scholarly journals Social Representations of Art in Public Places: A Study of Everyday Explanations of the Statue of ‘A Real Birmingham Family’

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Peter J. Aspinall
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Cross National

This article focuses on the social/cultural representations of the statue of A Real Birmingham Family cast in bronze and unveiled in Britain’s second city in October 2014. It reveals a family comprising two local mixed-race sisters, both single mothers, and their sons, unanimously chosen from 372 families. Three of the four families shortlisted for the statue were ‘mixed-race’ families. The artwork came about through a partnership between the sculptress, Gillian Wearing, and the city’s Ikon Gallery. A number of different lay representations of the artwork have been identified, notably, that it is a ‘normal family with no fathers’ and that it is not a ‘typical family’. These are at variance with a representation based on an interpretation of the artwork and materials associated with its creation: that a nuclear family is one reality amongst many and that what constitutes a family should not be fixed. This representation destabilizes our notion of the family and redefines it as empirical, experiential, and first-hand, families being brought into recognition by those in the wider society who choose to nominate themselves as such. The work of Ian Hacking, Richard Jenkins, and others is drawn upon to contest the concept of ‘normality’. Further, statistical data are presented that show that there is now a plurality of family types with no one type dominating or meriting the title of ‘normal’. Finally, Wearing’s statues of families in Trentino and Copenhagen comprise an evolving body of cross-national public art that provides further context and meaning for this representation.

War Widows and Welfare Queens

2019 ◽  
pp. 584-605
Author(s):  
Brittany Pearl Battle
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Deserving Poor ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Undeserving Poor

This chapter examines the sociocognitive dimensions of cultural categorizations of deservingness. The social issue of poverty has been a persistent source of debate in the American system of policy development, influenced by conceptual distinctions between the “haves” and “have-nots,” “working moms” and “unemployed dads,” and the “deserving poor” and the “undeserving poor.” Although there is a wealth of literature discussing the ideological underpinnings of stratification systems, these discussions often focus on categorical distinctions between the poor and the nonpoor, with much less discussion of distinctions made among the poor. Moreover, while scholars of culture and policy have long referenced the importance of cultural categories of worthiness in policy development, the theoretical significance of these distinctions has been largely understudied. I expand the discourse on the relationship between cultural representations of worth and social welfare policy by exploring how these categories are conceptualized. Drawing on analytical tools from a sociology of perception framework, I create a model that examines deservingness along continuums of morality and eligibility to highlight the taken-for-granted cultural subtleties that shape perceptions of the poor. I focus on social filters created by norms of poverty, welfare, and the family to explore how the deserving are differentiated from the undeserving.

Family Justice, “Asian Values” and the Politics of Ambivalence in Singapore

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 467-483
Author(s):  
Daniel P.S. Goh
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Asian Values ◽  
Related Family ◽  
New Family ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Discursive Field

Abstract In recent years, Singapore made significant reforms towards the establishment of a dedicated family justice system, setting up the Family Justice Courts and enacting new laws to better manage the divorce process and the protection of children. Related policy changes have also been implemented to provide and support families that were previously considered non-traditional and even deviant. Rhetorically, the state, led by the long-ruling People’s Action Party, continues to champion the modern nuclear family with heterosexual marriage at its core as the normal “traditional” form of the family and the bedrock of conservative “Asian values” defining society and politics in Singapore. However, what the judiciary espouse as the new family justice paradigm and the related family justice practices, together with the shifts in social policy towards different family types, are changing the texture of the dominant conservatism rallied by “Asian values” discourse. This article locates and analyses the incipient paradigm shift in the rising pluralism of family forms and the influence of international legal developments in protecting the rights of the child and interventionist family law. By attempting to bridge the Weberian chasm of doing sociology as a vocation and doing politics as a vocation (as an opposition Member of Parliament), I show that the family justice paradigm has opened up the discursive field on the family and produce the politics of ambivalence caught between family justice and Asian family values. I argue for a relational family justice paradigm as a way to move beyond the politics of ambivalence.

