The Ecology of Some Middle Class Families at Dinner

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Feiring ◽  
Michael Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Family System ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Middle Class Families

Three-year-old children and their families were observed during a dinner time situation in which all family members were present. Mealtime structure and procedure and verbal interaction patterns during dinner were examined for the sample as a whole and for the effects of family size. The structure of the family system and interaction patterns correspond. It was found that the mother was primarily in charge of the meal situation, preparing and serving the food as well as directing the verbal interaction. Family size was related to the dinner situation in that larger families were more child focused, less orderly and more noisy compared to small families. The results also indicated that the formality of the meal was related to the three-year-old child's verbal interaction with its older sibling. Overall, the results suggest how the mealtime experience, filled with information concerning sex-role behaviour, social manners and habits, and interpersonal relations between parents and children, is a central multifaceted context in which the child's socialisation takes place.

Sex-Role Specialization in a Transforming Market: Empirical Evidence from Vietnamese Middle-Class Households

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elfriede Penz ◽  
Erich Kirchler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Role Changes ◽  
Consumption Decisions ◽  
Middle Class Families ◽  
Role Specialization

Vietnam is undergoing a rapid transformation to a more prosperous society. This article analyzes household decision making in a transforming economy that has undergone modification of the traditional view of the family, from being an autonomous unit to an object of state policy. This is relevant because policy interventions shape household consumption through gender equality programs and thus have an impact on sex-role specialization. The aim of this study is to advance understanding of Vietnamese household consumption decisions and spouses’ current influence patterns by investigating sex-role specialization in Vietnamese middle-class families’ decision making. Overall, no significant sex-role changes were observed. It seems that traditional Vietnamese sex-role specialization does not (yet) differ among age groups. Instead, traditional sex-role segmentation remains predominant across all investigated age groups. While economic and consumption habits change rapidly, middle-class families appear to preserve their traditional influence patterns in purchase decisions.

scholarly journals FAMILY RESILIENCE IN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE (A CASE STUDY OF PARENT AND CHILD INTERACTION BEHAVIOR IN THE DISTRICT OF SOMBA OPU GOWA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
Abd Rahman R
Keyword(s):  
Foster Children ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Family Resilience ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Interaction Behavior ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Inductive Methods ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

This paper discusses the interaction behavior of parents and children, facing problems in carrying out the duties and roles of the child's parents as the person in charge and the first teacher of understanding and practicing children's religiosity. This paper aims to find and describe the interaction patterns of children's parents, constraints and challenges in carrying out their duties as the first teacher in the family and effective efforts to foster children in the family. This paper is qualitative descriptive, with deductive-inductive methods. Data relying on primary sources through observation and interviews, and is complemented by secondary data obtained from literature. This paper shows the relationship between interaction behavior, the position of father and mother and child with family resilience through internalization of religious norms and values, understanding and practicing the teachings of the faith, praying five times a day, and noble morals. Parent and child interactions are temporal in nature, depending on the conditions of parents and children in the process of interaction in the family. The routine and personality activities of parents who are competent in understanding Islam are relatively constraints and challenges in the interaction between parents and children in carrying out their functions, the role of being the first teacher in the family. This paper is an indicator and motivator that encourage family life to foster children in understanding and practicing the principles of Islam. Keywords: Family resilience, behavior, interaction, parents of children, Islam.تناقش هذه الورقة السلوك التفاعلي بين الوالدين والأطفال، حيث يواجهون مشاكل في أداء واجبات وأدوار والدي الطفل بصفته الشخص المسؤول والمعلم الأول لفهم تدين الأطفال وممارسته. تهدف هذه الورقة إلى إيجاد ووصف أنماط التفاعل بين أولياء أمور الأطفال، والقيود والتحديات في أداء واجباتهم كأول معلم في الأسرة والجهود الفعالة لرعاية الأطفال في الأسرة. هذه الورقة وصفية نوعية، مع الأساليب الاستنتاجية الاستقرائية ، والبيانات التي تعتمد على المصادر الأولية من خلال الملاحظة والمقابلات وتكملها البيانات الثانوية التي تم الحصول عليها من الأدب. توضح هذه الورقة العلاقة بين السلوك التفاعلي، وموقع الأب والأم والطفل في المرونة الأسرية من خلال استيعاب الأعراف والقيم الدينية، وفهم وممارسة تعاليم الدين، والصلاة خمس مرات في اليوم، والأخلاق النبيلة. تفاعلات الوالدين والطفل مؤقتة بطبيعتها ، حسب ظروف الوالدين والأطفال في عملية التفاعل في الأسرة. تعتبر الأنشطة الروتينية والشخصية للآباء المؤهلين في فهم الإسلام قيودًا وتحديات نسبية في التفاعل بين الآباء والأطفال في أداء وظائفهم، ودور كونهم المعلم الأول في الأسرة. تعتبر هذه الورقة مؤشرا ومحفزا يشجع الحياة الأسرية لتنشئة الأبناء على فهم مبادئ الإسلام وممارستها.Tulisan ini membahas tentang perilaku interaksi orang tua dan anak, menghadapi problema dalam menjalankan tugas dan peran orang tua anak sebagai penanggung jawab dan guru pertama terhadap pemahaman dan pengamalan relegiutas anak. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menemukan dan mendeskripsikan  pola interaksi orang tua anak, kendala dan tantangan dalam mengemban tugasnya sebagai guru pertama dalam keluarga serta upaya yang efektif pembinaan anak-anak dalam keluarga. Tulisan ini bersifat deskriftif kualitatif, dengan metode deduktif-induktif, data disandarkan kepada sumber primer melalui observasi, wawancara dan dilengkapi oleh data sekunder yang diperoleh dari leteratur. Tulisan ini menunjukkan kaitan perilaku interaksi, posisi ayah dan ibu serta anak dengan ketahanan keluarga melalui internalisasi norma dan nilai agama, pemahaman dan pengamalan ajaran akidah, salat lima waktu, serta akhlak mulia. Interaksi orang tua dan anak bersifat temporal, tergantung pada kondisi orang tua dan anak dalam proses interaksi dalam keluarga. Kesibukan rutinitas dan kepribadian` orang tua yang bersifat kompetensi pemahaman terhadap Islam relative menjadi faktor kendala dan tantangan dalam interaksi orang tua dan anak dalam menjalankan  fungsi, peran sebagai guru pertama dalam keluarga. Tulisan ini menjadi indikator dan motivator yang mendorong kehidupan keluarga untuk pembinaan anak-anak dalam pemahaman dan pengamalan ajaran-ajaran prinsip dalam Islam.

