings for CI research and users.
AB - The technological advance of cochlear implants (CIs) has provided deaf and hearing-impaired persons with new opportunities to acquire hearing and thus partake in social life on more equal terms. However, recent studies have also documented communicative and emotional difficulties for some CI users, in particular concerning how crowded and noisy situations may lead to high mental energy use and communicative constraints on social participation. Despite this accumulating evidence, few attempts have been made to provide sociological explanations of such aversive outcomes. Here, the authors develop and outline a micro-sociological framework suggesting impaired verbal interactions as a source of emotional energy drain and subsequent dis-integrations and estrangement in the social bond. The authors demonstrate the relevance of this theoretical explanation through a qualitative analysis of eight interviews with adults who had CIs placed as children. The authors discuss the implications of this framework and findings for CI research and users.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - emotions
KW - interaction rituals
KW - Interpersonal relationships
KW - microsociology
U2 - 10.1177/0190272520961383
DO - 10.1177/0190272520961383
M3 - Journal article
VL - 84
SP - 75
EP - 94
JO - Social Psychology Quarterly
JF - Social Psychology Quarterly
SN - 0190-2725
IS - 1
ER -
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