scholarly journals John Franklin Enders, 10 February 1897 - 8 September 1985

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 211-233 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Individual

John Franklin Enders came from a family background marked by strong characters and remarkable achievements. His maternal grandfather was a close associate and financial adviser of Mark Twain, and his paternal grandfather walked from town to town selling insurance, later becoming President of the Aetna Insurance Company. His parents were active and of strong character and lived to a ripe old age. His father was President of the principal bank of Hartford and at his death he left a fortune of $19 million. The family is said to have been one with close ties and mutual respect and to have appreciated the needs of the individual. John had one brother, also President of the Hartford National Bank, and two sisters— all charming and accomplished people.

Frederick Charles Bawden, 1908-1972

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 19-63 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The Self ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
The Many

Love for the countryside and people of Devon was an extremely important aspect of Fred Bawden’s life. As he put it (1952a): ‘I come from Devonshire, where we are too modest to claim to grow the best crops of anything; we would be satisfied with the self-evident fact that we produce the best cream and cider, and, of course, the best men.’ Not much information is readily available on his ancestry. A member of the family, it is thought, designed and marketed a novel type of plough, but the family seems not otherwise to have been directly connected with farming. Fred’s paternal grandfather was a boot-maker, his maternal grandfather a stonemason. Fred’s parents, George Bawden and Ellen Balment, lived in North Tawton (Devon) when, on 18 August 1908, he was born; he had an elder brother and sister. George Bawden was Relieving Officer and Registrar of Births and Deaths in North Tawton, but three years later moved to Okehampton to be master of the Poor Law Institution—commonly called the Workhouse. It had a large garden in which George Bawden took a keen interest; he awakened a similar interest in Fred. Potatoes were an important crop in the Institution garden, and their health was an important topic of conversation in the locality. On the principle of ‘imprinting’, this may in part explain Fred’s lifelong attachment to the crop. He records that even as a boy he ‘began to appreciate the many problems involved in growing healthy plants’. Fred’s mother was matron of the Institution and the children were thus made aware of the problems of human old age, sickness and poverty at an age when most of us are shielded from these things; this probably contributed to his lifelong, unsentimental, concern for the welfare of the ‘underdog’, and to his critical approach to political institutions. Marjorie Elizabeth Cudmore was a school-fellow in Okehampton and, like Fred, studied botany at Cambridge. They married on 6 September 1934 and had two sons. The notes deposited with the Royal Society in 1949 were withdrawn a few years ago; on these family matters, the notes remaining are uninformative.

Gender and Social Security: Some Lessons from Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Sickness Benefit ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
The Individual

Different social security schemes affect men and women differently. This article compares the family or single earner model with the individual or dual earner model and examines their impact on gender inequality. However, even where social security schemes are designed to be gender neutral, when applied in a context that is systematically structured by gender, it points out that they will have a different impact on men and women. The article examines the ways in which supposedly gender-neutral rules, in sickness benefit, survivors' pensions and old age pensions have affected men and women in Sweden and concludes that, if countries wish to achieve equal economic outcomes for men and women, they will need to introduce measures to equalise men's and women's commitments to the home and the labour market, and to enable women to attain higher-paid jobs on the same basis as men.

Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Simpsons ◽  
The Family ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Media Narratives

Media narratives in popular culture often ascribe interchangeable characteristics to childhood and old age. In the manner of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By, the authors in this volume envision the presumed semblance between children and the elderly as a root metaphor that finds succinct articulation in the idea that “children are like old people” and vice versa. The volume explores the recurrent use of this root metaphor in literature and media from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The authors demonstrate how it shapes and is reinforced by a spectrum of media products from Western and East-Asian countries. Most the media products addressed were developed for children as their primary audience, and range from children’s classics such as Heidi to recent Dutch children’s books about euthanasia. Various authors also consider narratives produced either for adults (for instance, the TV series Mad Men, and the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) or for a dual audience (for example, the family film Paddington or The Simpsons). The diversity of these products in terms of geography, production date, and audience buttresses a broad comparative exploration of the connection between childhood and old age, allowing the authors to bring out culturally specific aspects and biases. Finally, since this book also unites scholars from a variety of disciplines (media studies, children’s literature studies, film studies, pedagogy, sociology), the individual chapters provide a range of methods for studying the connection between childhood and old age.

