Parental Bereavement over the Life Course: A Theoretical Intersection and Empirical Review

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian De Vries ◽  
Rose Dalla Lana ◽  
Vilma T. Falck
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Parental Bereavement ◽  
Family Development ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Life Course

This article reviews the literature on parental bereavement over the family life course drawing attention to the meaning of the loss. The conceptual framework for this article arises from the intersection of Klass and Marwit's [1] theory of parental bereavement and the theory of family development as proposed by Aldous [2] and others. The review of the literature is organized according to a series of factors, proposed by Rando [3] and others, thought to influence the parental grief experience: the untimeliness of the death; the nature and quality of the lost relationship; the role the deceased played; the characteristics of the death; and, the social support system. The role of a family developmental perspective in the understanding of parental bereavement and the recognition of the issues involved in the losses at different family stages is discussed in relation to each factor and strategies for future research are offered.

Schooling in the Course of Human Lives: The Social Context of Education and the Transition to Adulthood in Industrial Society

1993 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron M. Pallas
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Cross National

This review examines the role of schooling in the life course of individuals, focusing on the timing and sequencing of schooling in the transition to adulthood. First, I examine conceptual issues in the study of schooling and the life course, drawing heavily on the sociological literature. I then consider the timing and sequencing of schooling in the transition to adulthood in the United States, and the consequences of variations in the timing and sequencing of schooling for adult social and economic success. I then discuss the role of social structure, norms, and institutional arrangements in the transition to adulthood, with special attention to cross-national comparisons with the U. S. and historical changes within countries. I conclude with speculations regarding trends in the role of schooling in the life course, and some directions for future research on this topic.

The Social Context and Resources of the Unmarried in Old Age

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat M. Keith
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Role Transitions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Life Course

A model of singleness in later life was developed to show how the social context may influence the personal and social resources of older, unmarried persons. The unmarried (especially the divorced) will be an increasing proportion of the aged population in the future, and they will require more services than will the married. Role transitions of the unmarried over the life course, finances, health, and social relationships of older singles are discussed with implications for practice and future research.

scholarly journals Deaf Mothers: Communication, Activism, and the Family

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Najarian Souza
Keyword(s):  
Language Choice ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
Deaf Women ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
College Educated

This article examines the mothering experiences of college educated Deaf women and connects this to their identities as part of the Deaf community. Using feminist life history interviews with ten Deaf women, the analysis focuses on their work as mothers and the connections with "maternal thinking," difference, and sameness. Findings include an analysis of the various strategies that these mothers used in their mothering, which include teaching the skills of lifetime educators and self-advocates to deaf children, sending their hearing children to Kids of Deaf Adults (KODA) camps and incorporating their activism and volunteering in their mothering. The author argues that an analysis of ability along with gender is useful to further current theorizing about gender and mothering as a kind of work and that an analysis of the role of language allows us to question the idea that mothering is an innate quality of women. Instead, the author argues that, due to the social context of their life situations, "maternal thinking" and language choice are learned practices that these women negotiate in their work as mothers.

Significant factors in the social situation of offender adolescent development

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
A. Velikotskaya
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Control Level ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Adolescent Relationship ◽  
Significant Factors

The article is a review of foreign studies, which analyze the factors in the social situation of adolescent development, influencing the offenses committed by juveniles: the role of family structure and social status (income, parental education), the role of relationships with parents (parental control level, quality of teenager’s relationships with parents), the importance of social relationships with peers. We show some characteristics of the family, which are the factors of adolescents protection from the offense commitment. It is also shown that adolescent relationship with peers play an important role in the processes of his socialization; that the problematic relationships with peers increase the likelihood of teenager’s criminalization, despite having family protective factors. Studying the preconditions of offenses in teens’ social and family sphere can be used to develop programs to support adolescents who have already committed offenses, and prevention programs for adolescents at risk of probability of initiation to the criminal community and committing crimes.

scholarly journals Contextualizing employment outcomes in family business research: current findings and future research avenues

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Amato ◽  
Rodrigo Basco ◽  
Nicola Lattanzi
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
Aggregate Effect ◽  
Level Of Analysis

AbstractThe empirical evidence of family business phenomenon in terms of employment outcomes is contradictory highlighting the micro–macro gap in the existing research. To address this contradiction, our study disentangles the role of context in family firms’ employment outcomes. To do so, we conduct a systematic literature review of 67 articles focusing on three employment-related outcomes—namely, growth, downsizing, and quality of labour—published in peer-reviewed journals from 1980 to 2020. Based on a two-by-two framework to classify this extant research, we unpack what we know about family firms and employment outcomes and where we can go from here. We highlight three main findings. First, current research is context-less since has mainly focused on the firm level in one context (i.e., region or country) and there is a lack of studies comparing family firms’ employment outcomes in different contexts and explicitly measuring the effects of contextual dimensions on family firms’ employment outcomes. This context-less approach could explain the conflicting results and lack of theoretical predictability about the family effect on employment across contexts. Second, the lack of understanding of the context in which family firms dwell highlights the need for future research to focus on context by theorizing about employment outcomes—that is, measuring context and its interactions with family- and job-related variables. Third, there is a need to further explore, analyse, and theorize on the aggregate effect of family firms on employment outcomes at different level of analysis (e.g., local, regional, and national).

