From Kinship to Consumerism

2020 ◽  
pp. 158-186
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Suburban Communities ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Working Class Women

This chapter examines the intellectual context for the Consumers’ Association, which Young operated from the headquarters of the Institute of Community Studies from 1956 onwards, and the way in which Young, Townsend, and other members of the Institute of Community Studies grappled with the social changes associated with increased affluence such as suburbanization and increasing identification with the middle class. It argues that Young’s concern with consumerism was informed by ethical concerns about quality of life, and challenges conceptual divisions between the Labour ‘revisionist’ tradition concerned with distributive questions and the more humanistic or ethical socialism associated with Young and other left-wing sociologists. Drawing on the Institute of Community Studies’ work on suburban communities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and Young’s sociology lectures at Cambridge delivered between 1961 and 1963, I show that Young’s consumerism derived from his evolving view of the family. While Young had argued that the extended family had represented an important site of mutual aid and solidarity for working-class women in industrial society, he now suggested that suburbanization and affluence had returned the nuclear family to a position of social and economic pre-eminence.

scholarly journals Agriculture À Base D’anacarde Et Formes Traditionnelles De Mobilisation De La Main D’oeuvre Agricole Chez Les Fohobélé Au Centre-Nord De La Côte d'Ivoire

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Ouattara Nanfouhoro Paul-Kévin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Le système de production agricole des Fohobélé est basé sur une main d’oeuvre provenant principalement de la famille dite élargie et du nabonron qui est une institution sociale destinée à mutualiser la force de travail. A la suite de l’adoption de la culture de l’anacarde, l’économie locale s’est structurée autour d’une économie de plantation en remplacement de l’économie fondée sur la culture de rente qu’est le coton. Le présent article vise d’une part à connaitre l’impact de la culture de l’anacarde sur les structures sociales de mobilisation de la main d’oeuvre agricole des Fohobélé et d’autre part à découvrir les nouvelles stratégies de formation de la force de travail agricole. A travers des entretiens semi-directifs avec les acteurs locaux et des observations de terrain, il ressort de l’étude que l’adoption de cette nouvelle spéculation agricole a déstructuré les formes traditionnelles de la force de travail. La famille traditionnelle s’est éclatée pour laisser la place à des familles nucléaires. Le nabonron, forme d’entraide locale a disparu. La force de travail provient désormais de la famille nucléaire avec un rôle plus accru des femmes, des prestations monétarisées et de l’usage des produits chimiques dans l’agriculture. The Fohobélé agricultural production system is based on a workforce mainly coming from the so-called extended family and the nabonron, which is a social institution intended to pool the labor force. Following the adoption of cashew cultivation, the local economy was structured around a plantation economy to replace the economy based on the cash crop of cotton. This article aims on the one hand to know the impact of cashew cultivation on the social structures of mobilization of the agricultural workforce of the Fohobélé and on the other hand to discover the new strategies of strength training agricultural work. Through semi-structured interviews with local actors and field observations, it emerges from the study that the adoption of this new agricultural speculation has deconstructed the traditional forms of the labor force. The traditional family has split up to make way for nuclear families. The nabonron, a form of local mutual aid, has disappeared. The labor force now comes from the nuclear family with a greater role for women, cash benefits and the use of chemicals in agriculture.

The Institute of Community Studies, 1953–1958

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-157
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
The Family ◽  
A Site

Chapter 4 turns to the Institute of Community Studies, the Bethnal Green-based social research organization where Young and his colleague Peter Willmott published probably their best-known work, the 1957 Family and Kinship in East London. This and other Institute of Community Studies publications, such as Peter Townsend’s The Family Life of Old People, suggested that the family and extended family were crucial sources of mutual aid and social support for working-class communities, and that this aspect of working-class life had been overlooked by middle-class policy makers and urban planners who thought in terms of a more isolated and conventionally middle-class ‘nuclear’ family of parents and young children. This chapter shows that while Young and his colleagues did detect strong kinship networks in the communities they studied, their emphasis on the extended family was informed by a variety of contemporary developments in anthropology, psychology, and sociology, and by a political project to challenge the Labour Party’s emphasis on male labour and suggest that the extended family could provide an alternative to the workplace as a site of social solidarity. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the role of women in Young’s dystopian satire The Rise of the Meritocracy, which argues that Young idealized women, and the relationships between them, for being less defined by work and professional status.

scholarly journals MICRO FINANCE THROUGH WOMEN SELF-HELP GROUPS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1319-1322
Author(s):  
Raghu B.T ◽  
◽  
Venkatesha T.K ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Common Disease ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
Self Help Groups

