From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
Cláudia Casimiro ◽  
Magda Nico
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter explores the use of technologies as objects and tools in family research. It first considers four main sociological objects that are involved in the interplay between family life and information and communication technologies (ICTs): intimate couple life, intergenerational relationships, transnational or migrant families, and the life course. It then discusses the positive and negative social effects of ICT usage in family life before describing a project based on the life course approach, with a family-centred methodology as the privileged unit of analysis, that utilised CAQDAS (computer assisted qualitative data analysis software) to investigate the processes of social mobility in Portugal over recent decades. The chapter shows that technologies can be envisaged both as an object of study (technology usage and its impact on family relationships in a life course perspective) and as an instrument (technology as a tool).

scholarly journals Poor family relationships in adolescence as a risk factor of in-patient psychiatric care across the life course: A prospective cohort study

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 726-732
Author(s):  
Susanne Alm ◽  
Sara Brolin Låftman ◽  
Fredrik Sivertsson ◽  
Hannes Bohman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Poor Family ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Life Course

Background: Previous research has shown that poor family relations in childhood are associated with adverse mental health in adulthood. Yet, few studies have followed the offspring until late adulthood, and very few have had access to register-based data on hospitalisation due to psychiatric illness. The aim of this study was to examine the association between poor family relations in adolescence and the likelihood of in-patient psychiatric care across the life course up until age 55. Methods: Data were derived from the Stockholm Birth Cohort study, with information on 2638 individuals born in 1953. Information on family relations was based on interviews with the participants’ mothers in 1968. Information on in-patient psychiatric treatment was derived from administrative registers from 1969 to 2008. Binary logistic regression was used. Results: Poor family relations in adolescence were associated with an increased risk of later in-patient treatment for a psychiatric diagnosis, even when adjusting for other adverse conditions in childhood. Further analyses showed that poor family relations in adolescence were a statistically significant predictor of in-patient psychiatric care up until age 36–45, but that the strength of the association attenuated over time. Conclusions: Poor family relationships during upbringing can have serious negative mental-health consequences that persist into mid-adulthood. However, the effect of poor family relations seems to abate with age. The findings point to the importance of effective interventions in families experiencing poor relationships.

scholarly journals How Does the Use of ICTs Affect Family Relationships? A Quantitative Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Alejandro Valencia-Arias ◽  
Carolina Herazo Avendano ◽  
Laura Echeverri Sanchez ◽  
Juan Manuel Peña Plata ◽  
Stephanía Vasquez Giraldo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Probabilistic Sampling ◽  
The Family ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Modern societies are increasingly globalized, where information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a fundamental role in every aspect of daily life: from the social, family, labor, among others. Every day more people who without distinguishing age and gender are seen in the need and desire to have at least one technological device. Objective: To examine the impact of using ICTs in the family relations of the residents of Medellín city. Methodology: exploratory-descriptive research through a quantitative methodological design, a non-probabilistic sampling by criterion was made, where 77 people were selected. Data were collected through a questionnaire type survey with closed questions in a virtual way during 3 Months. Results: among the results, 73.4% of responders suggest that there is no adequate supervision of adults to guide children and adolescents to establish a critical position on these contents. On the other hand, the most valued resources are the mobile device and computer for the possibilities of communication between relatives that are far way and for being means to improve the educational and labor processes. Conclusion: studies around ICTs and their impacts have grown significantly, which it ratifies the importance of the topic. It is imperative that parents stop seeing ICTs as a distant entity, and try to be at the forefront of the uses of the same by children, to generate effective control in the training processes within the family.

scholarly journals Understanding recurrent care proceedings: Competing risks of how mothers and fathers enter subsequent care proceedings in England

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Bedston ◽  
Yang Hu ◽  
Georgia Philip ◽  
Lindsay Youansamouth ◽  
Marian Brandon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Competing Risks ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Lone Parent ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Life Course

BackgroundDespite progress in understanding mothers' (re)appearances within family justice, fathers have not yet received due attention in research on recurrent care proceedings. Aims Compare parents' gendered risks of entering subsequent care proceedings; Map family relations underpinning recurrent care proceedings; Investigate the role of family members' life course characteristics (e.g. age, number of children) in shaping the risk of returning to court. MethodsAnalysis drew on 2007/08-2017/18 administrative records from the Child and Family Court Advisory and Support Services (Cafcass) in England. From a sample of recurrent parents (N = 24,460), a latent class analysis established profiles of who they returned with. A competing risks analysis of all parents (N = 165,550) modelled the risk of returning into each profile given index characteristics. ResultsOverall rate of return for mothers was 1.7 times that of fathers: 22% after 5 years, compared to 13% for fathers, and 29% and 17% after 10 years, respectively. Five distinct profiles of recurrent parents were established: 'recurrent family', 'recurrent couple', 're-partnered couple', 'complex recurrence', and 'lone parent'. The vast majority of fathers who entered subsequent proceedings did so as either a part of a recurrent family (41%) or recurrent couple (36%). However, these two profiles represented a much smaller proportion (25% and 19%, respectively) of all recurrent mothers, while the remainder returned with either a new partner or as a lone parent (49%), both with a new child. Complex recurrence represented a small proportion for both mothers and fathers (7% and 11%, respectively). The risk of each of these profiles is characterised by the distinct life course positions of the parent. ConclusionThe results underscore the value of a relational approach and understanding a parent's position within the life course in social work research towards building a fuller picture of recurrence.