scholarly journals Business Entrepreneurship And Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Pedro Álvaro Correia Pereira ◽  
Irene García Medina ◽  
Patricia Margarida Farias Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Endogenous Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Individual Motivation ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation

This study is a review of the literature regarding business entrepreneurship and education. The main aim is to study the social and educational factors affecting the creation of self-employment for young people as a contribution to the development of local entrepreneurship, reducing unemployment and leveraging economic development. Of the various social influencers, it was important to understand the role of the family, especially of the parents, in motivating and sustaining the creation of one's own job and in the actions of entrepreneurship. In the same sense, at the educational level, to perceive the consequences of access to new resources that expand and support knowledge and skills acquisition useful for creating one's own job and reducing risk aversion of business activities. Finally, to understand the role of endogenous factors such as intelligence and individual motivation in the pursuit of entrepreneurship activities and their relationship with social and educational influencers.

Conclusion

Kids at Work ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Emir Estrada
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Generation College

The conclusion tackles an important and controversial question rooted in our normative and privileged notions of childhood life: Should children work to help support the family? In answering this question, the conclusion shows how the social construction of childhood defined as a period of freedom and play has been cemented in the minds of people for almost a century. Even the families interviewed for this book struggled to see their family work arrangement as “normal” and fully acceptable to others. This chapter returns to the initial queries about childhood, family work relations, intergenerational family dynamics, and ethnic entrepreneurship and asks more questions for future research, keeping as a core analysis the role of children as economic contributors in the family beyond the street vending occupation. Kids at Work, in a way, also tells the story of many more first-generation college students of diverse racial backgrounds who did not have “normal” childhoods because they too had to work to help the family.

Social Interaction in Early and Middle Childhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Serena Lecce ◽  
Rory T. Devine
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the cognitive basis of social interaction by assessing the claim that children’s ability to understand the minds of others (or ‘Theory of Mind’ [ToM]) matters for their successful social interactions. To this end, it critically examines available research on the relation between ToM and social interaction during early and middle childhood, both within and outside the family. The chapter introduces ToM in a social context framework that considers the processes through which ToM has an impact on children’s social outcomes, and the circumstances under which an association between ToM and social interaction should be apparent. It sets an agenda for future research by emphasizing (1) the mediating role of intentional social interaction behaviours in explaining the relations between ToM and social outcomes in early and middle childhood; and (2) the moderating role of partner-related variables (including familiarity, the nature and quality of the relationship, and the level of partner ToM ability) and of social context in strengthening or attenuating the relations between ToM and social interaction.

Conversations and Moral Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 481-499
Author(s):  
Allison DiBianca Fasoli
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Moral Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
The Life Course

In this chapter, the author integrates dominant approaches to moral development in order to outline the significance of conversations for moral development and socialization. Across socialization, narrative, constructivist, and language socialization approaches, research on conversations has advanced our understanding of the development of moral conscience, moral selves, moral concepts, and moral language practices, respectively. While the majority of these research endeavors has focused on social interactions, a move to the investigation of conversations promises to advance our understanding not only of the social bases of moral development, but also its social processes. The author concludes by suggesting avenues for future research that examine moral conversations across the life course, between various social partners, and in relation to cultural beliefs. Such research will help to reveal the unique affordances of conversations in the process of moral development.

scholarly journals Third-Generation Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateja Mihinjac ◽  
Gregory Saville
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Infrastructure

This paper advances crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) theory and practice by introducing a holistic and integrated crime prevention theory called Third-Generation CPTED. We use Third-Generation CPTED to expand both the situational focus of traditional CPTED and the social ecology/neighbourhood focus of Second-Generation CPTED, by creating a new theory that integrates human motivation and aspirations within a neighbourhood Liveability Hierarchy. Central to our theory is the planning concept of liveability and, because safety from crime, fear, and victimization is such an integral part of quality of life, we present two underlying themes on which liveability depends: public health and sustainability. We propose some theoretical assumptions and propositions that underpin the theory and suggest areas for future research. Our contention is that a holistic and integrative Third-Generation CPTED elevates liveability from the role of basic infrastructure and habitat to providing residents with opportunities to enhance their own personal aspirations and improve their quality of life.

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