Graduation Year
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Sociology
Major Professor
Donileen Loseke, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Margarethe Kusenbach, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Maralee Mayberry, Ph.D.
Keywords
institutions, sympathy, charity, homelessness, poverty, volunteer, dignity, organization, ethnography
Abstract
Homeless outreach programs vary widely in their approaches to client treatment. At the Grace Café, an organization that serves daily meals to people who are homeless, the concept of dignity is central to guest treatment. According to the café's ideology, the importance of providing food is secondary to serving with dignity. This research explores dignity as an ideal of client treatment at the Grace Café. Based on ethnographic research, this paper explores how dignity is communicated to volunteers, implemented in service, and challenged at the Grace Café.
Scholar Commons Citation
Glover, Courtney A., "Doing Dignity at the Grace Café: An Ethnographic Exploration of a Homeless Outreach Program" (2008). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/263
