scholarly journals Does She Want You to Open the Door? New Realities for Traditional Gendered Sexuality

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Towne ◽  
Elliot Ruggles ◽  
Betsy Crane ◽  
Meghan Root
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Behavioral Expectations ◽  
Contemporary United States

In contemporary United States culture, young people may face contradictory gender-related pressures. Changing gender norms resulting from social movements in the latter half of the twentieth century (e.g., sexual revolution, feminism) collide with traditional expectations, such as female virginity until marriage. This study used cross-gender focus groups to examine young people’s gendered experiences in the wake of social change. Data were collected with 35 millennials (ages 18-27) in Pennsylvania who self-identified as having traditional views about relationships and sexuality. Participants articulated current traditional expectations, which included educational and career responsibilities for women as well as behavioral expectations that participants associated with hyper-masculinity. Such expectations were often paradoxical and frequently contrasted with lived experiences. Participants coped with conflicting pressures by keeping secrets and leading double lives. These findings may help educators and clinicians recognize the complex social reality millennials face and assist them in balancing conflicting pressures.

scholarly journals PLAYING ON UNCLE SAM'S TEAM: AMERICAN CHILDHOODS DURING WORLD WAR I

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mischa Honeck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
World War I ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Constructions Of Childhood

If World War I has interested historians of the United States considerably less than other major wars, it is also true that children rank among the most neglected actors in the literature that exists on the topic. This essay challenges this limited understanding of the roles children and adolescents played in this transformative period by highlighting their importance in three different realms. It shows how childhood emerged as a contested resource in prewar debates over militarist versus pacifist education; examines the affective power of images of children—American as well as foreign—in U.S. wartime propaganda; and maps various social arenas in which the young engaged with the war on their own account. While constructions of childhood and youth as universally valid physical and developmental categories gained greater currency in the early twentieth century, investigations of young people in wartime reveal how much the realities of childhood and youth differed according to gender, class, race, region, and age.

scholarly journals “You Do It Through the Grapevine”: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Under-Age Access to Tobacco Among Adolescents From Seven European Cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110444
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. F. Hewer ◽  
Sarah Hill ◽  
Amanda Amos ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Adolescent Smoking ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Adolescent Smokers ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Commercial Sources

Despite efforts to reduce adolescent smoking via minimum age-of-sale legislation, many young people continue to access tobacco through a mix of social and commercial sources. Little is known about the roles of habitus, capital, and social topographies in shaping under-age access to tobacco. This article draws on Bourdieu’s theory of practice and data generated from 56 focus groups with 14- to 19-year-olds across seven European cities to answer the question “via what sources and by what means do adolescents obtain tobacco?” We find that adolescents use a range of personal capitals (social, cultural, and economic) to access tobacco, with the specific constitution and deployment of these capitals varying according to the regularities of different fields. Since adolescents access tobacco via culturally embedded practices, attempts to curtail this access are more likely to be effective if they are multi-pronged, culturally informed, and attuned to the lived experiences of adolescent smokers.

scholarly journals Dialectics of Complexity: A Five-Country Examination of Lived Experiences on Social Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512096515
Author(s):  
Gina M. Masullo ◽  
Martin J. Riedl ◽  
Ori Tenenboim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reflexive Modernization ◽  
The Will

This study examined people’s lived experiences with social media through 10 focus groups with 82 total participants across five countries: Brazil, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa, and the United States. Findings demonstrate that social media make people’s lives less complex, but this belies heightened complexity as they negotiate three paradoxes when using social media. We describe these as dialectics between: convenience versus privacy, trust versus distrust, and meaningful versus wasted time. These dialectics fit into one over-arching theme that social media make people feel better but also worse, sometimes at the same time. We characterize these experiences as negative—and likely unintended—side effects of reflexive modernization. According to our participants, these tensions leave people in a sort of existential limbo—knowing social media can distress them but not always having the will to leave.

Youth Cultures and Contexts

Making Change ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Tina P. Kruse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Limiting Parameters ◽  
The Individual

This chapter examines the most relevant youth contexts in the United States at this socio-historical point in time. To do so with any accuracy requires drawing on multiple fields of inquiry—youth contexts are not solely the study of developmental scientists. Thus, this chapter reviews prominent theories of cultural theorists, sociologists, educational researchers, and political scientists to establish a depiction of the contemporary American youth context. The aim is a macro-level view of the policies and practices influencing the individual youth micro-level, including the reader’s frame of reference. A brief examination of current cultural narratives about young people can inform analysis about limiting parameters: youth who lead social change are often portrayed as either “cute” or “dangerous,” with both views disparaging their efforts and undermining their credible power.

“Aliens” in the United States: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Foreign-Born Faculty

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joelle Cruz ◽  
James McDonald ◽  
Kirsten Broadfoot ◽  
Andy Kai-chun Chuang ◽  
Shiv Ganesh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Origin ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
Contemporary United States

We draw from our lived experiences as foreign workers in the U.S. academy to explore how foreign academic worker identity is constituted in the contemporary United States. We practice intersectionality by considering how our experiences of “foreignness” in the academy are intertwined with other markers of difference, including race, gender, sexuality, national origin, and age. We also draw from tenets of collaborative autoethnography, producing insight on three constitutive features of foreign worker identity through four narratives that draw from different genres in the autoethnographic tradition. The article highlights the value of collaborative autoethnography as a method of inquiry and reflection in organizational studies, provides a rare account of the ways in which intersectionality is negotiated in everyday life by foreign-born academics, and identifies features of the performance of foreign worker identity related to spatiality, presence, and absence.

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