That Fierce Edge

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Harris
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Sibling Conflict ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Social Equality

Using a combination of brief case studies and statistical analysis of probate disputes in eighteenth-century England, this article argues for an expanded interpretation of Georgian family life—an interpretation that understands the tugs and pulls of siblinghood. In the eighteenth century, emerging ideas about social equality based on idealized siblinghood tangled with engrained family hierarchies to produce messy, constantly shifting, sibling politics. Confronting competing social expectations that classified them as equals yet ranked them hierarchically by gender, birth order, and marital status, Georgian sisters and brothers fiercely wrestled over material and emotional investments from their parents and from one another. Sibling conflict was most common when reality sharply diverged from expectations of equality, such as between older sisters and younger brothers or between men and their brothers' widows.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John West
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Third ◽  
Religious Differences

Literary history often positions Dryden as the precursor to the great Tory satirists of the eighteenth century, like Pope and Swift. Yet a surprising number of Whig writers expressed deep admiration for Dryden, despite their political and religious differences. They were particularly drawn to the enthusiastic dimensions of his writing. After a short reading of Dryden’s poem to his younger Whig contemporary William Congreve, this concluding chapter presents three case studies of Whig writers who used Dryden to develop their own ideas of enthusiastic literature. These three writers are Elizabeth Singer Rowe, John Dennis, and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury. These case studies are used to critique the political polarizations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary history and to stress instead how literary friendship crossed political allegiances, and how writers of differing ideological positions competed to control mutually appealing ideas and vocabularies.

Poetics and subjectivities between classicism and Romanticism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn ◽  
Mark Lipovetsky ◽  
Irina Reyfman ◽  
Stephanie Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Development Of Identity ◽  
Further Development

In the context of Sentimentalism in the 1770s, literary culture opened up to representations of human subjectivity. The chapter considers genres of poetry devoted to the themes of pleasure, death, and posterity. It also considers the spaces of poetry and modes of exchange, whether through the album, the salon, and the verse epistle. Two case studies explore the use of different literary forms in the further development of identity, individual and also authorial. The first looks at Radishchev’s experiment in writing a fictional diary as a psychological exercise. The second examines the tradition of imitation of Horace’s Monument poem in Russian poetry in the eighteenth century as well as by later poets, such as Pushkin and Brodsky. The case study shows how these Russian versions express changing ideas about imitation and originality as well as poets’ concern with posterity.

‘Strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’: The sayyid in eighteenth-century maritime Southeast Asia

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
The West ◽  
New Era ◽  
Asian State ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Western Expansion

Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migration to the Malay-Indonesian region, boosted indigenous traditions of charismatic leadership at a time of intense political challenge posed by Western expansion. The extemporary credentials and personal talents which made for sāda exceptionalism and lent continuity to Southeast Asian state-making traditions are discussed with particular reference to Perak, Siak and Pontianak. These case studies, representative of discrete sāda responses to specific circumstances, mark them out as lead actors in guiding the transition from ‘the last stand of autonomies’ to a new era of pragmatic collaboration with the West.

Women Report Being More Likely Than Men to Model Their Relationships after What They have Seen on TV

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Morrison ◽  
Alida S. Westman
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Broken Home ◽  
Model Family ◽  
Formative Years

Students (21 men and 50 women) anonymously answered questions about imitating relationships seen on TV. The women were more likely than men to report trying to model family life after what they saw on TV situational comedies and to expect their significant other to act as those seen on TV. They also more frequently reported experiencing a significant other acting as those on TV. There was no difference by sex in current age, parents' marital status during the students' formative years, or age of separation, divorce, or widowing if any occurred. For neither women nor men did a broken home during the formative years correlate with looking to TV for information on relationships.

scholarly journals The Ecuadorian Amazon: A Data Analysis of Social and Educational Characteristics of the Population

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Valdivieso ◽  
Efstathios Stefos ◽  
Ruth Lalama
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Factorial Analysis ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
Level Of Instruction ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

