N. J. Sewell‐Rutter
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199227334
- eISBN:
- 9780191711152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199227334.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the characteristics of a Greek tragedy. It then explains the purpose of the book, which is to shed new light on one of the central concerns ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the characteristics of a Greek tragedy. It then explains the purpose of the book, which is to shed new light on one of the central concerns of tragedy, and contribute to the understanding of the peculiar quiddity of this inescapably absorbing genre. An overview of the succeeding chapters is presented.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the characteristics of a Greek tragedy. It then explains the purpose of the book, which is to shed new light on one of the central concerns of tragedy, and contribute to the understanding of the peculiar quiddity of this inescapably absorbing genre. An overview of the succeeding chapters is presented.
Sarah Harper
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- July 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199251162
- eISBN:
- 9780191602740
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199251169.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter examines grandparenting as an integral part of intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies. It argues that rather than creating a new order of relationships between generations, ...
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This chapter examines grandparenting as an integral part of intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies. It argues that rather than creating a new order of relationships between generations, divorce and family change may represent solidarity with the past, whereby family solidarity is required for survival rather than a matter of free will or lifestyle choice. The care of elders, gift giving and inheritance, and relationships with ex in-laws and step in-laws are discussed.Less
This chapter examines grandparenting as an integral part of intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies. It argues that rather than creating a new order of relationships between generations, divorce and family change may represent solidarity with the past, whereby family solidarity is required for survival rather than a matter of free will or lifestyle choice. The care of elders, gift giving and inheritance, and relationships with ex in-laws and step in-laws are discussed.
Paula S. Fass
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195310122
- eISBN:
- 9780199865284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310122.003.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children and Families
This chapter provides an historical overview of the problems and issues of childrearing in American families. By the 19th century, domestic family life began to concentrate on childrearing, ...
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This chapter provides an historical overview of the problems and issues of childrearing in American families. By the 19th century, domestic family life began to concentrate on childrearing, especially in the privacy-seeking middle class and childrearing experts began to provide anxious parents with advice. By the early 20th century, this advice became the basis for a small industry as the family was increasing organized around affective relationships bound together through emotion more than economic obligation. Tracing the shifting patterns of family relations and vulnerabilities, the chapter helps to remind us that although contemporary concerns are not exactly the same as in the past, social anxieties about the fragility of family life are not unique to the 21st century.Less
This chapter provides an historical overview of the problems and issues of childrearing in American families. By the 19th century, domestic family life began to concentrate on childrearing, especially in the privacy-seeking middle class and childrearing experts began to provide anxious parents with advice. By the early 20th century, this advice became the basis for a small industry as the family was increasing organized around affective relationships bound together through emotion more than economic obligation. Tracing the shifting patterns of family relations and vulnerabilities, the chapter helps to remind us that although contemporary concerns are not exactly the same as in the past, social anxieties about the fragility of family life are not unique to the 21st century.
Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199266722
- eISBN:
- 9780191601941
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266727.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
Identifies the main trends in family policy across European countries over the last decade or so and analyses how these developments are to be interpreted, especially in the context of what they ...
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Identifies the main trends in family policy across European countries over the last decade or so and analyses how these developments are to be interpreted, especially in the context of what they reveal about how the Third Way approaches the family. Family policy, and more generally the relationship between the state and the family, is changing. Among the most notable changes are: a heightened interest on the part of the state in family solidarity (especially as it relates to the behaviour of men); a move to treat children independently of their families and to grant them individual rights; a tendency to treat both parents as workers; a move towards a greater welfare mix; and a move towards gender neutrality for the purposes of social policy. In terms of an explanation, while many of these developments have some common currency with Third Way thinking, they are not fully comprehensible in terms of the advance of a Third Way project as such. Rather, they draw their origins from different sources, and, by and large, are very influenced by historical and contemporary processes at national level.Less
Identifies the main trends in family policy across European countries over the last decade or so and analyses how these developments are to be interpreted, especially in the context of what they reveal about how the Third Way approaches the family. Family policy, and more generally the relationship between the state and the family, is changing. Among the most notable changes are: a heightened interest on the part of the state in family solidarity (especially as it relates to the behaviour of men); a move to treat children independently of their families and to grant them individual rights; a tendency to treat both parents as workers; a move towards a greater welfare mix; and a move towards gender neutrality for the purposes of social policy. In terms of an explanation, while many of these developments have some common currency with Third Way thinking, they are not fully comprehensible in terms of the advance of a Third Way project as such. Rather, they draw their origins from different sources, and, by and large, are very influenced by historical and contemporary processes at national level.