Young Musicians' Accounts of Significant Influences in their Early Lives. 1. The Family and the Musical Background

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. A. Howe ◽  
John A. Sloboda
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Music School ◽  
Descriptive Information ◽  
Musical Background ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Musical Excellence

This article reports qualitative findings of an interview study in which 42 students (aged 10–18) from a specialist music school were encouraged to talk about various experiences in their lives which the individual children perceived as having been potentially significant influences on their progress in learning musical instruments. The parents of half the children were also interviewed. Observations concerning the following sources of influence are reported: the family background; sibling influences; listening to music. The insights of children and their parents, which complement and add depth to quantitative findings concerning the biographical precursors of musical excellence, help to provide a rich source of descriptive information about the circumstances in which children become competent young musicians.

TERTIARY EDUCATION, GENDER AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

1994 ◽  
Vol 01 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 473-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
AZLAN GHAZALI ◽  
SOON BENG CHEW ◽  
B C GHOSH ◽  
RICHARD S T TAY
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Employment Decision ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Binary Probit

This study empirically analyses the determinants of Singapore’s university graduates’ employment decision between self-employment and salaried-employment. The binary probit model is used to estimate the effect of three main groups of variables on the employment decision. The thee main groups of variables are the personal characteristics, experience and education, and family background of the graduate. A mailed questionaire survey was carried out on 7300 university graduates in Singapore. A final number of 2486 (34.1%) usable questionaire was obtained. The findings of this study suggest that the personal characteristics and the education and experience of the graduates are significant determinants of the employment decision. However, the family background of the individual was found to be insignificant.

The Context of Childhood Depression

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (S11) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Berney ◽  
S. R. Bhate ◽  
I. Kolvin ◽  
O. O. Famuyiwa ◽  
M. L. Barrett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Childhood Depression ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Adverse Life Events ◽  
Premorbid Personality ◽  
Depressed Group ◽  
The Family ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

This paper examines the family background, premorbid personality traits and adverse life events preceding childhood depression. The non-depressed group proved more likely to have experienced pre-school bereavement and familial disturbance, and to come from the more deprived background; there was also an excess of premorbid anxiety and hysterical personality traits in this group. School phobia and premorbid obsessional traits were associated with the depressed group. Although there was an association between depression and the total number of adverse life events, this was more substantial when the perceived impact of the events was taken into account. Of the individual classes of life event, only illness and a change in social relationships were associated specifically with depression.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY RELATIONS ON THE PERSON'S PERSONALITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (191) ◽  
pp. 256-258
Author(s):  
Maria Kozigora ◽  
◽  
Maria Zamelyuk ◽  
Tatyana Oksenchuk ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Emotional Communication ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual

The article considers the main aspects of the influence of family relations on the development of personality, in particular, the younger student. Raising children is the most important area of our lives. Our children are future citizens of our country and citizens of the world. They will make history. Our children are future parents, they will also be the educators of their children. They must grow up to be wonderful citizens, good fathers and mothers. But that's not all: our children are our old age. Proper upbringing is our happy old age, bad upbringing is our future grief, it is our tears, it is our guilt before other people, before society. There are dozens, hundreds of professions, specialties, jobs: one builds a railway, another builds a house, a third grows bread, a fourth treats people, a fifth sews clothes. But there is the most universal, most complex and noble work, unique for all and at the same time original and unique in each family - it is a work of man. A distinctive feature of this work is that a person finds in it incomparable happiness. Continuing the human race, the father and mother repeat themselves in the child, and the moral responsibility for the person, for his future, depends on how conscious this repetition is. Every moment of that work, which is called education, is a work of the future and a look into the future. Raising children is a return of special forces, spiritual forces. We create a person with love - the love of father to mother and mother to father, love of father and mother to people, deep faith in the dignity and beauty of man. Beautiful children grow up in families where mother and father love each other and at the same time love and respect people. A person acquires value for society only when he becomes a person, and its formation requires purposeful, systematic influence. It is the family with its constant and natural nature of influence is designed to form character traits, beliefs, attitudes, worldview of the child. Therefore, the allocation of the educational function of the family as the main has a social meaning. For each person, the family performs emotional and recreational functions that protect a person from stressful and extreme situations. The comfort and warmth of a home, the realization of a person's need for trusting and emotional communication, compassion, empathy, support - all this allows a person to be more resistant to the conditions of modern restless life. Despite the large number of studies on the problem of raising children and youth, the socio-pedagogical conditions and factors of the educational process in the family, school and other social institutions are not analyzed in depth. Namely, they determine the strategy of education, which is outlined today in certain trends in the education of the individual in the modern conditions of Ukrainian reality.