The present study describes the social and educational characteristics of the Ecuadorian Amazon population. For this purpose, the data obtained from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment of 2014 was used in this research. A descriptive statistical analysis presents the frequency, the percentages and the graphs of the variables related to the area in which people live, gender, age, ethnic self-identification, language spoken, marital status and level of instruction. Other variables are the use of computer and internet, place of birth, reason why they live in the Amazon region, type of activity or inactivity, how do they feel in their jobs, and groups of occupation. Also, a factorial analysis was used to show the main and most important criteria of differentiation and the the clusters of people with similar characteristics.

scholarly journals Beyond ‘Juggling’ and ‘Flexibility’: Classed and Gendered Experiences of Combining Employment and Motherhood

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Interview Research ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk

This paper proposes that there is a need to push beyond the popular discourses of ‘flexibility’ and ‘work-life balance’. Developing a feminist-Bourdieuian approach and drawing on three illustrative case studies from my interview research with 27 mothers in the UK, I show the importance of maintaining a focus on class and gender inequalities. In the first part of the paper the concepts of capitals, dependencies and habitus which shaped, and were shaped by, this interview research are discussed. An analysis of three women's accounts of their experiences across work and family life is then used to illustrate that although these women all used terms such as ‘flexibility’ and ‘juggling’ in describing their work, the experience of that work was crucially influenced by their histories and current positioning. Tracing each of these women's trajectories from school, attention is focused on the influence of differential access to capitals and relations of dependency in the emergence of their dispositions toward work. Overall, the paper points to the significance of examining the classed and gendered dimensions of women's experiences of employment and motherhood.

Rural family life in La Huerta de Valencia during the eighteenth century

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Manuel Pérez García
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Rural Family ◽  
Situation Économique

Cet article étudie la relation entre la composition des ménages, l'héritage coutumier et l'évolution de la situation démographique dans une région rurale aux environs de Valence au 18e siècle. Une analyse longitudinale des ménages révèle que dans une large mesure le ménage devient tôt ou tard complexe à cause, surtout, de la cohabitation de parents ou d'enfants mariés. La situation économique de la famille est l'élément qui détermine si le ménage devient, oui ou non, complexe. Cependant tout au long du 18e siècle la proportion des ménages complexes augmente, suite à une plus forte fertilité et à la durée plus longue des mariages et cela conjointement à l'échec de l'augmentation du nombre de maisons parallèlement à l'accroissement de la population. Les coutumes de l'héritage, soit sous forme de priorites (en préférant un enfant aux dépens d'un autre), ou sous forme de donation entre vifs encourage également la formation de ménages complexes. A la fin du 18e siècle toutefois, les usages de l'héritage ont changé et delà afin d'assurer le maintien intact des fermes familiales, malgré le changement de la situation démographique. Ces modifications impliquent une augmentation de la quote-part de la propriété en faveur de la veuve, ainsi qu'au profit des fils plutôt qu'à celui des filles. Jusqu'à quel point la recherche de stratégies particulières a obligé les families de s'écarter des lois réglant l'héritage de la propriété a également retenu l'attention de l'auteur.

scholarly journals Push, Pull, Shrink, Grow: The co-share workplace interior that reflects changing spatial needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rebecca Wyborn
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Office ◽  
Interior Environments ◽  
Office Environments ◽  
Spatial Needs

<p>This thesis explores how co-working offices emerged as a solution to the shift in the social expectations of the workplace. It studies how the rise in the number of freelancers and entrepreneurs has resulted in the materialisation of co-working offices. It examines how co-working offices offer flexibility in terms of membership plans, but how their interior environments do not yet reflect this. In short it aims to investigate how these workplace interiors can adapt to meet residents needs.  This research embraces the multi-functionality of the co-working office and the demands of residents who occupy these spaces. Three local case studies and international precedents are explored which give insight and offer opportunities on materiality, site context and multi-functional spaces. It explores how to engage residents by challenging how best to design co-working offices. This project considers the requirements of the co-working office and how co-working interiors are occupied throughout the day. The design proposes a kit of parts ‘space making’ solution, which enables co-working offices to meet resident’s needs.   This research contributes to the limited published discussion of understanding interior space in the context of co-working offices. This research explores through interior architecture, how co-working offices can be designed to reflect its resident’s individual ways of working and co-workings varying spatial needs. Although based around co-working spaces, the researcher recognises the implications for findings based around corporate office environments.</p>

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