School-Level Bureaucrats: How High School Counselors Inhabit the Conflicting Logics of Their Work

dc.contributor.authorBlake, Mary Kate
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-18T23:11:55Z
dc.date.available2023-12-18T23:11:55Z
dc.date.issued2023-10
dc.descriptionMary Kate Blake, School-Level Bureaucrats: How High School Counselors Inhabit the Conflicting Logics of Their Work, Sociology of Education (, ) pp. . Copyright © 2023. DOI: 10.1177/00380407231204596. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please follow our Process for Requesting Permission.en_US
dc.description.abstractThrough three years of training, school counselors build a professional identity based on providing social-emotional, academic, and postsecondary guidance to students. But school counselors face conflict in meeting these expectations in a bureaucratic environment that asks them to prioritize efficiency when meeting with students rather than building one-on-one relationships. I draw from interviews with high school counselors and school personnel and a year of observations to study the institutional logics that govern their work and use inhabited institutional theory to study how time scarcity shaped how counselors interpreted these conflicting macro-level logics in their micro-level interactions. The counselors in this study developed patterns of practice that helped them manage this conflict, negotiating but eventually settling with nonideal strategies in the best way they could with the resources made available to them. Efforts to reject the efficiency model were met with pushback from school leaders and unintended consequences for counselors and students alike. The conflict inherent in their work left little room for the mental health or postsecondary counseling they expect and are trained to provide.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBlake, M. K. (2023). School-Level Bureaucrats: How High School Counselors Inhabit the Conflicting Logics of Their Work. Sociology of Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380407231204596en_US
dc.identifier.issn0038-0407
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/18260
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.rightscopyright SAGE Publications 2023en_US
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dc.subjectschool counselingen_US
dc.subjectinstitutional logicsen_US
dc.subjectinhabited institutional theoryen_US
dc.subjecthigh schoolsen_US
dc.subjectethnographyen_US
dc.titleSchool-Level Bureaucrats: How High School Counselors Inhabit the Conflicting Logics of Their Worken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
mus.citation.extentfirstpage1en_US
mus.citation.extentlastpage38en_US
mus.citation.journaltitleSociology of Educationen_US
mus.identifier.doi10.1177/00380407231204596en_US
mus.relation.collegeCollege of Letters & Scienceen_US
mus.relation.departmentSociology and Anthropology.en_US
mus.relation.universityMontana State University - Bozemanen_US

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