scholarly journals Social Media Causing Communication Gap: A Study of Middle-Class Families in Latifabad, Hyderabad, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Rashid Ali Khuhro ◽  
Bashir Memon ◽  
Rabia Wahid
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
The Family ◽  
Communication Gap ◽  
Middle Class Families

In family communication, the effective communication stands as the base of strong relations among the family members. However, a little gap in communication weakens family relationships and creates severe problems. Like all types of advanced communication channels; the advent of social media has also facilitated the effectiveness of interface among people. Although, social media's instantaneous communication process ended the communication gap among masses. Thus, many scholars believed that it has also created a communication gap among humans, especially in family communication. In this way, this study aimed to examine the communication gap created by social media among middle-class families of sub-division Latifabad Sindh, Pakistan. The researchers adopted a focus group discussion technique to collect data from three middle-class families. The result of this study shows that most of the focus group participants prefer communication in interpersonal communication settings. Further, it reveals that the majority of the family members use social media by smartphone, tabs and laptops. Significantly, the findings of this study emerged that social media creates a communication gap among middle-class families of Latifabad Hyderabad, Sindh –Pakistan.

Developing Autonomy for Tellers, Tales, and Telling in Family Narrative Events

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoshana Blum-Kulka ◽  
Catherine E. Snow
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
Family Constellation ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
The Family ◽  
American Children ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
Middle Class Families

Abstract Dinner-table conversations are contexts in which children become socialized to local cultural rules regulating storytelling and may be able to achieve autonomy in telling stories, as tellers of stories, and in the content or tale recounted. Conversations from five American and five Israeli middle-class families and five American working-class families matched on family constellation generated 33, 40, and 15 narratives, respectively. Each of the groups demonstrated a different pattern on dimensions such as who participated in telling narratives, who initi-ated narratives, and how secondary narrators participated; Israeli family narra-tives were more collaborative but with relatively little child participation, whereas American middle-class children participated more by initiating their own narratives and American working-class children narrated in response to adult elicitation. All three groups demanded fidelity to truth and coherence in the tales children told, but many more of the narratives told in Israeli families had to do with events known to all the family members, whereas American children told stories about events unfamiliar to at least some family members. (Communication)

Consuming Schooling: Choice, Commodity, Gift and Systems of Exchange

1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 163-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Allatt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Commodity Exchange ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
Middle Class Families

Schooling is a relational good, its consumption founded in social reciprocities. A qualitative study of the purchase and use of schooling by three middle class families challenges the view of identity formation as a project of individual self-realization. Traversing the public domain of the quasi-market of education and the private domain of the family, schooling switches from commodity to gift, entering the associated systems of commodity exchange and moral reciprocities. The tailoring to parental ends of the education offered by schools, and the co-labour of consumption within the household in the form of homework, shaped young people's identity, colonized and reproduced the family.

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