scholarly journals FAMILIES, GENERATIONS AND INTERGERACIONALITY IN NET MODERNITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 321-330
Author(s):  
Camila Kuhn Vieira ◽  
Carine Nascimento da Silva ◽  
Ana Luisa Moser Keitel ◽  
Adriana da Silva Silveira ◽  
Solange Beatriz Billig Garces ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The 19Th Century

We are experiencing a period of accelerated socio-cultural, political and economic changes that are reflected in practically all social institutions, including the family. This is a secular social institution, which reflects the evolution of society. There is still resistance to “idealizing” the family as the “sphere of care and love”. However, it is known that the traditional family of the 19th century gave way to the nuclear family and that, at the same time, it gives way to families with different backgrounds. Also noteworthy are the transformations that occur in complex and liquid society, as highlighted by authors such as Morin and Bauman. In this sense, these transformations also occur in the social institutions that compose it, among them the family nuclei and other social spaces where different generations are inserted, especially with the increasing presence of elderly people. Therefore, with so many important social issues involved in these relationships (society-family-aging and intergenerationality), these reflections are considered to be extremely relevant.

Intergenerational Association of Alexithymic Characteristics for College Students and Their Mothers

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isao Fukunishi ◽  
Wayne Paris
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Parental Bonding ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Toronto Alexithymia Scale ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Types

The intergenerational association of alexithymic characteristics of mothers and their children were examined in a sample of 232 pairs of college students and their mothers. Scores on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Parental Bonding Inventory, and the Family Environmental Scale of college students were significantly correlated with their mothers' memories of when they were also 20 years old. College students' scores were significantly correlated with their mothers' scores on each questionnaire. The student-mother pairs were further divided into two family types, nuclear and extended families. Correlations were higher for scores of the nuclear family than for those of the extended family. Such results suggest there may be intergenerational transmission of alexithymia and related factors from mothers to children.

scholarly journals PERBEDAAN SELF-CARE AGENCY BERDASARKAN TEORI DOROTHEA OREM ANTARA TIPE NUCLEAR FAMILY DAN AGING COUPLE FAMILY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Mei Fitria Kurniati
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Care Agency

Nurses as a part of health workers have an important role in changing the patients and families bahavior that able to balance and independence in their self care activities. One of the family functions is to have health care fuctions which is to maintain the family’s condition in order to have high productivity.The purpose of this study is to knowThe differences of self-care agency based on the Dorothea Orem’s Model between Nuclear family and aging couple family types. This research design was usedCross Sectional. The sampling methode usedwas Purposive Sampling. The number of sampling was 30 families which is nuclear family and aging couple family. The independentvariables isself-care agency and the dependent variable are Nuclear family and aging couple family types.Data were collected using questionnaire and analyzed by using Independent t-test with significance level was 0,05. The result showed that the average value of self care agency for nuclear family was 2387,40 while for aging family was 2163. The result of Mann Whitney showed sig. ρ = 0,000 that means ρ

Family Policy in France

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara N. Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
State Action ◽  
Security Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Quality Of Family Life ◽  
French Family

ABSTRACTTo ask about a country's family policy is to ask how state action, government policies, are actually affecting families and the quality of family life – not just poor families, but all families in that country. French family policy is considered under three headings: (1) the political significance of the family in France, (2) the social security services designed to increase the economic viability of the family and to promote family welfare, and (3) the adjustment of French family policy to the changing economic situation and aspirations of ordinary families. Comparisons are drawn with British policies under each heading and the conclusion drawn that compared with Britain France has a more conscious, clearly defined concept of family policy, which finds expression firstly in statutory and voluntary institutions whose primary or even sole purpose is to promote the welfare of the family, and secondly, in a whole range of statutory benefits to which the parents of the nuclear family are entitled as of right.

scholarly journals Masculinities and Aging in Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 826-826
Author(s):  
Aine Ni Leime
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Cross National

