Financial Timescapes: The Temporal Shaping of Young People’s Financial Lives

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 800-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Riach ◽  
Paula McDonald ◽  
Deanna Grant-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Life Course ◽  
The Life Course

This article draws on a large qualitative study ( N = 123) to develop an understanding of young people’s financial lives as constituted through experiences of time and temporality. Extending recent accounts of temporality as experienced and lived through our embedded location in the life course, we develop the concept of financial timescapes as a means of focusing on the ways that individual and personal financial capacities are situated in broader economic and cultural topographies of youth. The findings focus on the acquisition, deployment and consequences of financial lives as temporally situated and experienced by 16–26-year-old Australians. By doing so, we draw attention to how financial timescapes influence the constitution, navigation and cohering of young people’s financial lives. Understanding the significance of financial timescapes to young people’s experiences and socially embedded capacities thus helps to inform a sociological understanding of monetary decision making, financial behaviours and financial trajectories across the life course.

Whose life is it anyway? The life course as an observational medium in the education system

2020 ◽  
pp. 147490412096242
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Corsi
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Education System ◽  
Autonomous Observers ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Life Course

System theory defines the life course ( Lebenslauf) as the medium of education. It is a medium, because the educator sees it as a potential for intervention, impressing pedagogically acceptable forms onto it. Yet the single individuals who are educated are autonomous observers who are exposed to an immense quantity of possible configurations of their lives. This raises a first question: how can education legitimate intentions and motivate pupils to accept the forms with which they collaborate, but which they have not chosen for themselves? A further question is raised by the fact that the life course does not coincide with the ‘career’ that each individual constructs for himself during his lifetime, when he is oriented towards roles in organisational terms (such as jobs) or that are in any case external to the system of education. This paper proposes the hypothesis that the life course and the career are coupled to each other by means of educational selection (certificates and qualifications). While this increases the potential available to the individual, it also increases uncertainty, the burden of decision-making and related risks. One skill that could be developed during education is the ability to manage this potential for combinations.

Emerging Adults' Experiences of Grandparent Death

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Manoogian ◽  
Juliana Vandenbroeke ◽  
Amy Ringering ◽  
Tamina Toray ◽  
Eric Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Life Course Transitions ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Life Course

This qualitative study examined the experience of grandparent death among 74 emerging adults enrolled in college. Guided by the life course perspective, the authors specifically explored (a) participant responses to the death, (b) how family systems were influenced by the loss of the grandparent, and (c) how grandparent death motivated life course transitions for emerging adults. The findings suggest that the death trajectory, level of attachment, the role the grandchild played in the family, as well as the coping style utilized affected participants' grief processes. This study underscores the importance of the grandchild–grandparent tie, how new death experiences create meaning and ritual, and how life course transitions are motivated when an older family member dies. Implications for providing support on college campuses when emerging adults experience grandparent death are highlighted.

scholarly journals Social Factors Influencing Russian Male Alcohol Use over the Life Course: A Qualitative Study Investigating Age Based Social Norms, Masculinity, and Workplace Context

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e0142993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Keenan ◽  
Lyudmila Saburova ◽  
Natalia Bobrova ◽  
Diana Elbourne ◽  
Sarah Ashwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Understanding and managing work-life interaction across the life course: a qualitative study

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Skinner ◽  
Jude Elton ◽  
Jocelyn Auer ◽  
Barbara Pocock
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Work Life ◽  
The Life Course

Gendered and generational dynamics of domestic automations

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110304
Author(s):  
Jolynna Sinanan ◽  
Heather A Horst
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
A Value ◽  
Neutral Process ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Automated Decision Making

Automation in the home is often presented as a value neutral process which makes life easier, more efficient and more productive. As recent research on the introduction of domestic technologies has revealed, these technologies are rarely value neutral and often work to reinforce gender dynamics in the household. This article examines the gendered and generational dimensions of how smart and automated technologies are being integrated into homes. Drawing upon 3 years research conducted between 2015 and 2017 in 11 households in Melbourne, Australia, we examine how households manage the storing and transfer of digital material and digital devices (images, videos and files from smartphones, tablets and laptops). Digital materials move within households and between different family members, and these processes are governed by often unstated rules, including changes in the life course. By examining the relationships between gendered and generational roles and automation in the household, we highlight the importance of smaller scale interpersonal relationships, which influences the negotiation of automation in emotionally laden contexts of families. Automated decision making may both support and challenge gendered norms around technology ownership and management.

Supporting Arthritis and Employment Across the Life Course: A Qualitative Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 1461-1468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Jetha ◽  
Monique A. M. Gignac ◽  
Julie Bowring ◽  
Sean Tucker ◽  
Catherine E. Connelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Life Course ◽  
The Life Course
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