Home, front, and mobile phones: The case of the Second Lebanon War

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hananel Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Home Front ◽  
High Price ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Time Availability ◽  
Senior Officers ◽  
Second Lebanon War ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper deals with the cellphone’s role in the Second Lebanon War. Via in-depth interviews (N=20) with officers and combat soldiers, the study shows how soldiers’ cellular devices served a range of objectives: military, personal documentary, communication with home and family, and updating the home front and other battle sectors. On the military level, cellular enables the generation of the “cellular buddy” phenomenon, or the ability to consult with extra-organizational parties — such as friends who are former senior officers — which led to impeding the army’s internal chain of command. On the personal-experiential level, this section presents the “availability conflict” that the soldiers described, between their desire to be in touch with home during the war and the high price thereof. Full-time availability and the lack of ability to disconnect “brings” the home front, the home, and the family directly to the battlefield, thus affecting the soldiers’ already-complex experiential and mental state.

The Home Front

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-131
Author(s):  
Robert L. McLaughlin ◽  
Sally E. Parry
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Town ◽  
Carpe Diem ◽  
Rapid Transformation

Wartime America underwent rapid transformation; men, women, and children saw their social roles redefined; and economic and racial divisions grew deeper and sharper edged. Theater was the perfect medium to represent home-front tensions and anxieties as they were manifested on the local level: the congenital civilian thrust into the military life as in Strip for Action and This Is the Army; the family pressured by rapid and dynamic social transformations as in Three's a Family, A New Life, and Men to the Sea; couples pressured by the carpe-diem spirit of the wartime romance as in On the Town and Those Endearing Young Charms; adolescents, often tempted into juvenile delinquency with the freedom of looser rules and mores as in Janie and Pick-Up Girl; men and women balancing patriotism and selfishness, as in The Voice of the Turtle and the shocking Tomorrow the World.

scholarly journals Resiliensi Istri Tentara (TNI-AD) Yang Tinggal di Asrama Ketika Suami Bertugas di Daerah Konflik

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Fransiska Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Military Wives ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
Individual Factor ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Factor I ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Criteria ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews

Separated from husbands because of their assignment is not easy for the wives, many problems that will be faced by the wives related to changes of roles and responsibilities in the family. Resilience is needed by the military wives in facing many problems, so that they can live well. This is a qualitative research with an interpretive phenomenological approach. Data was collected by in-depth interviews with 6 participants, namely the military wives in accordance with the research criteria. The research results were analyzed using IPA (Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis) This study produced 6 themes, namely: understanding the husband's assignment, feeling proud but worried when the husbands were on duty, facing sorrow as military wives, difficulty in replacing the fathers’ roles in caring for children, trying to find support, adapting to difficult conditions. The six themes finally rise to one big theme, namely the resilience of military wives to be able to achieve family stability. Based on this study, it can be concluded that the main requirements for people to survive any problems in their life is the resilience. Resilience is formed by 3 things: I am (individual factor), I have (support) and I can (ability possessed)

scholarly journals The Transition to Parenthood in the French and German Speaking Parts of Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regula Zimmermann ◽  
Jean-Marie LeGoff
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Labor Division ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
The Family ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Full Time Employment ◽  
Depth Interviews

After the first transition to parenthood, most couples adopt a gendered labor division, where mothers become main caregivers and fathers breadwinners of the family. By comparing two distinct language regions within one country, the present article explores how parents’ gendered labor division comes into existence and what role gendered culture and social policy play. The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with 23 German speaking and 73 French speaking participants from Switzerland. The results reveal that French speaking women and men presume an egalitarian labor division as parents. In German speaking regions, however, participants anticipate that mothers will become the main caregivers and fathers the breadwinners. It is shown that the labor market structure, which is in line with the male breadwinner norm, contributes to men’s full-time employment, whereas mothers’ labor market insertion is influenced by the acceptance of non-parental childcare and to a lesser extent by the offer of childcare facilities. Further, mothers experience more time conflicts than fathers, and the less mothers’ paid work is accepted, the more they suffer from feelings of guilt when being employed.

scholarly journals TRAJETÓRIAS DE LONGEVIDADE ESCOLAR E DISPOSIÇÕES SOCIAIS DE ESTUDANTES NEGROS/AS COTISTAS DA UNILAB – CESCHOOL LONGEVITY TRAJECTORIES AND SOCIAL DISPOSITIONS OF BLACK QUOTA STUDENTS OF UNILAB – CE

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Francisco Érick de Oliveira ◽  
Carlos Henrique Lopes Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Family Support ◽  
School Success ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Positive Meaning ◽  
Individual Scale ◽  
The University ◽  
Depth Interviews

