Maternal Employment in the Family Setting: Developmental and Environmental Issues 1

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-84
Author(s):  
Adele Eskeles Gottfried
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Setting

scholarly journals Taking Account of The Macro in the Micro-Politics of Family Viewing - Generational Strategies

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol MacKeogh
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Setting ◽  
Viewing Experience

This article uses Bourdieu's concept of habitus, to explore how external discourses relating to young people and television, enter into the micro-politics of family viewing. It is based, primarily, on observation data collected by informants in the homes of young people. These data reveal the tactics and strategies that are used both by the young people and by their ‘parents’ to control the viewing process. It is possible to tentatively identify the projection of discourses of vulnerability onto young people who, in turn, attempt to position themselves as competent viewers evoking public discourses around youth and media savvy. Within the family setting these viewers develop a ‘sense for the game’ of viewing which informs the strategies they use to increase their control of the viewing experience.

Remote Control and Influence: Technocultural Capital as a Species of Cultural Capital

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret O'Keeffe
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Setting

Adapting Bourdieu's theory of capitals, the concept of technocultural capital is introduced to study interactions with, and relationships to, technology. The concept is employed in the study of mass media use and consumption in the context of the family. Pronounced gender and generational differences in the levels of technocultural capital were identified. An understanding of these differences and how they emerge is crucial, as technocultural capital is a valuable and powerful concept for understanding interactions, not only within the family setting, but also in other contexts such as education and work, where it can impact on educational and career choices and social mobility.

scholarly journals Honour Crimes: Transdisciplinary Issue

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Josef Smolík
Keyword(s):  
Legal Systems ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Setting

This article introduces so-called honour crimes (sometimes termed honour based violence), which tends to occur within Islamic communities located within ‘host’ countries in Europe. It is a very specific type of crime, which takes place in the family setting in Muslim families, and is in direct contradiction with the democratic values and legal systems of Western states. The aim of this paper is to introduce the issue and illustrate it in relation to selected cases. It offers both an evaluative and descriptive stance.

scholarly journals Increasing Water Intake of Children and Parents in the Family Setting: A Randomized, Controlled Intervention Using Installation Theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (Suppl. 3) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saadi Lahlou ◽  
Sabine Boesen-Mariani ◽  
Bradley Franks ◽  
Isabelle Guelinckx
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Plain Water ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Dietary Record ◽  
The Family ◽  
One Year ◽  
Family Setting ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Consumption Habits

On average, children and adults in developed countries consume too little water, which can lead to negative health consequences. In a one-year longitudinal field experiment in Poland, we compared the impact of three home-based interventions on helping children and their parents/caregivers to develop sustainable increased plain water consumption habits. Fluid consumption of 334 children and their caregivers were recorded over one year using an online specific fluid dietary record. They were initially randomly allocated to one of the three following conditions: Control, Information (child and carer received information on the health benefits of water), or Placement (in addition to information, free small bottles of still water for a limited time period were delivered at home). After three months, half of the non-controls were randomly assigned to Community (child and caregiver engaged in an online community forum providing support on water consumption). All conditions significantly increased the water consumption of children (by 21.9-56.7%) and of adults (by 22-89%). Placement + Community generated the largest effects. Community enhanced the impact of Placement for children and parents, as well as the impact of Information for parents but not children. The results suggest that the family setting offers considerable scope for successful installation of interventions encouraging children and caregivers to develop healthier consumption habits, in mutually reinforcing ways. Combining information, affordances, and social influence gives the best, and most sustainable, results.

scholarly journals Beyond the ‘train-first’/‘work-first’ dichotomy: How welfare states help or hinder maternal employment

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kowalewska
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Female Parent ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Lone Mothers ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Work First

Since the mid-1990s, welfare states have introduced various ‘activation’ policies designed to promote employment. Most typologies distinguish between a Nordic-style ‘train-first’ approach focused on developing jobseekers’ employability and an Anglo-Saxon ‘work-first’ approach that instead emphasises quick job (re-)entry. These typologies tell us what activation means for the unemployed (male) worker. However, by ignoring the family, they overlook what activation means for the (female) parent-worker with childcare responsibilities. To contribute to filling this gap, this article uses fuzzy-set ideal-type analysis to compare 22 countries representing five ‘worlds’ of welfare by how (de-)activating their labour market policies, parental leave provisions, childcare services and the scheduling of primary education are for lone mothers. It reveals that cross-national variations in support for maternal activation are not well captured by the Nordic-style ‘train-first’/Anglo-Saxon ‘work-first’ dichotomy. Hence, despite the greater attention to gender and ‘new social risks’ within comparative social policy scholarship in recent years, the activation literature remains gender-blind.

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