scholarly journals Beyond conflicts

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Bova ◽  
Francesco Arcidiacono
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Children's Behavior ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
Correct Table ◽  
Upper Middle Class

This paper sets out to investigate the issues leading parents to engage in argumentative discussions with their children during mealtimes. Within a data corpus of 30 video-recorded meals of 10 middle to upper-middle-class Swiss and Italian families with a high socio-cultural level, 107 argumentative discussions between parents and children aged from 3 to 9 years old were selected. The approach for the analysis is based on the pragma-dialectical ideal model of a critical discussion. The results show that family argumentative discussions unfold around issues that are generated both by parental prescriptions and by children’s requests. The parental prescriptions largely concern context-bound activities such as having to eat a certain food or the teaching of correct table manners. The issues triggered by children’s requests refer to a wide range of activities, mainly related to the activity of mealtimes but also related to the children’s behavior outside the family context. These results indicate that argumentative interactions between parents and children are not mere conflictual episodes that must be avoided, but they essentially have a broader educational function.

scholarly journals Eligibility Criteria for the Upper Middle Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meilutė Taljūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Class Model ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Us ◽  
Upper Middle Class

Each country has its own criteria for the upper middle class. On the other hand, it is clear that even the general principles that define the middle class in different countries differ markedly between them. The US and British criteria are often compared. The role of the family as an element of social stratification is important in the British upper middle class model. The article advocates the influence of family stratification on the formation of the upper (and not only) middle class in Lithuania. Not only does the upper middle class have self-employment, its income is above average and it has higher education, it also influences, identifies trends and fundamentally shapes public opinion (an aspect of its ‘social role’). The broad upper middle class is not so much a guarantor of the welfare state but of social stability in the country.

Temporary Accommodation: Joanna Hogg's Cinema of Dispossession

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
John David Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cinematic Space ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Temporary Accommodation

Joanna Hogg's cinema is characterized by its formal precision and its unflinching take on upper-middle class privilege, especially in the context of the family. Her first two feature films—Unrelated (2007) and Archipelago (2010)—scrutinize the dynamics of unhappy families on vacation. Exhibition (2015) takes a long hard look at a couple, both of whom are artists, as they go about their everyday lives in their modernist London home. All of these films avail themselves of rigorous framing and frequent long-take cinematography in order to make cinematic space itself a vehicle of emotional and political analysis. Her most recent feature, The Souvenir (2019), converts elements of Hogg's own biography to tell the story of a young filmmaker who learns the hard way that filmmaking and romantic love are the most difficult enterprises.

scholarly journals “If I Shut My Eyes, I Cannot Hear You”: The Regulation of Parent and Adolescent Communication about Sexual Practices and Identities in the Family Context

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Elley
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Control Situations ◽  
And Control

This paper examines parent-adolescent communication about sexuality in the family context. Of central concern is how parents and their adolescent children interact and communicate about sexual identities and practices. The paper focuses on kinship and familial relations between parents and adolescents, family dynamics and the processes impacting on young people's emergent sexual development and informal sex education in the home. The data is drawn from interviews with 38 young people aged 15-21 years with another 31 participating in focus-groups. The paper argues that mutual and open dialogue about sexuality between parents and adolescents remains highly circumscribed due to how sexuality is relational and regulated in the family context. The data reveals that despite strong family relationships, complex patterns of surveillance and negotiation mean that parents and children monitor and control situations related to expressing sexuality. Instead of ‘passive’ processes operating to manage sexual identities, this paper finds that parents and young people necessarily draw on more sophisticated practices of what can be conceptually termed as the ‘active acknowledgement’ and ‘active avoidance’ of sexuality as a means to manage sexual identities across different family contexts.

The Ecology of Some Middle Class Families at Dinner

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Feiring ◽  
Michael Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Family System ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Middle Class Families

Three-year-old children and their families were observed during a dinner time situation in which all family members were present. Mealtime structure and procedure and verbal interaction patterns during dinner were examined for the sample as a whole and for the effects of family size. The structure of the family system and interaction patterns correspond. It was found that the mother was primarily in charge of the meal situation, preparing and serving the food as well as directing the verbal interaction. Family size was related to the dinner situation in that larger families were more child focused, less orderly and more noisy compared to small families. The results also indicated that the formality of the meal was related to the three-year-old child's verbal interaction with its older sibling. Overall, the results suggest how the mealtime experience, filled with information concerning sex-role behaviour, social manners and habits, and interpersonal relations between parents and children, is a central multifaceted context in which the child's socialisation takes place.

scholarly journals Watching TV with family

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 121-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armanda Matos
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Family Mediation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
Television Plays ◽  
Watching Tv

