Costs of social mobility in the context of intimate partner relationships. “It is really easy to be angry at someone who is in front of me and not at the system, which produces the inequalities between us”

Fanni Dés

doi:10.51624/szocszemle.2021.3.3

Costs of social mobility in the context of intimate partner relationships. “It is really easy to be angry at someone who is in front of me and not at the system, which produces the inequalities between us”

Szociológiai szemle ◽

10.51624/szocszemle.2021.3.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 51-73

Author(s):

Fanni Dés

Keyword(s):

Partner Selection ◽

Social Background ◽

Intimate Relationship ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Ethnic Inequality ◽

Internal Conflicts ◽

The Social ◽

Intimate Partner Relationships ◽

Gender Education ◽

Personal Accounts

Power inequalities originating from capitalist patriarchy are having an impact on and even determining our personal relationships: gender, class and ethnic inequality are consistently present in our intimate ties as well (Ridgeway 2009). For socially mobile individuals from lower classes, one of the main costs of moving between social classes is to exist in the complex conflict that arises from distancing from the social class of origin in order to integrate into new social spaces (Bourdieu 2005, Friedman 2016). These internal conflicts that are caused by broadened social structures are also present not just in the difficulty of finding a desired romantic partner (Durst at al. 2014) but in the process of sustaining an intimate relationship with someone from a particular social background as well. Structural inequalities are also determinative factors in partner selection, education homogamy and ethnic homogamy are highly present in society (Kamijn 1993, 1998, 2010, Kang Fu 2001). In this paper, through analysing narratives of educationally upwardly mobile women in Hungary, regarding intimate partner selection and looking at intimate relationships themselves, I aim to discover how their narratives reflect upon the hidden costs of mobility. I show how gender, education and ethnic inequalities emerge through the personal accounts of their mobility experiences and to what extent these inequalities determine the process of finding a desired partner or sustaining an existing intimate relationship.

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Developing a Financial Literacy Program with Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: The Voices of Survivors

Social Work ◽

10.1093/sw/swz034 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 (4) ◽

pp. 311-320

Author(s):

Amanda M Stylianou ◽

Elisabeth Counselman-Carpenter ◽

Alex Redcay

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Financial Literacy ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Field Studies ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

The Social ◽

Intimate Partner Relationships ◽

Financial Power ◽

Almost All ◽

Banking Credit

Abstract As the social work field increasingly recognizes economic abuse within intimate partner relationships, the field has developed financial empowerment programs to empower survivors for their financial future. Although research has demonstrated the effectiveness of financial literacy programs, there are barriers to their implementation in the field. Studies have explored, from the perspective of advocates, best practices in incorporating financial literacy into services; however, no studies have explored implementation approaches from the perspective of survivors. This study explores, from the perspective of 34 survivors, approaches for implementing financial literacy programming. Participants described their understanding of financial empowerment as being in charge of finances, having financial power, and not having to endure the struggle. To counter financial disempowerment, participants identified the need for financial confidence, knowledge, and tools. Participants shared their strategies for saving money, though many participants reported barriers to using banks as savings tools. Almost all participants stressed the importance of financial literacy services for survivors, especially around banking, credit, and debt. Finally, participants shared recommendations for job readiness and training programming. Findings have implications for domestic violence and broader social work organizations implementing financial empowerment services. Social workers can support financial empowerment efforts through program development and research efforts.

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Beginnings: Medicine and Social Mobility, c.1850–1950

Irish medical education and student culture, c.1850-1950 ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9781786940599.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Kelly

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Social Mobility ◽

Student Mobility ◽

Social Background ◽

Irish Context ◽

The Social ◽

Medical Career ◽

Personal Accounts ◽

Oral History Interviews ◽

Insight Into

This chapter provides an overview of the social backgrounds of a sample of medical students matriculating at Irish universities in the period arguing that in the Irish context, a medical career was an important avenue to social mobility for many students. Statistics relating to social background have been garnered through the use of matriculation records at Irish institutions and they suggest that the majority of students came from the middle or ‘middling’ classes but that there were important variations between Irish universities. Matriculation records also provide an insight into the geographic backgrounds of students, their previous education and where they lived during university. Drawing on the personal accounts of medical students in doctors’ memoirs, oral history interviews and student magazines, the chapter also assesses the reasons which underpinned men and women’s decision to pursue medicine in this period, arguing that social mobility was often at the heart of these decisions. Choice of medical school was also dependent on a range of factors, while students also had a choice of whether to aim at a degree or licence. Moreover, many nineteenth-century graduates obtained their qualifications in Scotland and England, so the issue of student mobility is particularly important in the Irish context.

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Inter-generational differences in partner selection criteria among women in Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan ◽

10.46521/pjws.026.02.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 127-148

Author(s):

Ayesha Khalid ◽

Syeda Salma Hassan

Keyword(s):

Generational Differences ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Age Groups ◽

Partner Selection ◽

Social Background ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

General Internal ◽

The Social ◽

Technological Transition ◽

The Difference

Partner selection and marriage choices have become interesting research topics in societies experiencing transition due to technological advancements and modernisation. This qualitative study was envisaged to identify the differences in partner selection criteria among three generations of Pakistani women. Three independent age groups were selected to analyse the difference among them due to social and technological transition. The participants were recruited purposefully for semi-structured interviews from six different families, three women of subsequent age groups (grandmothers, mothers, and their marriageable grand/daughters) were chosen (N=18). The interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Line-by-line coding was done to extract the relevant and repetitive codes that comprised sub and main themes. Findings show that the social background and compatibility between potential families remained the most important aspects in general. Internal attributes such as religiousness and morality, and external attributes, specifically good financial status, decent occupation and job, were considered significant partner selection criteria as well. The factors that affect the partner selection choices directly included collectivist beliefs and disempowerment of women. Inter-generational differences and transitions in the desirability of partner selection criteria were evident as an expected outcome of the questions posed by the current study. The implications include extending knowledge for marriage and relationship counsellors.

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Incompatibility and incongruity: two different mechanisms for the non-functioning of intimate partner relationships

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.1975.0025 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 188 (1092) ◽

pp. 361-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 99

Keyword(s):

Intimate Relationship ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

S Gene ◽

Intimate Partner Relationships ◽

Incompatibility System ◽

Partner Relationships ◽

The Relationship

A review of the literature is given to show that the hypothesis that non-functioning of the pistil-pollen relationship is solely based on the incompatibility system can no longer be maintained and that in non-functioning of the interpopulational pistil-pollen relationship/other principles are involved. A new theory regarding these principles is dealt with. The relationship between pistil and pollen is described as an intimate relationship based on matching genic systems which result from co-evolution. This theory allows two distinct mechanisms for the non-functioning of intimate partner relationships: incompatibility and incongruity. The nature, evolution, genetics and action of these mechanisms are compared. A simple letter model for matching genic systems and for incongruity in these systems is given. Applications of the new insight gained by the distinction between incompatibility and incongruity are reviewed and some consequences for research discussed. It is concluded that the influence of the S gene has been greatly overestimated, the importance of incongruity underestimated.

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The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society ◽

10.1017/s0080440100017540 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 51-79

Author(s):

K. Edwards

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Social Background ◽

Early Career ◽

The Political ◽

Social Origins ◽

Political Activities ◽

Edward Ii ◽

The Social ◽

Complete Study ◽

History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

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