Investigamos em escala individual a longevidade escolar de sete estudantes negros/as cotistas da Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-brasileira, selecionados/as para as vagas de autodeclarados pretos, pardos ou indígenas de escolas públicas (Lei nº 12.711/2012). Trabalhamos com dois destes casos pela perspectiva disposicional em trajetórias biográficas, enfatizando configurações familiares e escolarização. Recorremos aos debates sobre a relação família-escola como explicação do sucesso/fracasso escolar, e os dados resultantes são instigantes pela tensão entre as condições de possibilidade de classe e a dimensão étnico-racial. Utilizamos um questionário socioeconômico e cultural e, na etapa principal, entrevistas em profundidade. As configurações que possibilitaram a produção, potencialização e/ou transferência de disposições de longevidade foram: apoio familiar; reconhecimento da educação como meio de mobilidade social; significados práticos e positivos com a escola; afetividades; atividades culturais, científicas e esportivas intra/extraescolares; ensino médio profissionalizante de tempo integral; e organizações domésticas que orbitam a educação e a escola.ABSTRACT We investigated on an individual scale the school longevity of seven black students of the University of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony, self-declared black students, brown or indigenous and from public schools (Law nº. 12.711/2012). We worked with 2 of these cases through the dispositional perspective in biographical trajectories, emphasizing family and schooling configurations. We resort to debates about the family-school relationship as an explanation of school success / failure, and the resulting data is thought provoking by the tension between the conditions of class possibility and the ethnic-racial dimension. We used a socioeconomic and cultural questionnaire and, then, we worked with in-depth interviews. The configurations that allowed the production, empowerment and/or transfer of longevity dispositions were: family support; recognition of education as a way for social mobility; practical and positive meaning with school; affectivities; intra/extracurricular cultural, scientific and sportive activities; vocational and full-time high school; and domestic morals organized around education.

Informalitas Dalam Formalitas: Sebuah Kajian Budaya Organisasi Perusahaan Keluarga

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Hardiyanti Munsi ◽  
Ahmad Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Family ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Big Men

This article intends to identify and to describe the unique structure and the managing style that owns primordial characteristics, that is giving significance to kinship, religion, and local Bugis cultural values, which made up the cultural system of PT. Hadji Kalla family business. Theoritically, this research was inspired from Weberian perspective on the ideal types of bureaucracy, that observes organizations (in this case is the family business) as one of the socio-cultural phenomena which is neutral and value-free, that is place aside its subjective aspects. The research was conducted in two locations, the head office and one of the branch offices using qualitative approach that relies on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and literature studies. The results of the research shows that the family business of PT. Hadji Kalla that has advanced into national level still prioritizes kinship, ethnicity, and religious aspects in the daily activities of the company. The value even take parts in providing the company’s colour to the urban societies in various districts where the company stands. This means that although the society has undergone transformations, it doesn’t mean that the primordial value, and the elements that exist outside of businesses (such as kinship, big men, religion, cultural values, and interest) do not influence the activities that are held in formal organizations. Therefore, the interventions of subjective aspects will always appear, followed with the application of the modern management system that is implemented by PT. Hadji Kalla company.

Mereka yang Tidak Dibayar Tinggi: Ibuisme, Taman Kanak-kanak, dan Kampung di Indramayu

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Mochammad Arief Wicaksono
Keyword(s):  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Family ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Community Pressure ◽  
The Village ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Ideal

The ideology of state-ibuism has always been interwoven with how the New Order regime until nowadays government constructing the “ideal” role of women in the family and community through the PKK (Pembinaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga) organization. However, in Cangkring Village, Indramayu, the ideology of ibuism works not because of the massive government regulating the role of women through the PKK organization, but it is possible because of the structure of the kampung community itself. Through involved observations and in-depth interviews about a kindergarten in the village, a group of housewives who dedicated themselves to teaching in kindergarten were met without getting paid high. From these socio-cultural phenomenons, this paper will describe descriptively and analytically that housewives in the Cangkring village are willing to become kindergarten teachers because of their moral burden as part of the warga kampung and also from community pressure from people who want their children to be able to read and write.

scholarly journals Welcome to the Regular World! Exploring How Female Doctorate Holders in Education Transition from Irregular to Regular Work in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5347
Author(s):  
Hyosun Kim ◽  
Sooyong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Regular Work ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study was to explore the adaptation process of female Ph.D. holders working in universities who shifted from being irregular employees to regular employees. The study adopted a qualitative approach using in-depth interviews to investigate participants’ experiences and discover any inconsistencies, as well as how they are alleviated. The basic findings of the study indicate that the adaptation process is more feasible when the gap between the personal aspect of job adaptation and the organizational environment and satisfaction with it decreases. The participants in the study joined the labour union to convert to regular jobs. However, after transitioning to full-time positions, the participants did not realize the structural aspect of the contracts they had signed. Although they expected to make their unfair situation more fair through the transition of their job positions, they still faced structural discrimination. As the participants were women with doctoral degrees, their professionalism was considered a cardinal value, and their job satisfaction varied according to the degree of matching between their work and their expertise. Moreover, during the evaluation period, they began to establish themselves as legitimate members of their teams through the employee evaluation procedure of full-time employees, which is conducted mutually rather than unilaterally. Through its in-depth interviews with transitioning university staff, this study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how female faculty adjust to changes in their life and position in the organization following a change in their status. These findings prove that higher education institutions need focus on career development for female students as well as their faculty and staff members. Such a focus also requires more active actions by university and college members.