Edna Brown, Terri L. Orbuch, and Artie Maharaj
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195380170
- eISBN:
- 9780199864355
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380170.003.0013
- Subject:
- Psychology, Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This chapter examines the effects of social networks on marital stability among Black American and White American couples, using data from the Early Years of Marriage Project. The authors highlight ...
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This chapter examines the effects of social networks on marital stability among Black American and White American couples, using data from the Early Years of Marriage Project. The authors highlight how support from the broader social network, especially from family and religious organizations, plays a role in marital stability, and how this role can differ for Black American and White American couples.Less
This chapter examines the effects of social networks on marital stability among Black American and White American couples, using data from the Early Years of Marriage Project. The authors highlight how support from the broader social network, especially from family and religious organizations, plays a role in marital stability, and how this role can differ for Black American and White American couples.
Denise Tse-Shang Tang
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789888083015
- eISBN:
- 9789882209855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083015.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Family interactions in living spaces can be perceived as specific practices in a spatial context that lay claim to how certain gender and sexual codings are formed, normalized, and regulated. Family ...
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Family interactions in living spaces can be perceived as specific practices in a spatial context that lay claim to how certain gender and sexual codings are formed, normalized, and regulated. Family and space are interconnected concepts that can be found in two colloquial Cantonese terms. The first term denotes a house, a physical dwelling and a family space. The second term points to family members and by implication, persons underneath one roof, which can be perceived as a form of cohabitation. This chapter discusses the complexities within family relations and how outside forces affect the ways respondents view their relations with family members in response to their sexualities. The issue of living together creates many difficulties for respondents when it comes to hiding their sexualities and, as a result, they come up with multiple coping strategies to live with family members.Less
Family interactions in living spaces can be perceived as specific practices in a spatial context that lay claim to how certain gender and sexual codings are formed, normalized, and regulated. Family and space are interconnected concepts that can be found in two colloquial Cantonese terms. The first term denotes a house, a physical dwelling and a family space. The second term points to family members and by implication, persons underneath one roof, which can be perceived as a form of cohabitation. This chapter discusses the complexities within family relations and how outside forces affect the ways respondents view their relations with family members in response to their sexualities. The issue of living together creates many difficulties for respondents when it comes to hiding their sexualities and, as a result, they come up with multiple coping strategies to live with family members.
Jonathan Edmondson
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199268412
- eISBN:
- 9780191708589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199268412.003.07
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter investigates funerary commemorations in Lusitania, a province of ancient Rome, by analysing all funerary inscriptions from seven different towns or regions. Examining factors such as ...
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This chapter investigates funerary commemorations in Lusitania, a province of ancient Rome, by analysing all funerary inscriptions from seven different towns or regions. Examining factors such as gender, age, and onomastic conventions, it argues for a direct relationship between Rome's political presence and the shape of social relations in the province, while at the same time tracing the presence of indigenous cultural attitudes, such as the particularly high valuation of women, which diverged from Roman norms. In Lusitania, as in Egypt, it seems that families might have assumed a Roman form to some degree while at the same time maintaining attitudes and behaviours rooted in the pre-Roman context. Aside from the role of gender and age in funerary commemorations, joint burials and joint acts of commemoration are also discussed along with onomastics and kinship and the predominance of the nuclear family.Less
This chapter investigates funerary commemorations in Lusitania, a province of ancient Rome, by analysing all funerary inscriptions from seven different towns or regions. Examining factors such as gender, age, and onomastic conventions, it argues for a direct relationship between Rome's political presence and the shape of social relations in the province, while at the same time tracing the presence of indigenous cultural attitudes, such as the particularly high valuation of women, which diverged from Roman norms. In Lusitania, as in Egypt, it seems that families might have assumed a Roman form to some degree while at the same time maintaining attitudes and behaviours rooted in the pre-Roman context. Aside from the role of gender and age in funerary commemorations, joint burials and joint acts of commemoration are also discussed along with onomastics and kinship and the predominance of the nuclear family.
