‘Silver Cups Versus Ice Creams’: Parental Involvement With the Construction of Gender in the Field of Their Son’s Soccer

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Claringbould ◽  
Johanna Adriaanse
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Main Field ◽  
Ice Creams ◽  
The Way

This study explores parents’ gendered meanings in their involvement with their son’s soccer participation. We use Bourdieu’s (1985; 1990; 2012) theoretical perspective of fields, positions, habitus and taking positions to examine the way in which parents in two Dutch soccer clubs reconstruct and negotiate gendered meanings through expressions, positioning and power relations within the field of their son’s soccer. The findings suggest that, within this field, a subdivision exists between the ‘main’ field, represented by masculine meanings, and the subordinated ‘serving-the-main’ field, represented by feminine values. The study contributes to a better understanding of the processes involved in the construction of gender in both subfields and highlights the way in which women who enter the ‘main’ field can be theorized as ‘space invaders’.

scholarly journals Passado, presente e questões para o futuro no estudo da argumentação na fala da criança

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Maria Fausta Pereira Castro
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Cohesive Force ◽  
Language Functioning ◽  
Child Speech ◽  
The Way

This work deals with argument construction in child speech, starting by submitting to revision some of the questions handled by the author all along her research on that subject. In order to stress the theoretical moves which have been made, two main questions were brought into discussion. Namely, the presence of arguments from the adult speech in the child utterances and the effect of argumentative utterances of the type x connective y in restraining deviation in dialogue, thus assuring both meaning and unity. However, the cohesive force of arguments is not free from being disrupted by dispersion and unpredictability. The unfolding of this theoretical perspective opens the way to a hypothesis both on language functioning and on the subjectivity who is constituded in it.

scholarly journals Condições sociais de emergência de um subcampo esportivo: o caso do parkour (Social conditions of emergency of a sportive subfield: the case of parkour) (Condiciones sociales de emergencia de un subcampo deportivo: el caso del parkour)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 509-516
Author(s):  
Alessandra Vieira Fernandes ◽  
Vinicius Machado de Oliveira ◽  
Giuliano Gomes de Assis Pimentel ◽  
Juliano De Souza
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Regulatory Institutions ◽  
Empirical Material

Resumo: Esse artigo analisa a constituição histórica do subcampo esportivo do parkour sob a perspectiva teórica de Pierre Bourdieu. Remete-se à uma abordagem sociológica de caráter descritivo-analítico, cujo material empírico expressa-se na produção online dos praticantes. Em linhas gerais, o processo de desenvolvimento do parkour evidencia a influência da midiatização dos bens culturais e a incorporação de elementos da lógica esportiva que produziram transformações na estruturação da modalidade e no habitus dos agentes. O surgimento de instituições reguladoras, programas de profissionalização e competições introduziram e acentuaram uma distinção entre amadores e profissionais, configurando relações de poder no interior da prática. Abstract: This article analyzes the historical constitution of the sports subfield of parkour under the theoretical perspective of Pierre Bourdieu. It refers to a sociological approach of a descriptive-analytical character, whose empirical material is expressed in the online production of practitioners. In general, the development process of parkour evidences the influence of the mediatization of cultural goods and the incorporation of elements of the sports logic that have produced transformations in the structure of the modality and in the habitus of the agents. The emergence of regulatory institutions, professionalization programs and competitions have introduced and accentuated a distinction between amateurs and professionals, configuring power relations within the practice.Resumen: Este artículo analiza el desarrollo histórico del subcampo deportivo del parkour de acuerdo con la perspectiva teórica de Pierre Bourdieu. Se hace referencia a un enfoque sociológico de carácter descriptivo-analitico, cuyo material empírico se expresa en la producción online de los practicantes. En general, el proceso de desarrollo del parkour muestra la influencia de la cobertura mediática de los bienes culturales y la incorporación de elementos de la lógica de los deportes que produjeron cambios en la estructura de la modalidad y en el habitus de los agentes. La aparición de instituciones reguladoras, programas de formación profesional y competiciones, introdujeron y ampliaron la distinción entre los amateurs y profesionales, estableciendo relaciones de poder dentro de la práctica.

scholarly journals The metaphoric motivation of the caused-motion construction: A case study of perception

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Del Campo Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Internal Constraints ◽  
External Constraints ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

<p>This article addresses the caused-motion construction from the theoretical perspective of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM). Within the LCM, the way in which lexical templates fuse with constructional templates is coerced by internal and external constraints. Internal constraints specify the conditions under which allow predicates to take part in a construction. External constraints take the form of high-level metaphoric and metonymic operations that affect lexical-constructional subsumption. This proposal makes use of the theoretical tools of the LCM with a view to exploring instantiations of the construction with verbs of perception. Apart from internal constraints, high-level metaphor will be found to play a prominent role in the construal of the examples under scrutiny. The study will suffice to point out that the semantics of the caused-motion construction needs to be understood with reference to the underlying metaphoric mappings.</p>