scholarly journals O doświadczeniu starości w kontekście współczesnych dylematów egzystencjalnych. Film „Elena” Andrieja Zwiagincewa

2017 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 313-323
Author(s):  
Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Impulsive Behavior ◽  
The Family ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

On the experience of old age in the context of contemporary existential dilemmas. Film Elena by Andrei ZvyagintsevThe article constitutes the attempt of looking at the problem of the old age from the point of view of Vladimir, the main male character of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film Elena. His retired existence can be treated as the model example of the golden autumn of life. This vision can be associated with the images promoted by today’s media as the period of so called “third age”, i.e. old age full of new opportunities, with health good enough to take advantage of newly marketed products guaranteeing comfortable and worry-free life. The publication examines the quality of the family relationships, built up by the selected film character, on the basis of the interpretation of space in which he is meant to function. The analysis allows the author to come to the conclusion that the old age and life experience does not protect the characters from impulsive behavior, which is the consequence of spiritual crisis of the contemporary society and disintegration of the harmony between the individual and the community. The old age in Zvyagintsev film turns out to be the time when the opportunity of improving interpersonal relationships is wasted.Проблема старости в контексте современных экзистенциальных дилемм. Фильм Елена Андрея Звягинцева Статья представляет собой попытку взглянуть на проблему старости с точки зрения Владимира, главного мужского героя фильма Андрея Звягинцева Елена. Его пенсионное существование можем рассматривать в качестве примера модели золотой осени жизни. Такой подход связан с изображениями сегодняшних СМИ, представляющих старость как „третий возраст”, то есть период полный новых возможностей, в достаточно хорошем здоровье, чтобы воспользоваться новыми вещами, гарантирующими комфортную беззаботную жизнь. Автор рассматривает качество семейных отношений, созданных Владимиром, анализируя аспекты пространства, в котором он функционирует. Интерпретация позволяет прийти к выводу, что старость и жизненный опыт не защищают героев перед импульсивным по поведением, которое является следствием духовного кризиса современного общества и распада гармонии между индивидом и обществом. Старость в фильме Звягинцевa оказывается периодом, когда возможность повышения межличностных отношений не осуществляется.

scholarly journals Reginald Crundall Punnett, 1875-1967

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
The Town ◽  
Parish Registers

Reginald Crundall Punnett, the eldest of the three children (♂, ♂, ♀) of George Punnett and his wife Emily Crundall, was born at Tonbridge in Kent on 20 June 1875. Both of the parental families were of Kentish stock. The name Punnett is a fairly common one in Kent and Sussex and is frequently to be encountered in the parish registers of the 16th and 17th centuries. There is a hamlet called Punnett’s Town near Heathfield in Sussex. In the 18th century a member of the family, a grower of strawberries, among other things, invented and gave his name to the small chip basket in which he sent his produce from Bromley to the London market. Punnett’s paternal grandfather settled in Tonbridge in 1827 there to found a building firm which is still in existence. This firm built much of Tonbridge School as well as many of the fine houses in the town. His maternal grandfather was the founder of a timber merchant’s firm, William Crundall & Son, in Dover, of which town his eldest son, Sir William Crundall, was mayor for no less than thirteen years. The family probably had its origin in the little village of Crundale, near Wye, and some 10 miles from Charing. It is recorded that the Charing Cross was fashioned by one Richard de Crundall and his son Robert.

Growing up Puritan

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-33
Author(s):  
D. G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Alternative Work

Chapter 1 chronicles the family background of Benjamin Franklin, whose English Protestant father, Josiah, emigrated from Northampton in England to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1683. The chapter describes Franklin’s childhood, including the Boston background of his maternal grandfather, Peter Folger, also an English emigré, and the influence of his uncle, Benjamin Franklin the elder. The chapter indicates the family’s religious affiliations, including their close associations with pastors Samuel Willard and Ebenezer Pemberton. Family friends included the parents of Charles Chauncey, whose adult convictions differed from those of Benjamin. The chapter explains how Josiah originally intended his youngest son to take up a career in the ministry, but came to understand that he lacked some of the requisite convictions. It relates how the search for alternative work in various trades led to an onerous apprenticeship in printing under his brother James. Ben learned about both the trade and himself—by his late teens, he realized that he needed other outlets for his independence of mind.

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