Shehzad Nadeem
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147871
- eISBN:
- 9781400836697
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147871.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This book explores the paradoxical effects of globalization on young Indians employed in the outsourcing industry: they are reaping the benefits of the corporate search for cut-rate labor but also ...
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This book explores the paradoxical effects of globalization on young Indians employed in the outsourcing industry: they are reaping the benefits of the corporate search for cut-rate labor but also shouldering the weight of the global restructuring of work. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in India and the United States, the book highlights the cyclical humiliations and joys of life under transnational capitalism by focusing on factors such as managerial styles, workplace culture, and family and social relations. It argues that while Indian workers receive relatively high wages (in India), they are also subject to what Karl Marx called the “dull compulsion of economic relations,” and the forms of discipline and surveillance issuing thereof. It also considers the culture of the economy and the economy of culture: the strictures and structures by which social life and human creativity are hedged.Less
This book explores the paradoxical effects of globalization on young Indians employed in the outsourcing industry: they are reaping the benefits of the corporate search for cut-rate labor but also shouldering the weight of the global restructuring of work. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in India and the United States, the book highlights the cyclical humiliations and joys of life under transnational capitalism by focusing on factors such as managerial styles, workplace culture, and family and social relations. It argues that while Indian workers receive relatively high wages (in India), they are also subject to what Karl Marx called the “dull compulsion of economic relations,” and the forms of discipline and surveillance issuing thereof. It also considers the culture of the economy and the economy of culture: the strictures and structures by which social life and human creativity are hedged.
Ruth Katz and Ariela Lowenstein
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422057
- eISBN:
- 9781447301424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422057.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter aims to highlight the development of the conceptual and theoretical bases on which the intergenerational solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms were shaped. It notes that further ...
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This chapter aims to highlight the development of the conceptual and theoretical bases on which the intergenerational solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms were shaped. It notes that further analysis of the two paradigms can provide insight for understanding the complex social phenomenon of intergenerational family relations in later life. It addresses and analyse the two models and discusses empirical evidence regarding their impact on quality of life, based on OASIS (Old Age and Anatomy: The Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Family Solidarity).Less
This chapter aims to highlight the development of the conceptual and theoretical bases on which the intergenerational solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms were shaped. It notes that further analysis of the two paradigms can provide insight for understanding the complex social phenomenon of intergenerational family relations in later life. It addresses and analyse the two models and discusses empirical evidence regarding their impact on quality of life, based on OASIS (Old Age and Anatomy: The Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Family Solidarity).
Misa Izuhara (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422057
- eISBN:
- 9781447301424
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422057.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are forming partly due to significant family changes, value shifts, precariousness ...
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With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are forming partly due to significant family changes, value shifts, precariousness in the labour market, and increasing mobility within and beyond national boundaries. This book explores the exchange of support between generations and examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societies around the world. It draws on theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses to discuss both newly emerging patterns of family reciprocity and more established ones which are affected by changing opportunities and pressures in contemporary societies. The book is split into two parts: the first reviews key theoretical and conceptual debates in this field, while the second offers new insights and an understanding of exchange practices based on case studies from different regions and different relationships.Less
With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are forming partly due to significant family changes, value shifts, precariousness in the labour market, and increasing mobility within and beyond national boundaries. This book explores the exchange of support between generations and examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societies around the world. It draws on theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses to discuss both newly emerging patterns of family reciprocity and more established ones which are affected by changing opportunities and pressures in contemporary societies. The book is split into two parts: the first reviews key theoretical and conceptual debates in this field, while the second offers new insights and an understanding of exchange practices based on case studies from different regions and different relationships.