A Negative Theory of Justice

Theoria ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (164) ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Leonard Mazzone
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Philosophical Theory ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Immanent Critique

This article outlines the chief challenges concerning the philosophical theories of emancipation and clarifies the solutions provided by a so-called negative theory of justice. Besides highlighting the classic questions that every philosophical theory of emancipation is expected to answer, the article aims to highlight the link between this theoretical framework and an immanent critique of conditions of domination. Moreover, it sheds light on the main differences between this theoretical perspective and Honneth’s theory of recognition, Fraser’s three-dimensional conception of justice, and the critique of power relations recently advanced by Rainer Forst. The comparative analysis of these theoretical approaches will make it possible to highlight and appreciate the main merits of a so-called negative theory of justice that combines a multidimensional diagnosis of existing asymmetries of power with an immanent critique of their justifications.

The economic roots of helicopter parenting

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Doepke ◽  
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
Helicopter Parenting ◽  
The Way

In this sexcerpt from their book, Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids, Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti discuss the phenomenon of helicopter parenting, in which parents spend more time monitoring their kids’ activities. They present empirical evidence for a rise in parental involvement and suggest that greater income inequality and the related higher stakes surrounding children’s educational success may be driving parents to be more attentive.

Victimization and Asymmetric Gendered Power Relations: A Linguistic Investigation of Harassment Complaints Registered in Lahore

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Umara Shaheen ◽  
María Isabel Maldonado García
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Gender Oppression ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Status Of Women

This paper presents an investigation of the linguistic choices employed in harassment complaints submitted to the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women and four police stations located in Lahore during 2017-2018. In a patriarchal society such as Pakistan’s, where a woman’s honour epitomizes the whole family’s honour (Atakav 2015, 52; Sharlach 2008, 96), sexual harassment, a stigmatizing issue is hardly ever reported (Ali and Kramar 2015, 241). This paper, using Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis’s (Lazar, 2005, 2007) theoretical perspective of asymmetrical gendered power relations mirrored in harassment complaints, explores the form and severity of harassing practices which had prompted women in Lahore to report them. In order to unwrap the complex interplay of gender and power, linguistic features of the complaints are examined through Fairclough’s text analysis (1989, 1992), the first dimension of the 3D model which explores lexical choices such as adjectives, adverbs, culturally informed metaphors and metaphorical extensions, which are embedded in grammatical structure exemplified through transitivity analysis. In this paper, harassment complaints are analysed as important documents invested with socio-cultural gender ideologies that underline the need for dismantling gender oppression to achieve social transformation.

Three Perspectives on Swedish Indefinite Determiners

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joakim Nivre
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Formal Semantic ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Indefinite Article ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Swedish Data ◽  
The Way

This article investigates the meaning and use of singular indefinite determiners in Swedish, in particular the way in which the existential determiner någon/något contrasts with the indefinite article en/ett in different contexts. The problem is approached from three different perspectives, the first being a contrastive Scandinavian perspective, where the Swedish data are reviewed in the light of contrastive data from the closely related languages Danish and Norwegian. Secondly, corpus data are used to substantiate the results of the contrastive analysis both quantitatively and qualitatively. The last section adopts a more theoretical perspective and tries to present a formal semantic analysis of the two determiners under study, drawing on typological work on indefinites and studies of the historical development of indefinite determiners.

scholarly journals Parent Abuse: Opening Up a Discussion of a Complex Instance of Family Power Relations

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Tew ◽  
Judy Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Parent Abuse ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Way

In the UK, the issue of parent abuse remains an unacknowledged and under-researched form of family violence receiving little recognition within social policy and professional practice. This may in part be due to the way it transgresses conventional notions of family power relations in which children are seen as potential victims but not as perpetrators. In this paper, we develop a framework for analysing the complexity of family power relations and explore how these may inform the context in which parent abuse and victimisation occurs. This may help to inform constructive policy and practice responses to this issue.

scholarly journals Who Allowed You To Observe? A Reflexive Overt Organizational Ethnography

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Marie Buscatto
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
Organizational Ethnography ◽  
The Way

Observing people working within organizational contexts through time creates epistemological issues, more so when doing it overtly, with top management’s official agreement. Power relations as well as hierarchical structures strongly influence the way people view the observer and interact with her in organizations. Those interactions also partly depend on his personal background – sex, age, professional position and so on. Following a reflexive approach, my objective is here to better grasp how top management’s agreement to the ethnographer’s entry on the field may influence both the way workers from differing hierarchical levels behave with her (and thus affect her observing conditions) and how he may analyse his ethnographic notes to develop scientific sociological results.

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