Self-help groups also known as mutual help, mutual aid, or support groups, or groups of people who provide mutual support for each other. In a self-help group, the members share a common problem, often a common disease or addiction. Their mutual goal is to help each other to deal with, if possible to heal or to recover from, this problem. In traditional society, family and friends provided social support. In modern industrial society, however, family and community ties are often disrupted due to mobility and other social changes. Thus, people often choose to join with others who share mutual interests and concerns.

scholarly journals Care and Support for the Aged among the Esan of South-South Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Friday Asiazobor Eboiyehi ◽  
Ifeanyi C. Onwuzuruigbo
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Care And Support

The extended family system is an important ingredient for care and support for the aged in traditional African society. Although this mechanism is gradually being eroded, there is no formal social security apparatus to fill the gap. This study therefore examined the nature of care and support system for the aged and the coping strategies among the Esan of South-South Nigeria through the qualitative method. Esan-Central and Esan-West LGAs were purposely selected for the study and three communities were chosen in each of the LGAs. A total of 32 IDIs and 8 FGDs were conducted among men and women aged 60 years and above. The results are indicative of diminishing extended family ties and increasing social distance between aged parents and adult children. This tendency is associated with age-selective rural-urban migration and emerging nuclear family structure that has impacted negatively on care and support provided for the aged. This change is also linked to social changes towards westernization and coping strategies associated with decline in real income of caregivers as a result of downturn in the Nigerian economy. The aged adopt various coping strategies which include working as night guards, engageing in petty trading, dependence on pension and some support from church members and adult children. The paper concludes that care and support is diminishing among the Esan and suggests re-awakening of the extended family social security system. This may be carried out within the framework of a creative multi-track social policy intervention that will involve government, civil society and private sector partnership.

Socialism and Socialist Intellectuals in French History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Wright
Keyword(s):  
French History ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter sets out the specific historiographical basis for a new study of the French socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that one particular framework—that of the reluctant relationship of socialism with power in the capitalist state—has dominated our approaches to writing the history of French socialism, and suggests that a new focus on temporalities, particularly exploring the clash between revolutionary, future-focused socialism, and present-minded socialism, opens up a new range of cultural, intellectual, and biographical sources for understanding the French socialist movement. It provides the specific intellectual context for understanding how historians in France today are seeking to rethink their intellectual inheritance from left-wing writers of earlier generations.

The Origins of the Village Revisited: From Nuclear to Extended Households

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent V. Flannery
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Near East ◽  
Shared Storage ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Extended Households ◽  
The Village

In Mesoamerica and the Near East, the emergence of the village seems to have involved two stages. In the first stage, individuals were distributed through a series of small circular-to-oval structures, accompanied by communal or “shared” storage features. In the second stage, nuclear families occupied substantial rectangular houses with private storage rooms. Over the last 30 years a wealth of data from the Near East, Egypt, the Trans-Caucasus, India, Africa, and the Southwest U.S. have enriched our understanding of this phenomenon. And in Mesoamerica and the Near East, evidence suggests that nuclear family households eventually gave way to a third stage, one featuring extended family households whose greater labor force made possible extensive multifaceted economies.

Changing family model, social capital and caring: how to reconcile? the case of Lithuania

2013 ◽  
pp. 75-105
Author(s):  
Vida Cesnuityte
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Mother’S Day ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Family Models

The aim of the research presented in the paper is to explore the inter-relations between care processes and personal social networks as social capital in the light of the changing family models. Research of interdependence of care, social capital and family models is based on the idea of family practices suggested by Morgan. The main research question is what family practices of various family models create such social capital that ensure caring for its' members? The research hypothesis is that participation in various activities together with family members and persons beyond nuclear and extended family create dense social networks of caregivers. The analysis is based on data of representative quantitative survey carried out in Lithuania between 2011 November-2012 May within the ESF supported research project "Trajectories of family models and social networks: intergenerational perspective". Research results only partly support this hypothesis: particular family practices create networks of caregivers, but in order to involve particular persons into network of caregivers, different family practices in various family models are needed. Usually, inhabitants of Lithuania primarily expect to receive care from persons who depend to nuclear family created through marriage and extended family arisen from this relation. But persons from whom it is expected to receive care and care received differ in Lithuania. In reality, caregivers usually are children in families with children and parents in families without children. Family practices that create social networks of caregivers, and are common for all family models include annual feasts like Christmas Eve, Christmas, Easter, All Soul's Day, New Year party, Mother's Day. Various family practices differently impacting creation social networks of caregivers for different family models but usually its include joint dinner daily, Sunday lunch together, vacations with family, communication face-toface, by the telephone or Internet, consultations on important decision-making, All Soul's Day feast, Christmas celebration, Mother's Day, Gatherings of relatives, Birthday, Name-day feast, visiting cultural event together.