Åsa Lundqvist
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424556
- eISBN:
- 9781447302339
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424556.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This book explores the political regulation of the family in Sweden. It examines the historical development of family policy and the ensuing institutionalisation of gender equality in that context. ...
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This book explores the political regulation of the family in Sweden. It examines the historical development of family policy and the ensuing institutionalisation of gender equality in that context. The analysis begins in the 1930s, when the family became an increasingly important reform object within the political sphere, and goes all the way to 2010, when family relations remain a key part of the interface between family policy, gender equality, and labour-market policy. This chapter introduces the complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship between ideologies and steering models in the development of family policy. A core feature of this development is the close relationship between policy making and social-science analysis of gender and family relations.Less
This book explores the political regulation of the family in Sweden. It examines the historical development of family policy and the ensuing institutionalisation of gender equality in that context. The analysis begins in the 1930s, when the family became an increasingly important reform object within the political sphere, and goes all the way to 2010, when family relations remain a key part of the interface between family policy, gender equality, and labour-market policy. This chapter introduces the complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship between ideologies and steering models in the development of family policy. A core feature of this development is the close relationship between policy making and social-science analysis of gender and family relations.
David J. Bearison and Raymond K. Mulhern (eds)
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195079319
- eISBN:
- 9780199999804
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195079319.001.0001
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
As the practice of pediatric oncology continues to advance and prognoses continue to improve, the course of treatment for children with poor prognoses becomes more biologically aggressive, more ...
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As the practice of pediatric oncology continues to advance and prognoses continue to improve, the course of treatment for children with poor prognoses becomes more biologically aggressive, more stressful, and more uncertain. Even for children who cannot be cured, new treatments have prolonged the survival of those with active disease and, consequently, medical interventions have complicated the dying process. For those who are cured, there are the lingering uncertainties of having undergone medical regimens whose adverse late effects are not yet fully understood. Consequently the field of pediatric oncology now encompasses more than strictly medical concerns. The conditions of treatment, survival, and dying have become the concerns of all health-care practitioners, including psychiatrists. This volume addresses a range of psychological issues—coping with pediatric cancer, pain and symptom management, medication compliance, sibling and family relations, care of the dying child, among others—pertaining to the practice of pediatric oncology. Each topic encompasses a substantial body of research that has theoretical and applied significance. Each chapter contextually defines the research area, discusses its theoretical and methodological concerns, critically reviews and integrates research findings in the area, discusses unresolved research issues, and suggests future research. The topics included are currently supported by sufficient empirical research to allow useful generalization of findings in the clinical setting.Less
As the practice of pediatric oncology continues to advance and prognoses continue to improve, the course of treatment for children with poor prognoses becomes more biologically aggressive, more stressful, and more uncertain. Even for children who cannot be cured, new treatments have prolonged the survival of those with active disease and, consequently, medical interventions have complicated the dying process. For those who are cured, there are the lingering uncertainties of having undergone medical regimens whose adverse late effects are not yet fully understood. Consequently the field of pediatric oncology now encompasses more than strictly medical concerns. The conditions of treatment, survival, and dying have become the concerns of all health-care practitioners, including psychiatrists. This volume addresses a range of psychological issues—coping with pediatric cancer, pain and symptom management, medication compliance, sibling and family relations, care of the dying child, among others—pertaining to the practice of pediatric oncology. Each topic encompasses a substantial body of research that has theoretical and applied significance. Each chapter contextually defines the research area, discusses its theoretical and methodological concerns, critically reviews and integrates research findings in the area, discusses unresolved research issues, and suggests future research. The topics included are currently supported by sufficient empirical research to allow useful generalization of findings in the clinical setting.
Merry Isaacs White
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217546
- eISBN:
- 9780520936591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217546.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter emphasizes postwar families as constructions of a democratic model supporting reconstruction and growth in Japan. Traditionalism combines with an easy and relaxed, even democratic, style ...
