The Matter of Kinship

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-99
Author(s):  
Suzanna Ivanič
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Kinship Bonds ◽  
Over Time

Alongside natural matter, the ‘matter of kinship’ was a channel through which to negotiate divine power in the cosmos. Objects were integral to constituting kinship and forming devotional communities before God. Gifts exchanged between kith and kin on the occasion of baptism, marriage, and death reveal the dynamic nexus of objects and kinship within the cosmos, to which love was central. Gifts, bequests, trades, transfers, and exchanges of all kinds acted to create and sustain kinship bonds as an important part of devotion. Such objects were not only important during the moment of their initial production and use, but also as they were embedded in the daily life of the family and became constant reminders of the Christian lifecycle. Over time such items were woven more deeply into the fabric of daily family life by being given, used, or inherited down the generations.

scholarly journals Conditioning Family-life at the Intersection of Migration and Welfare: The Implications for ‘Brexit Families’

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAJELLA KILKEY
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
The Family ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

AbstractEuropean Freedom of Movement (EFM) was central to the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. Under a ‘hard’ Brexit scenario, it is expected that EFM between the UK and the EU will cease, raising uncertainties about the rights of existing EU citizens in the UK and those of any future EU migrants. This article is concerned with the prospects for family rights linked to EFM which, I argue, impinge on a range of families – so-called ‘Brexit families’ (Kofman, 2017) – beyond those who are EU-national families living in the UK. The article draws on policy analysis of developments in the conditionality attached to the family rights of non-EU migrants, EU migrants and UK citizens at the intersection of migration and welfare systems since 2010, to identify the potential trajectory of rights post-Brexit. While the findings highlight stratification in family rights between and within those three groups, the pattern is one in which class and gender divisions are prominent and have become more so over time as a result of the particular types of conditionality introduced. I conclude by arguing that, with the cessation of EFM, those axes will also be central in the re-ordering of the rights of ‘Brexit families’.

scholarly journals Predicting the gender of individuals with tinnitus based on daily life data of the TrackYourTinnitus mHealth platform

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Allgaier ◽  
Winfried Schlee ◽  
Berthold Langguth ◽  
Thomas Probst ◽  
Rüdiger Pryss
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Sound Stimulation ◽  
Life Data ◽  
Symptom Profiles ◽  
Symptom Profile ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Impacts ◽  
Over Time

AbstractTinnitus is an auditory phantom perception in the absence of an external sound stimulation. People with tinnitus often report severe constraints in their daily life. Interestingly, indications exist on gender differences between women and men both in the symptom profile as well as in the response to specific tinnitus treatments. In this paper, data of the TrackYourTinnitus platform (TYT) were analyzed to investigate whether the gender of users can be predicted. In general, the TYT mobile Health crowdsensing platform was developed to demystify the daily and momentary variations of tinnitus symptoms over time. The goal of the presented investigation is a better understanding of gender-related differences in the symptom profiles of users from TYT. Based on two questionnaires of TYT, four machine learning based classifiers were trained and analyzed. With respect to the provided daily answers, the gender of TYT users can be predicted with an accuracy of 81.7%. In this context, worries, difficulties in concentration, and irritability towards the family are the three most important characteristics for predicting the gender. Note that in contrast to existing studies on TYT, daily answers to the worst symptom question were firstly investigated in more detail. It was found that results of this question significantly contribute to the prediction of the gender of TYT users. Overall, our findings indicate gender-related differences in tinnitus and tinnitus-related symptoms. Based on evidence that gender impacts the development of tinnitus, the gathered insights can be considered relevant and justify further investigations in this direction.

Housework over the family life course

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Shannon N. Davis ◽  
Theodore N. Greenstein
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Workload ◽  
Division Of Housework ◽  
Over Time

To examine the effectiveness of our argument that housework can be used to understand power in families, we apply our theoretical framework across the family life course. In this chapter we empirically examine patterns across the five housework classes (Ultra-traditional, Traditional, Transitional Husbands, Egalitarian, and Egalitarian High Workload) regarding shifts in measures of power. We focus on changes in labor market participation, income, and occupational prestige from NSFH Wave 1 to Wave 2. We find that couples where women secured more economic resources at a pace similar to their husbands were more likely to be more egalitarian in their division of housework over time. However, couples where women secured resources while men did not were likely to exhibit gender deviance neutralization and a traditional division of labor at the second interview.

scholarly journals The Romance of Reunion: Montreal War Veterans Return to Family Life, 1944-1949

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-208
Author(s):  
Magda Fahrni
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Rhetorical Force ◽  
Second World

Abstract The narratives of homecoming told during the last years of the Second World War and the first few years of peace drew on the elements of a literary romance: valiant heroes, loyal heroines, and a period of hardship culminating in the hero's triumphant return and the welcoming embrace of the woman he'd left behind. The moment of reunion, however, heralded the beginning of another story: veterans' reintegration into family life in the wake of war and separation. This paper examines the renegotiation of relationships between male war veterans and their spouses, children, and parents. Using Montreal as a case study, it argues that although the family was promoted as an agent of postwar healing, veterans' readjustment to family life was difficult. The fact that war had strained and sometimes shattered relationships was harder to bear given the rhetorical force of the reunion narrative for veterans and their families.

scholarly journals Trajectories of the Marital Satisfaction among Middle and Old Aged Couples Using Parallel Latent Growth Model: Actor and Partner Effects

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-341
Author(s):  
Kyuyoung Cho ◽  
Seolah Lee
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Initial Level ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
Latent Growth Model ◽  
Latent Growth ◽  
The Family ◽  
Partner Effect ◽  
Over Time

