scholarly journals Family Rhythms: Re-visioning family change in Ireland using qualitative archived data from Growing Up in Ireland and Life Histories and Social Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Geraghty ◽  
Jane Gray
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Key Dimensions

The Family Rhythms project examined the Irish experience of family life over an extended period of time, in which we traced evolving relationships and practices against a backdrop of immense social, cultural and economic change, from the early years of the Irish state to the present day. We combined qualitative data from Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), with Life Histories and Social Change (LHSC) to construct a longitudinal, qualitative database with a distinct focus on family relationships. Family Rhythms demonstrated the potential for bringing data from two major qualitative studies into dialogue to develop new insights into the motives, feelings and rationalities behind Irish people’s family practices and experiences in changing social contexts. Combining the data from two unrelated studies presented methodological challenges, namely how to consolidate these data and how to compare the retrospective life story data in LHSC with the prospective data in GUI. To overcome this, we worked ‘forwards’ and ‘backwards’ across the two collections to specify patterns of continuity and change in key dimensions of family relationships. The strengths of this dynamic approach were that we could examine family relationships across an extended timeframe and from different generational standpoints.

scholarly journals Gender, activism and social change: Reframing the contemporary heroine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Díaz de Sabatés
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Sustaining Change ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
The University ◽  
Permanent Presence

Because society is shaped through the stories we tell, women’s testimonies are of foundational relevance when we reflect on social change, since their stories reinvent not only individual but also collective identity. As an examination from a life narrative perspective on how women view, enact, and reformulate their role in society, this paper centers on the testimony of Dr. Diana Maffía, whom –among other noteworthy womenwas instrumental in solidifying the work on gender and feminist perspective in Argentina since the early 1980s. This paper is an approach to Maffía’s story, about her growing up during military dictatorship, her early years as a philosophy student at the University of Buenos Aires, her embrace of feminism, and the weaving of her two passions that resulted in the establishment of a permanent presence of the concept of gender within the very structure of Argentinean society. Maffía’s narrative brings to light the work that unsung heroines do throughout their lives, evidencing that women have always been at the forefront of generating and sustaining change.

scholarly journals Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-137
Author(s):  
Christoph H. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThis chapter illustrates how social change can be assessed in biographical research by methodologically focusing on processes of intergenerational transmission in interviewees’ life stories, not only within the family but also in educational institutions and other contexts. The author illustrates this by reconstructing the political socialization and politicization of a young activist in Morocco’s Unemployed Graduates Movement and Amazigh Movement. Life stories not only allow long periods of social time and the historicity of social processes to be taken into account but also shed light on the conflicts that young people have to tackle before they can claim to be adults as defined in their particular social contexts. From this perspective, social change and the reconfiguration of power relations depend to a great extent on how societies organize and broker the transition to adulthood, and what particular type of young individuals are granted by their position at the intersections of class, gender, and ethnicity. By assessing the interviewees’ reinterpretation of the experiences, narratives, and traditions passed down to them by the older generation and reconstructing how they position themselves in a generation or generational unit, social change and the formation of new social and political subjectivities become empirically accessible as narrated patterns of social interaction.

Case Study: Memory Work with Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Denis
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Story Work ◽  
Oral History Interview ◽  
Hiv Aids

This article focuses on working with children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Arica. In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, relief organizations focused their efforts on the material needs of children, but their psychological and emotional needs are no less important. Recognizing this, the Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa, a research and community development center located at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Pietermaritzburg South Africa, has pioneered a model of psychosocial intervention for children in grief—particularly but not exclusively in the context of HIV/AIDS. This model uses the methodology of oral history in a novel manner, combined with other techniques such as life story work and narrative therapy. During the early years of the project, the model followed for the family visits was the oral history interview. A discussion on caregiver as the narrator and skills required in memory work especially in these cases concludes this article.

scholarly journals Intergenerational Messages as Sign of Wisdom of Active Polish and Czech Older Learners

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Fabiś ◽  
Arkadiusz Wąsiński ◽  
Oldřich Čepelka
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Older Learners ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Ethical Reflections ◽  
Main Message