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This chapter emphasizes postwar families as constructions of a democratic model supporting reconstruction and growth in Japan. Traditionalism combines with an easy and relaxed, even democratic, style in their family relations. In the postwar decades from 1947 to the present, a democratic but strongly gender-role-determined unit has taken the patriarchal household's place. This family is designed to be capable of expanding engagement with a consumer economy even as it protects the future of its dependent elderly or its children, perpetuating older concepts of effort and family values. What has commonly been taken as the postwar family now shows up clearly as a series of historically situated family events, spanning several eras in the last half-century. The postwar model of the family was intended both to stabilize and to shake up conventional experience of the time.Less
This chapter emphasizes postwar families as constructions of a democratic model supporting reconstruction and growth in Japan. Traditionalism combines with an easy and relaxed, even democratic, style in their family relations. In the postwar decades from 1947 to the present, a democratic but strongly gender-role-determined unit has taken the patriarchal household's place. This family is designed to be capable of expanding engagement with a consumer economy even as it protects the future of its dependent elderly or its children, perpetuating older concepts of effort and family values. What has commonly been taken as the postwar family now shows up clearly as a series of historically situated family events, spanning several eras in the last half-century. The postwar model of the family was intended both to stabilize and to shake up conventional experience of the time.
Joel Thomas Walker
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520245785
- eISBN:
- 9780520932197
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520245785.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter examines the rhetoric of family relations in Sasanian martyr literature, focusing on the legend of Mar Qardagh. Familial strife is a critical leitmotif of the Qardagh legend, yet there ...
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This chapter examines the rhetoric of family relations in Sasanian martyr literature, focusing on the legend of Mar Qardagh. Familial strife is a critical leitmotif of the Qardagh legend, yet there has been no previous commentary on this aspect of the legend. En route to his martyrdom, Qardagh separates himself from the obligations invoked by his parents, wife, father-in-law, and other “noble relatives,” only to be executed by his own father. Both the historical and the narrative dimensions of these events require explication. The fierce clash between Qardagh and his father assumes a familiarity with the traditions of Sasanian patriarchy, revealed for instance in Zoroastrian law. The hagiographer understood, and expected his audience to recognize, the normative family structures of the Persian (and “Persianized”) elites of late Sasanian Iraq. Identifying and defining these Sasanian elements clarifies the hagiographer's distinctive rendition of the topos of familial renunciation.Less
This chapter examines the rhetoric of family relations in Sasanian martyr literature, focusing on the legend of Mar Qardagh. Familial strife is a critical leitmotif of the Qardagh legend, yet there has been no previous commentary on this aspect of the legend. En route to his martyrdom, Qardagh separates himself from the obligations invoked by his parents, wife, father-in-law, and other “noble relatives,” only to be executed by his own father. Both the historical and the narrative dimensions of these events require explication. The fierce clash between Qardagh and his father assumes a familiarity with the traditions of Sasanian patriarchy, revealed for instance in Zoroastrian law. The hagiographer understood, and expected his audience to recognize, the normative family structures of the Persian (and “Persianized”) elites of late Sasanian Iraq. Identifying and defining these Sasanian elements clarifies the hagiographer's distinctive rendition of the topos of familial renunciation.
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217201
- eISBN:
- 9780520922389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217201.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the impact of the Marriage Law on the Chinese family. This book investigates the extent to which stats can change family ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the impact of the Marriage Law on the Chinese family. This book investigates the extent to which stats can change family structure, family relations and conceptions of proper family behavior. It argues that the Marriage Law continued to shape family dynamics not only after the 1950s and that its effects were felt intensely in rural areas and among rural-educated people in cities throughout the 1950s and 1960s.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the impact of the Marriage Law on the Chinese family. This book investigates the extent to which stats can change family structure, family relations and conceptions of proper family behavior. It argues that the Marriage Law continued to shape family dynamics not only after the 1950s and that its effects were felt intensely in rural areas and among rural-educated people in cities throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Satsuki Kawano
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833725
- eISBN:
- 9780824870850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833725.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter considers the relationship between ash scattering and family relations. It critically examines the historical-transition thesis, which is sometimes employed to argue that new mortuary ...