This study examined the trajectories of the marital satisfaction among middle and old aged couples for 8 years. This study focused on middle and old aged couples who were relatively uninterested in family research. Using the 1-5 Waves of Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA) 2006-2014, the study included 635 middle and old aged couples whose husbands were 65-74 years old at baseline. First, a latent growth model indicated that a husband’s and wife’s marital satisfaction trajectories decreased over time. Second, a parallel latent growth model indicated that a husband’s marital satisfaction trajectories decreased more quickly, when the initial level of their own marital satisfaction was higher (husband’s actor-effect); in addition, a wife’s marital satisfaction trajectories also decreased more quickly, when the initial level of their own marital satisfaction was higher (wife’s actor-effect). Wife’s marital satisfaction trajectories decreased more slowly, when the initial level of their husband’s marital satisfaction was higher (husband’s partner-effect); however, the husband’s slope was not associated with the initial level of their wife’s. The methodological value of this work shows the application of a parallel latent growth model that includes the actor and partner effect of APIM. The findings extend our understanding of longitudinal marital dynamics between couples and promote a study on the trajectories of marital satisfaction at stages of the family life cycle.

Imagining and Enacting Birth Family Contact Over Time

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-186
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Contact Dynamics ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
The Family ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
Family Contact ◽  
Over Time

This chapter draws from interview data at multiple phases of the family life cycle (preadoption, 3 months postadoption, 5 years postadoption, and 8 years postadoption) to describe the diverse patterns of adoptive–birth family relationships that unfolded, from the perspective of parents who pursued private domestic adoptions. The chapter addresses the intersecting dimensions of structural and communicative openness, with attention to how they change over time. It outlines a typology of contact dynamics over time, such that couples were classified as embodying one of these patterns: (a) low enthusiasm for openness maintained, little contact; (b) increasing enthusiasm for openness, some contact; (c) increasing enthusiasm for openness, little contact; (d) high enthusiasm for openness maintained, some contact; (e) high enthusiasm for openness maintained, no contact; (f) decreasing enthusiasm for openness amid boundary challenges, contact terminated or reduced; and (g) enthusiasm for openness maintained amid boundary challenges, contact maintained.

Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissistic States in Interpersonal Situations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Edershile ◽  
Aidan G.C. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interpersonal Theory ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Empirical Perspective ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Interpersonal Situations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

Clinicians have noted that narcissistic individuals fluctuate over time in their levels of grandiosity and vulnerability. However, these fluctuations remain poorly understood from an empirical perspective. Interpersonal theory asserts that interpersonal situations are central to the expression of personality and psychopathology, and therefore are a key context in which to understand state narcissism’s dynamic processes. The present study is the first to examine state narcissism assessed during interpersonal situations. Specifically, perceptions of others’ warmth and dominance, momentary grandiosity and vulnerability, and one’s own warm and dominant behavior were assessed across situations in daily life in a large sample (person N=286; occasion N=6,837). Results revealed that more grandiose individuals perceived others as colder and behaved in a more dominant and cold fashion, on average. But in the moment, relatively higher grandiosity was associated with perceiving others as warmer and more submissive and resulted in more dominant and warm behavior. On the other hand, trait vulnerability was associated with perceptions of coldness and cold behavior, and these effects were only amplified in momentary spikes of vulnerability. This study provides much needed insight into the contexts that contribute to fluctuations in grandiosity and vulnerability.

Working-Class Household Consumption Smoothing in Interwar Britain

2012 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 797-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER M. SCOTT ◽  
JAMES WALKER
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Consumption Smoothing ◽  
Household Expenditure ◽  
Household Formation ◽  
Household Expenditure Survey ◽  
The Family ◽  
Over Time

We examine the strategies interwar working-class British households used to “smooth” consumption over time and guard against negative contingencies such as illness, unemployment, and death. Newly discovered returns from the U.K. Ministry of Labour's 1937/38 Household Expenditure Survey are used to fully categorize expenditure smoothing via nineteen credit/savings vehicles. We find that households made extensive use of expenditure-smoothing devices. Families' reliance on expenditure-smoothing is shown to be inversely related to household income, while households also used these mechanisms more intensively during expenditure crisis phases of the family life cycle, especially the years immediately after new household formation.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pendidikan Kursus Evangelisasi Pribadi Terhadap Perilaku Mengasihi Dalam Keluarga

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-120
Author(s):  
Benedektus Nugroho Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Christian Family ◽  
The Church

The article discusses the finding of the research on the effects of Personal Evangelization Classes. The author attempts to find out the connection of the personal evangelization classes with the effort to develop a loving behavior within the family as a way of testifying or evangelizing. The methods employed in the project are mixed, both qualitative and quantitative. The research shows that attendants’s understanding from the courses inspires them to spread out the word of God to others. One effort of their evangelization is by giving examples through their own daily life.  They practice good behaviors in their family life and daily practices in form of loving behaviors within their family. The Christian family may grow and be able to participate in the church and society actively.

Emotional Variability Predicts Tiredness in Daily Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aire Mill ◽  
Anu Realo ◽  
Jüri Allik
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Experience Sampling Method ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Intraindividual Variability ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Over Time

Abstract. Intraindividual variability, along with the more frequently studied between-person variability, has been argued to be one of the basic building blocks of emotional experience. The aim of the current study is to examine whether intraindividual variability in affect predicts tiredness in daily life. Intraindividual variability in affect was studied with the experience sampling method in a group of 110 participants (aged between 19 and 84 years) during 14 consecutive days on seven randomly determined occasions per day. The results suggest that affect variability is a stable construct over time and situations. Our findings also demonstrate that intraindividual variability in affect has a unique role in predicting increased levels of tiredness at the momentary level as well at the level of individuals.

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