scholarly journals Quality of life of cervical cancer patient with support from nuclear family and extended family in Dr. Sardjito general hospital, Yogyakarta Indonesia: a comparative study

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 3554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heru Pradjatmo ◽  
Wenny Artanty Nisman ◽  
Yayuk Fatmawati
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patient ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Cervical Cancer Patient ◽  
Financial Problem ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Eortc Qlq

Background: Nature of the disease, side effect from treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and chemo radiation reduce the patient’s quality of life. Thus, the family support is substantial in cancer patient treatment. Aim of this study was comparing the quality of life of patients with cervical cancer in support of the nuclear family and extended family at Dr. Sardjito hospital Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Methods: The study population were all cervical cancer patients treated with chemotherapy in Dr. Sardjito general hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia from October to November 2016. Samples were collected using purposive sampling to obtain 62 respondents, 30 respondents for nuclear family group and 32 for extended family group. The study instruments were family support questionnaire, EORTC QLQ-C30 Indonesian version, and EORTC QLQ-C24 were translated to Indonesian. The quality of life was assessed during chemotherapy.Results: Quality of life for cervical cancer patient from supportive family had mean >50. The respective mean of general health status for patients from supportive nuclear and extended family were 76.28±21.434 and 67.82±22.017. Nearly all items in symptom, multi-item and single-item scales had mean <50, except item financial problem. Meanwhile, quality of life for cervical cancer patient from unsupportive family had mean >50. The respective mean of general health status for patients from unsupportive nuclear and extended family were 70.83±20.972 and 75.00±8.33. Nearly all items in symptom, multi-item and single-item scales had mean <50, except items fatigue and sore. Several items of quality of life had p<0.05, which were constipation (p=0.049), and financial problem (p=0.045).Conclusions: There was no significant difference between quality of life of cervical cancer patients with support from nuclear and extended families. However, in ‘financial problem’ item, nuclear family had better quality of life while in contrast, extended family had better quality of life in ‘constipation’ item. Family education program needed because several domains of quality of life is still low and requires family involvement in treatment.

scholarly journals PARENTING SELF EFFICACY AYAH PADA NUCLEAR DAN EXTENDED FAMILY

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Sri Hardyanti ◽  
Diah Karmiyati ◽  
Diana Savitri Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Basic Difference ◽  
Whitney Test

Bentuk keluarga di Indonesia cukup beragam, namun secara garis besar bentuk keluarga tersebut dibagi menjadi nuclear family dan extended family. Kedua bentuk keluarga ini memiliki perbedaan mendasar dari anggota keluarga yang ada dalam keluarga tersebut, dimana keduanya mampu menimbulkan dinamika yang berbeda  khususnya dari ketersediaan dukungan sosial dan berdampak terhadap Parenting Self-Efficacy (PSE) ayah. Penelitian ini bertunjuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada perbedaan PSE ayah pada nuclear dan extended family yang diukur dengan menggunakan Fathering Self-Efficacy Scale (FSES), dimana desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Teknik sampling dalam penelitian ini adalah snowball dengan jumlah subjek sebesar 200 orang dan data yang didapatkan dari subjek dianalisis dengan menggunakan uji Mann Whitney. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan nilai Z= -1.273 dan p=0.216 (p>0.05) sehingga dapat diketahui bahwa tidak terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan terhadap PSE ayah pada nuclear dan extended family.  Kata Kunci: Parenting Self-Efficacy,  nuclear family, extended family There are a lot of family form in Indonesia, but the outline of that form devides into nuclear family and extended family. The basic difference of both of them is family member who existing in and causes a different dynamic spesifically the availibilty of social support, so at the end of the day it will affect on father’s Parenting Self-Efficacy (PSE). The aim of this study is identying the differences of PSE level between father in nuclear family and extended family by using a Fathering Self-Efficacy Scale (FSES) with  quantitative as a research design. Snowball is a sampling technique with 200 subjects and the data is analyzed by using Mann Whitney test. The result shows Z score=-1.273 and p=0.216 (p>0.05), therefore there is no significant differences of PSE level between father in nuclear and extended family. Keywords:  PSE, nuclear family, extended family

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