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This chapter considers the relationship between ash scattering and family relations. It critically examines the historical-transition thesis, which is sometimes employed to argue that new mortuary practices emerged because the nuclear-family system has replaced the stem-family system and fostered mortuary practices more consistent with the new family system. It begins by first briefly defining key terms and reviewing the historical-transition thesis and its alternative. It then examines the persisting stem-family-based framework of memorial-care allocation among ash scatterers and explores the reconstruction of generational relations from the perspectives of ash scatterers and their descendants. It also analyzes the implications of ash scattering for community relations. Finally, the chapter considers ways in which ash scatterers challenge and reproduce the stem-family principles of allocating memorial assets and obligations. Ash scatterers express new ideologies of self-sufficiency and increased control over their memorial strategies and reformulate generational relations. Yet their adoption of new ideologies does not necessarily result in the complete denial of reciprocity between generations or of the stem-family-based principles of allocating to one child the ceremonial assets and the obligation to care for the family dead.Less
This chapter considers the relationship between ash scattering and family relations. It critically examines the historical-transition thesis, which is sometimes employed to argue that new mortuary practices emerged because the nuclear-family system has replaced the stem-family system and fostered mortuary practices more consistent with the new family system. It begins by first briefly defining key terms and reviewing the historical-transition thesis and its alternative. It then examines the persisting stem-family-based framework of memorial-care allocation among ash scatterers and explores the reconstruction of generational relations from the perspectives of ash scatterers and their descendants. It also analyzes the implications of ash scattering for community relations. Finally, the chapter considers ways in which ash scatterers challenge and reproduce the stem-family principles of allocating memorial assets and obligations. Ash scatterers express new ideologies of self-sufficiency and increased control over their memorial strategies and reformulate generational relations. Yet their adoption of new ideologies does not necessarily result in the complete denial of reciprocity between generations or of the stem-family-based principles of allocating to one child the ceremonial assets and the obligation to care for the family dead.
Misa Izuhara
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422057
- eISBN:
- 9781447301424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422057.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter examines the changing nature and patterns of East Asian practices on family support and reciprocity. It uses the housing dimension to explore the flow of support, but looks beyond the ...
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This chapter examines the changing nature and patterns of East Asian practices on family support and reciprocity. It uses the housing dimension to explore the flow of support, but looks beyond the conventional nuclear family households to include three interrelated generations within families. It identifies changing strategies and practices of family relations to cope with the wider and rapid structural changes taking place in the region. It notes that the analysis of the empirical data is focused on a comparison of two dynamic cities in East Asia — Tokyo and Shanghai.Less
This chapter examines the changing nature and patterns of East Asian practices on family support and reciprocity. It uses the housing dimension to explore the flow of support, but looks beyond the conventional nuclear family households to include three interrelated generations within families. It identifies changing strategies and practices of family relations to cope with the wider and rapid structural changes taking place in the region. It notes that the analysis of the empirical data is focused on a comparison of two dynamic cities in East Asia — Tokyo and Shanghai.
Ruth H. Bloch
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520234055
- eISBN:
- 9780520936478
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234055.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This book investigates the eighteenth-century genesis of what has by now become the traditional ideal of gender and family relations. It also reviews the development through the religious, literary, ...
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This book investigates the eighteenth-century genesis of what has by now become the traditional ideal of gender and family relations. It also reviews the development through the religious, literary, political, and intellectual history of the period. It then locates the thoughts and images associated with the personal domain of gender and family within several broader constellations of the early modern Anglo-American ideas about the moral good. Part 1 of this book lays out the interpretive logic behind the more focused investigations of American history that follow. The chapters in Part 2 are united by their common concern with the eighteenth century as a pivotal moment in the Anglo-American construction of gender. The last part explores how pre-Revolutionary ideas of women and gender played off against the evolving classical republican and liberal political ideologies of the American Revolution. An overview of the chapters included in this book is finally shown.Less
This book investigates the eighteenth-century genesis of what has by now become the traditional ideal of gender and family relations. It also reviews the development through the religious, literary, political, and intellectual history of the period. It then locates the thoughts and images associated with the personal domain of gender and family within several broader constellations of the early modern Anglo-American ideas about the moral good. Part 1 of this book lays out the interpretive logic behind the more focused investigations of American history that follow. The chapters in Part 2 are united by their common concern with the eighteenth century as a pivotal moment in the Anglo-American construction of gender. The last part explores how pre-Revolutionary ideas of women and gender played off against the evolving classical republican and liberal political ideologies of the American Revolution. An overview of the chapters included in this book is finally shown.