Family Research from the Life Course Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Huinink ◽  
Michael Feldhaus
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Longitudinal Data Collection ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Life Course

This article presents an argument for overcoming some of the limits of current family research. To start, some major research questions concerning the future challenges of demographic change and its implications for modern welfare states are addressed. The authors propose an agenda for making progress in this field via two interrelated steps. First, they propose an integration of theoretical approaches explaining family dynamics and design a conceptual framework to model couples' and family dynamics as a process of purposeful individual action and decision-making over the life course. Second, methodological requirements of family research from this theoretical perspective are identified. Conclusions are drawn with regard to longitudinal data collection covering all dimensions of couples' and family dynamics and not just the structural dimensions.

Networks, Kin, and Social Support

2020 ◽  
pp. 466-479
Author(s):  
G. Robin Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Potential Solution ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Network Approaches ◽  
The Life Course

Family relationships and the emotional and instrumental exchanges embedded within them are among the most important sources of social support available to individuals throughout the life course. This chapter provides an overview of three approaches to family research that conceptualize families as networks. The basic idea throughout the chapter is that family structure is not a sufficient proxy for a person’s access to social support, but network approaches offer a potential solution. First, the chapter discusses approaches that render the language of families as systems into configurations of network structures, with a focus on how to measure the capacity for social support embedded within them. The discussion then turns to research that employs a more inclusive understanding of family, widening the definition of what “counts” as kin. The chapter ends with a discussion of a new approach to measuring family relationships rooted in a network theory of social roles.

Family Relations and Health over the Life Course : A Lebanese Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Kristine J. Ajrouch ◽  
Sawsan Abdulrahim ◽  
Toni Antonucci
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The Life Course

Multidimensional Developmental Pathways: A Proposal to Facilitate the Conceptualisation of ‘Family Diversity’

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Bernardes
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Developmental Pathways ◽  
Developmental Pathway ◽  
Central Type ◽  
Family Diversity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Life Course

This analysis takes Elder's work on the life-course as a starting point. Two proposals are made: (1) That the sociological use of the concept of ‘the family’ should be restricted to indicate only the occurrence of everyday usage; (2) That the notion of the ‘family life-course’ be replaced by the notion of individual life-courses coinciding upon developmental pathways. In this way the idea of a central type of ‘the family’ is made redundant and we are required, instead, to discover when and why participants refer to a particular developmental pathway as being ‘a family’. This approach not only facilitates the conceptualisation ‘family diversity’ but also compels researchers to engage the rich complexity of everyday life.

Sociohistorical and Demographic Perspectives on U.S. Remarriage in 1910

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Elman ◽  
Andrew S. London
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
American Life ◽  
Divorce Rates ◽  
The Life Course

Many scholars have noted the theoretical importance of remarriage in twentieth-century American life (Burch 1995; Cherlin 1998; Furstenberg 1980; Glick 1980; Thornton 1977; Uhlenberg and Chew 1986), yet few historical studies have examined remarriage in the United States empirically. This gap in the literature is noteworthy for two reasons. First, the turn of the twentieth century seems to have marked a crossover in the remarriage transition of the United States, reflecting changes in the pool of persons eligible to remarry. This transition was characterized by decreases in remarriage resulting from declines in mortality and the probability of widow(er)hood, followed by increases in remarriage resulting from higher divorce rates. The crossover in the transition was likely to have occurred when the pool of eligibles was at or near its nadir. Second, there is ongoing debate about the implications of remarriage for families and individuals (Booth and Dunn 1994), and about the impacts of remarriage on family functions (Cherlin 1978; Cherlin and Furstenberg 1994). In the light of these considerations, we believe it is important to examine remarriage and its consequences in the United States at the turn of the century so that we may better understand the ways that remarriage influences family life and shapes the life course of persons within families (see London and Elman 2001).

scholarly journals Las Mujeres Viudas en España

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Juan López Doblas
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
The Life Course

<div><p>In Spain, little knowledge exists on the living arrangements of the widowed women. This paper approaches the above mentioned object of study from a sociological perspective. The theoretical exposition gathers contributions of researches realized in other countries where this question has been treated, considering if they live alone, if they share the home with children and/or with relatives of other generations, or if they have returned to find couple. A descriptive empirical analysis is carried out, using secondary information proceeding from several censuses of population, which reveals the continuous expansion that living alone is registering, and the detriment of the intergenerational conviviality. It is also necessary to emphasize how the living arrangements change depending on the life course and, from the sociodemographic perspective, how the widowhood tends to intensively be concentrated in the old age.</p></div>

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