scholarly journals The Condensed Courtship Clock: How Elite Women Manage Self-development and Marriage Ideals

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311775348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Fallon ◽  
Casey Stockstill
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Third Party ◽  
High Status ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Third Party Policing ◽  
Gendered Expectations ◽  
College Educated ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Initial Focus

As elite, heterosexual women delay marriage, complete higher education, and pursue high-status careers, are they able to de-center the other-oriented roles of wife and mother in their lives? Using in-depth interviews with 33 single, college-educated women, the authors examine how elite women balance expectations for self-development and family formation. Participants constructed a timeline with three phases: the self-development phase, the readiness moment, and the push to partner. Women’s initial focus on self-development ends with a shift toward feeling ready to search for a spouse. Classed norms for family formation and a perceived biological deadline for childbearing leave a narrow window to achieve family goals. The authors call this narrow window the condensed courtship clock. The clock results in self-scrutiny and third-party policing for women who are off schedule. The class advantages that allow elite women to engage in concerted self-development after college come with intense classed and gendered expectations for family formation.

scholarly journals Gendering Illegality: Undocumented Young Adults’ Negotiation of the Family Formation Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 1153-1171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura E. Enriquez
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Immigrant Incorporation ◽  
Immigration Status ◽  
1.5 Generation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gendered Expectations ◽  
Depth Interviews

Although previous scholarship demonstrates that gender profoundly affects the immigrant incorporation process, few studies assess the role of gender in the lives of 1.5-generation undocumented young adults. Drawing on 92 in-depth interviews, I examine how gender and immigration status intersect to affect undocumented young adults’ dating, marriage, and parenting experiences. Although all undocumented young adults face the same structural limitations, I argue that their gendered social position leads men and women to experience and negotiate their illegality differently. Gendered expectations make immigration status relevant in different ways throughout of the family formation process, and affect undocumented young adults’ ability to negotiate the limitations associated with their immigration status. As a result, undocumented young men are less likely than women to fully participate in family formation and move toward social incorporation. These findings suggest that gender plays a significant role in shaping experiences of illegality and that navigating gendered expectations is an important micro-level process within immigrant incorporation.

Third-Party Policing and Insurance: The Case of Market-Based Crime Prevention

Law & Policy ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharyn Roach Anleu ◽  
Anleu Green Mazerolle ◽  
Lois Presser
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Third Party Policing

Teacher-pupil-parent triads: A typology of interpersonal interaction in the context of learning a musical instrument

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Creech
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Cluster Membership ◽  
Empowering Teachers ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
Context Of Learning ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Measuring Control

The main objective of this research was to create a typology of teacher-pupil-parent interpersonal interaction in the context of learning a musical instrument. Three hundred and thirty-seven teacher-pupil-parent triads participated in the research, completing a survey measuring “control” and “responsiveness”. Factor analysis revealed a number of underlying interpersonal dimensions. A cluster analysis was carried out, using control and responsiveness factors as predictors of cluster membership. A model of six distinct interaction types was revealed and validated with in-depth interviews with teacher-pupil-parent triads representing each cluster. Clusters 1, 2 and 3 were each conceptualised as a primary dyad plus a third party, while Cluster 4 was represented as two primary dyads connected by one common member. Cluster 5 was characterized by very little communication between any two of the three individuals, while Cluster 6 was characterized by reciprocity amongst all three participants. This model of interaction types provides a framework within which teachers may interpret their own teacher-parent and teacher-pupil experience, potentially empowering teachers to alter their interaction patterns when migration from one cluster type to another is deemed to be appropriate in terms of enhancing learning or teaching outcomes.

Academic Library Leaders’ Challenges, Difficulties and Skills: An Analysis of Common Experiences

Libri ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murtaza Ashiq ◽  
Shafiq Ur Rehman ◽  
Syeda Hina Batool
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Identity Crises ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of academic library leaders of Pakistan about library leadership. Qualitative research design was used with phenomenology approach as the present study aims to investigate what library leaders commonly perceive to be challenges, fundamental difficulties and needed skills to be successful. Data were collected through in-depth interviews from 15 senior academic library leaders. Major challenges found were identity crises followed by communication issues, financial constraints, CPD and administrative issues. The most challenging aspects of being an academic library leader were identified as trying to create awareness, lack of self-development culture and technological issues. The required leadership skills were communication, vision, social interaction, team building, organisational understanding and knowledge sharing. The findings of the study are helpful for current, young and future chief librarians to understand the challenges they may face and to develop the leadership skills needed to cope with these challenges. The study will also be helpful to academic institutions during their recruitment processes; professional associations for training purposes; and library schools for arranging and offering leadership courses.

Third Party Policing and School Truancy

2014 ◽  
pp. 5211-5221
Author(s):  
Faye Nitschke ◽  
Lorraine Mazerolle ◽  
Sarah Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Third Party Policing ◽  
School Truancy

scholarly journals The Culture of Amateur Real Estate Investing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Garboden
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

The majority of rental properties in the U.S. today is owned by small- to medium-sized investors, many of whom enter the trade with little prior experience. This paper considers the cultural factors that motivate these amateurs to purchase real estate–an investment with high risks and relatively poor returns. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 93 investors in three heterogeneous real estate markets, Baltimore, MD, Dallas, TX, and Cleveland, OH, combined with participant observation of 22 real estate investment association meetings (REIAs), this paper finds that amateurs who decide to become investors often do so during periods when their professional identities are insecure or they perceive their retirement portfolios to be insufficient. Through participation in real estate investment associations and other investor networks, they quickly internalize “investor culture,” embracing ideologies of self-sufficiency and risk. “Investor culture”—perpetuated by REIAs--motivates and legitimizes strategies of action that lead to increasingly leveraged investments. Third-party actors, including real estate gurus, paid mentors, and private “hard money” lenders exploit the intersection of insecurity and the propagation of investor culture to profit off amateurs’ investment decisions.

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