Abstract The goal of the paper is to identify the message in letters written by Polish and Czech seniors. The letters were subject to qualitative analysis. The method used was the analysis of the inspired texts—letters written by older people to the younger generation, which may become a didactic tool for the younger generations to learn from the biographies of seniors. The result of the analysis is a list of categories reflecting the main aspects dominating in the letters. These categories are: message addressed to a younger generation, important events and people in individual life story, reflection upon the meaning of life and concerns and challenges in the course of life. All the seniors express their affirmation of family, share ethical reflections on their relationships with other people and on passing. Thus, the main message of the letters is a call to cherish family relationships, nurture relations with other people and show respect to others.

scholarly journals Psychosis Without Meaning: Creating Modern Clinical Psychiatry, 1950 to 1980

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel T. Braslow
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychiatry ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Primary Treatment ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
1960S And 1970S

AbstractOver the last fifty years, American psychiatrists have embraced psychotropic drugs as their primary treatment intervention. This has especially been the case in their treatment of patients suffering from psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. This focus has led to an increasing disregard for patients’ subjective lived-experiences, life histories, and social contexts. This transformation of American psychiatry occurred abruptly beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. My essay looks the ways these major transformations played themselves out in everyday clinical practices of state hospital psychiatrists from 1950 to 1980. Using clinical case records from California state hospitals, I chronicle the ways institutional and ideological forces shaped the clinical care of patients with psychotic disorders. I show there was an abrupt rupture in the late 1960s, where psychiatrists’ concerns about the subjective and social were replaced by a clinical vision focused on a narrow set of drug-responsive signs and symptoms. Major political, economic, and ideological shifts occurred in American life and social policy that provided the context for this increasingly pharmacocentric clinical psychiatry, a clinical perspective that has largely blinded psychiatrists to their patients’ social and psychological suffering.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Our Working Lives: The concept of the career imagination

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263178772110046
Author(s):  
Laurie Cohen ◽  
Joanne Duberley
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Short Termism

This essay considers how the traditional concept of career retains its power in an age of contingency, short-termism and gig work. To answer this question, it introduces and explicates the concept of the ‘career imagination’. This concept has three key dimensions: perceptions of enablement and constraint, time and identity. Situated in the nexus of structure and agency, it is through our career imagination that we envisage and evaluate the progress of our working lives. Encapsulating continuity and change, our career imagination helps us to understand the enduring legitimacy of the traditional career as a yardstick by which to measure success, and the emergence of new possibilities.

Leadership Continuity and Change in Hmong Refugee Communities in the United States

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
International Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Authority Structures

Political violence and international migration have the potential to disrupt leadership continuity in Hmong refugee communities in the United States. At the same time, clan and village authority structures from Laos favor leadership continuity despite dramatic social change. Data on 40 Hmong leaders in ten communities are used to determine if the indigenous sources of leadership continue to determine who becomes a leader after resettlement. The majority of leaders were leaders in Southeast Asia and have close kin who were leaders, indicating leadership continuity. Whether these leaders have held few or many leadership positions in the United States, however, is not determined by prior leadership or kinship, but by factors associated with acculturation. Initial leadership status in a host society is linked to authority structures from the homeland, but social change influences subsequent leadership careers.

Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on IT Sector. The Case of Greece

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Greek Economy ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the Information and Technology (IT) sector on the countries’ innovation development has been recognized as crucial in prior and recent research studies. Moreover, firms’ innovativeness affects positively countries’ economies. Nevertheless, the global economic crisis of the last decade constituted a significant barrier to the development of country economies and had a negative effect on firms’ performance. Specifically, the negative consequences of the global crisis became harder for Southern Europe Countries. More specifically the Greek economy was suffered by an extended period of crisis with harder consequences than those of other European countries. The main purpose of this study was to examine the financial performance of Greek IT firms in the early years of crisis. Our findings have been relevant to those of previous studies which observed negative effects of the financial recession on firms profitability.

scholarly journals Stigma and cystic fibrosis

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tainá Maues Peluci Pizzignacco ◽  
Débora Falleiros de Mello ◽  
Regina Aparecida Garcia de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Treatment Adherence ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Autosomal Recessive ◽  
Family Members

Cystic Fibrosis (CF), also known as Mucoviscidosis, is a chronic disease of autosomal recessive origin and so far incurable. This analysis considers some characteristics of patients and family members that indicate it is a stigmatizing disease. The CF stigma’s impact on the lives of children and adolescents can affect treatment adherence, socialization, family relationships and the formation of their life histories, with direct consequences on their quality of life.

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