Abstract There is a need for research to gain understanding of the social and cultural constructions of ageing masculinities that, as Gullette emphasises, operate together to construct a ‘culture of decline’. This presentation explores how cultural images of older men inform constructions of ageing and lived realities in Ireland. It draws on the Irish findings from a cross-national, inter-disciplinary project conducted in 2019 investigating older men’s perceptions of how they are represented in film and advertising. It applies innovative narrative and thematic analysis to data from four focus group discussions, interviews and reflective diaries, to explore participants’ (Irish men aged 65+) reactions to the portrayal of older men in TV and film. Stereotypes identified included older men as conservative, grumpy, sad, streetwise, trickster, or action hero. Thematic analysis identified themes including men’s identification with their jobs; their diminishing roles in the family; and old age as a matter of perception.

scholarly journals Behaviors related to Quilombola women’s health: a social representations study

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Fabiane Santos da Silva ◽  
Ivaneide Leal Ataíde Rodrigues ◽  
Laura Maria Vidal Nogueira ◽  
Iaci Proença Palmeira ◽  
Márcia de Assunção Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Care Practices

ABSTRACT Objective: To Identify Quilombola women’s social representations about health care and to characterize practices performed by them. Method: a descriptive, qualitative study, applying the Social Representations Theory, conducted with 30 women from a Quilombola community in the Brazilian Amazon. Individual interviews and thematic content analysis were carried out. Results: Health care practices are related to the home, people, families, and environment, indicating a Quilombola women’s extended understanding about health care. In the first instance, natural resources derived from traditional knowledge and use of herbs are applied, in the second instance, the official health system, with the mother-woman being the main caregiver of the family. Final Considerations: the mother enables a health care in the family daily life, and she is the main way of access health professionals have to enter the Quilombola community and provide proper care from the official health system to the group.

scholarly journals Socialization Skills & Family Types: A Report in Three Jamaican Communities Among Young Adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Nazmuz Sakib
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Social Background ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Stable Family ◽  
Socialization Skills ◽  
The Impact

A child's learning and socialization are most influenced by their family since the family is the child's primary social group. Ultimately, the family will be responsible for shaping a child and developing their values, skills, socialization, and security. This research paper sheds light on the problem in the society that socialization among adults become difficult based on their social background. The research was conducted on two types of families nuclear and single-parent and the impact of these families on the social development of children. The families were selected from three local communities in the parish of Clarendon and Manchester (Rocky Point, Chantilly, and Palmers Cross). The people taken in consideration for this research are of age group 18-35 years old. The basic aim of this research was a statistical analysis on how the economic conditions and home environment contributes to the participant’s socialization behaviors. The research shows how socialization and challenges varies among the families, and how a stable family where both parents are present and resources are readily available, plays a vital in a child’s social development.

Alimentazione, famiglia e stili di vita

2009 ◽  
pp. 19-57
Author(s):  
Luigi FrudÀ
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Collective Dimension ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Stile Di Vita

- By a detailed analysis of derived (secondary) data, in his essay FrudÀ demonstrates that both individuals' and collective new modalities of alimentary styles and food consumption assumed as a whole, as well as the individuals' and social indentity's values there with related, have changed because of a structural retuning of social and demographic nature; and that such a reset has produced the most directly discernible outcome that the family has progressively lost its central role as the organizer of the day by day collective behaviours and of the group's identity processes. The social and anthropological thought concerns the circumstance that the daily life turns out to be increasingly an extraordinary and fragmentized frame and, similiarly, that the conventional social representations focussed on the way of being of the families meant as a social and collective expressionof the every day nature have changed. Divergently, simbolic value of the collective dimension, which is not anymore a day after day matter, gets strenghtened as long as it amounts to an odd event: also, it leads to further symbolic and representational significances able to permeate, in a shared shape, lifes' tracks. In this context, it appears as effective as never more the "glocal" concept in connection with food and alimentary cultures.Key-words: food, life-style, glocalization, family, simbolic value, sociology.Parole-chiave: cibo, stile di vita, glocalizzazione, famiglia, valore simbolico, sociologia.

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