Beekeeping as a family artisan entrepreneurship business

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veland Ramadani ◽  
Robert D. Hisrich ◽  
Leo-Paul Dana ◽  
Ramo Palalic ◽  
Laxman Panthi
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
Rural Families ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose Throughout Macedonia, beekeeping is becoming popular regardless of ethnicity. Studying ethnicity, the purpose of this paper is to determine what beekeepers in Macedonia thought in their own words about their beekeeping entrepreneurship. The objective is to identify whether motivations of ethnic Albanian beekeepers in Macedonia were the same or different compared to those of ethnic Macedonians in the same country, and if different, how. Design/methodology/approach To accomplish this objective, in-depth interviews were conducted with 40 beekeepers in Macedonia. A total of 29 interviews were conducted face-to-face and the other 11 by phone. The first set of interviews took place between December 2016 and February 2017, followed by more interviews in June 2017. In total, 27 respondents said they were ethnic Albanians, and 13 identified themselves as ethnic Macedonians. Also, ten respondents were women. While eight were full-time beekeepers, 32 were part-time beekeepers. Findings The results indicated that beekeeping businesses play a significant role in the transition economy of Macedonia. Beekeeping provides additional earnings that support rural families and keeps them financially stable. The majority of both Albanians and Macedonians understood that beekeeping on a part-time job basis provided a needed supplement to their income. Some part-time beekeepers are also working as auto-mechanics, locksmiths, medical doctors, restaurant/cafeteria owners, and tailors. A few in the sample were retired from their jobs or full-time beekeepers. An important difference between ethnic Albanian beekeepers and ethnic Macedonians in Macedonia is that the majority of ethnic Albanian participants see beekeeping as following in “my father’s footsteps”, while most Macedonians were motivated by the perceived opportunity of having a good business. Research limitations/implications Limitations of the research are twofold. First, financial data of family beekeeping are not available, which would be useful in determining the contribution made to economic development. It is common, especially in transition economies such as the western Balkans, that financial results are very sensitive to their owners. Second, unavailable databases for beekeepers make any quantitative approach difficult, if not impossible, resulting in most research using the qualitative research approach. Originality/value This paper is one of the first to treat beekeeping as a form of artisan entrepreneurship, which also contributes to the understanding of family business. As in other countries, the important and operation of the family business among family members in Macedonia is passed from generation to generation. The results of this research revealed the value of networking, which was found to be very important to income. For beekeepers to develop, grow, and be branded in the community, networking is an important ingredient.

scholarly journals The engagement and retention of non-profit employees in Belgium and South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Renard ◽  
Robin J. Snelgar
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Basis ◽  
Depth Interviews

Orientation: A lack of qualitative research exists that investigates work engagement and retention within Belgium and South Africa, particularly within the non-profit sector.Research purpose: The study aimed to gather in-depth qualitative data pertaining to the factors that promote work engagement and retention amongst non-profit employees working within these two countries.Motivation for the study: Because of scarce funding and resources, non-profit organisations are pressured to retain their talented employees, with high levels of turnover being a standard for low-paid, human-service positions. However, when individuals are engaged in their work, they display lower turnover intentions, suggesting the importance of work engagement in relation to retention.Research design, approach and method: Non-probability purposive and convenience sampling was used to organise in-depth interviews with 25 paid non-profit employees working on either a full-time or a part-time basis within Belgium and South Africa. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data produced.Main findings: Participants were found to be absorbed in, dedicated to and energised by their work, and revealed numerous aspects promoting their retention including working towards a purpose, finding fulfilment in their tasks and working in a caring environment.Practical/managerial implications: Non-profit organisations should develop positive work environments for their employees to sustain their levels of work engagement, as well as place significance on intrinsic rewards in order to retain employees.Contribution: This study provides insights into the means by which non-profit employees across two nations demonstrate their enthusiasm, pride and involvement in the work that they perform. It moreover sheds light on the factors contributing to such employees intending to leave or stay within the employment of their organisations.

The role of entrepreneurial families in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the family social capital approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Benavides-Salazar ◽  
Cristina Iturrioz-Landart ◽  
Cristina Aragón-Amonarriz ◽  
Asunción Ibañez-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Family Social Capital ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Entrepreneurial Dynamics

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how entrepreneurial families (EFs) influence the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) by using the family social capital (FSC) approach. Design/methodology/approach For this paper, the authors analyzed the Manizales EE as a case study. The authors used a variety of data collection procedures, including in-depth interviews with 26 entrepreneurs and mentors. Findings The authors established how EFs affect EE development, identifying how the FSC bridging mechanisms impact the EE’s social and cultural attributes, boosting entrepreneurial dynamics. Originality/value The results indicated the relevance of EFs’ embeddedness and the degree of the FSC institutionalization in promoting of entrepreneurship within the EEs.

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