Julia Brannen
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781529208566
- eISBN:
- 9781529208610
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529208566.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics
This chapter highlights food as a key lens through which a sociologist may understand family relations in social context. Given that the meaning of food and its material form are subject to variation ...
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This chapter highlights food as a key lens through which a sociologist may understand family relations in social context. Given that the meaning of food and its material form are subject to variation and change across time and place, the concept of ‘social practice’ has been employed in its study. A practice approach engages with the habitual aspects of human behaviour that are not easily open to reflexive engagement. From this perspective, it becomes possible to understand how practices are established and consolidated, and how they change. A practice approach, moreover, engages with the constitutive elements relating to a social domain, for example, cooking, eating meals and washing up, and the sequencing of, and the linkage between, these and other practices. Thus, a focus on food can suggest the ways in which family experiences and practices are reproduced, are in tension, or in the process of change. The chapter then looks at cases and interview extracts which demonstrate some of the methodological benefits of food as a pretext for entry into the field of family lives.Less
This chapter highlights food as a key lens through which a sociologist may understand family relations in social context. Given that the meaning of food and its material form are subject to variation and change across time and place, the concept of ‘social practice’ has been employed in its study. A practice approach engages with the habitual aspects of human behaviour that are not easily open to reflexive engagement. From this perspective, it becomes possible to understand how practices are established and consolidated, and how they change. A practice approach, moreover, engages with the constitutive elements relating to a social domain, for example, cooking, eating meals and washing up, and the sequencing of, and the linkage between, these and other practices. Thus, a focus on food can suggest the ways in which family experiences and practices are reproduced, are in tension, or in the process of change. The chapter then looks at cases and interview extracts which demonstrate some of the methodological benefits of food as a pretext for entry into the field of family lives.
Emir Estrada
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479811519
- eISBN:
- 9781479881079
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479811519.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
Kids at Work is the first book to look at the participation of child street vendors in the United States. The children portrayed in this book are the children of undocumented Latinx immigrants who ...
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Kids at Work is the first book to look at the participation of child street vendors in the United States. The children portrayed in this book are the children of undocumented Latinx immigrants who are relegated to street vending because they lack opportunities to work in the formal sector of the economy. On the streets of Los Angeles, California, the children help their parents prepare and sell ethnic food from México and Central America, such as pozole, pupusas, tamales, champurrado, tacos, and tejuino. Shedding light on the experiences of children in this occupation highlights the complexities and nuances of family relations when children become economic co-contributors. This book captures a preindustrial form of family work life in a postindustrial urban setting where a new form of childhood emerges. Child street vendors experience a childhood period and family work relations that lies in the intersection of two polar views of childhood, which embodies a mutually protective and supportive aspect of the economic relationship between parent and child. This book is primarily based on the point of view of street vending children, and it is complemented with parent interviews and rich ethnographic fieldwork that humanizes their experience.Less
Kids at Work is the first book to look at the participation of child street vendors in the United States. The children portrayed in this book are the children of undocumented Latinx immigrants who are relegated to street vending because they lack opportunities to work in the formal sector of the economy. On the streets of Los Angeles, California, the children help their parents prepare and sell ethnic food from México and Central America, such as pozole, pupusas, tamales, champurrado, tacos, and tejuino. Shedding light on the experiences of children in this occupation highlights the complexities and nuances of family relations when children become economic co-contributors. This book captures a preindustrial form of family work life in a postindustrial urban setting where a new form of childhood emerges. Child street vendors experience a childhood period and family work relations that lies in the intersection of two polar views of childhood, which embodies a mutually protective and supportive aspect of the economic relationship between parent and child. This book is primarily based on the point of view of street vending children, and it is complemented with parent interviews and rich ethnographic fieldwork that humanizes their experience.