Nowadays television plays an important role in the socialization of children and adolescents, by making available a wide range of models of behaviour. However, watching television is an activity that takes place, mainly, in a family context. Therefore, the family has an important mediating role. A study conducted in Coimbra with students from the 4th, 6th and 8th grades, suggests that family mediation should be more intentional and more frequent, in order to promote the development of active and critical TV viewers. La televisión desempeña un papel fundamental en la socialización de la infancia, proporcionando desde muy pronto un amplio repertorio de pautas de conductas. La familia es el primer contexto en el que se genera el contacto con el medio televisivo. En este trebajo se recoge un estudio realizado en la ciudad portuguesa de Coimbra, con alumnos de 4, 6 y 8 años, a través de un cuestionario de hábitos televisivo, cin una muestra de 820 alumnos en el que se concluye que la televisión debería ser un instrumento más rentabilizado en la familia con fines educativos. A televisão desempenha um papel fundamental na socialização das crianças, proporcionando desde cedo um amplo leque de modelos de comportamento. A família é o primeiro contexto em que o contacto com este medium ocorre, pelo que deve constituir-se como mediadora da relação que a criança estabelece com a televisão. Um estudo efectuado em Coimbra, com alunos dos 4º, 6º e 8º anos, sugere que o uso da televisão pela família pode e deve ser mais rentabilizado pa a fins educativos.

Behaviour regulation in the family context in Estonia and Sweden

Pragmatics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boel De Geer ◽  
Tiia Tulviste
Keyword(s):  
Family Context ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sentence Form ◽  
Controlling Behaviour ◽  
Families With Children

The aim of the study is to compare the regulatory speech used by parents and children in three different groups: Swedes in Sweden, and Estonians in Estonia and Sweden. 54 families with children of 9-13 were videotaped during mealtime. All regulatory speech aimed at controlling behaviour was identified and coded according to sentence form used for regulation as well as outcome (response). Estonians in Estonia used behaviour directives most frequently, and favoured the direct imperative form of regulatory language over declaratives and questions used by Estonians and Swedes in Sweden. Although the outcomes of regulation were mainly compliance in all groups, Estonian children living in Sweden complied significantly less than Swedish children. The results also show that Estonian children in Sweden have been influenced by the Swedish preference for regulating by declaratives and questions, using more questions and fewer imperatives than their mothers.

Family Men

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Jessi Streib
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Family ◽  
Upper Middle Class

There are two types of family men: those raised in conservative communities and with resource strengths, and those raised with resource weaknesses who use the identity to make a virtue of necessity. The former distances themselves from school, college, and work but maintain enough resources to remain insecurely tied to the upper-middle class. The latter distances themselves from school, college, and work too. However, having started with fewer resources, they are unable to stay in the upper-middle class. Still, most are pleased with how their lives unfold: they are on route to marrying, becoming fathers, and providing—becoming the family men they’ve long wanted to be.

Parental strategies in argumentative dialogues with their children at mealtimes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Bova
Keyword(s):  
Family Context ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Dialogic Process ◽  
Parental Strategies ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract This study focuses on parent-child argumentation to identify the argumentative strategies most frequently used by parents to resolve in their favor the process of negotiation occurring during argumentative dialogues with their children at mealtime. Findings of the analysis of 132 argumentative dialogues indicate that parents mostly use arguments based on the notions of quality and quantity in food-related discussions. The parents use other types of arguments such as the appeal to consistency, the arguments from authority, and the arguments from analogy, in discussions related to the teaching of correct behaviors in social situations within and outside the family context. The results of this study show how parents and children contribute to co-constructing the dialogic process of negotiating their divergent opinions.

scholarly journals Social class and the emergent organised sporting habits of primary-aged children

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Wheeler ◽  
Ken Green ◽  
Miranda Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Upper Middle Class

This paper reports on the patterns of participation in organised sports of youngsters coming towards the end of primary school, with a view to identifying emergent sporting habits in relation to social class gradients. The data for the study were generated via 90 semi-structured interviews with parents and children from 62 families. The data revealed differences in organised activity participation (both at and beyond school) between an ‘under-class’ and combined middle-class groups of children, as well as within-class gradients among the middle-class sub-groups. There were, for example, substantial differences between the under-class group and the combined middle-class group in terms of both the average number of bouts of organised sports participation and the repertoire or variety of sports engaged with. In effect, the mid- and upper-middle-class children were already sporting and cultural omnivores by the final years of primary schooling. We conclude that while the primary school organised sporting ‘offer’ may be neither a sufficient nor even a necessary contribution to the emerging sporting habits of mid- and upper-middle-class children, for under-class children it is likely to be necessary even though it may still prove, in the longer run, insufficient.

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