Friday 13 April 2012 at 09:00 - 10:30 FAMILIES, RELATIONSHIPS,
LIFECOURSE Bailey, T.
What Can Funerals Tell Us about Family and Personal Relationships?
Funerals in contemporary Britain are social and public occasions where notions and practices of 'family', networks, and relationships are particularly strong, but sociology has so far overlooked the funeral as a rich site of social interaction where family and personal relationships are done, displayed, invoked and accomplished. Taking as its starting point that 'family' is not realised in isolation from society, culture, or other (non-family) people, this paper considers how an examination of the funeral can contribute to recent developments in the sociology of families and personal life. The paper will draw on ongoing analysis of qualitative data generated in collaboration with the Mass- Observation Project, a long-running writing project with approximately 500 'correspondents' across the UK. Correspondents offered detailed accounts of recent experiences of attending a funeral, whether as 'family' or otherwise. The paper will examine how correspondents wrote about family and personal life, and will consider in particular the ways in which non-family members – who also hold notions of 'families we live by' – may actively contribute to the doing and 'displaying' of family at the funeral.
Formankova, L. Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University of Brno Private and Working Paths Intersections of Young Czech Women in Managerial Positions
Typical male managerial career model may show linear progression, while female ones tend to have certain distinct features as Lepine (1992) and others argue. This differences arises in part, as a result of the design of the institutional (employment and social policies) and structural factors (labour market relations) that shape women’s labour market position (Lewis, 1992). On the organizational level, women may encounter boundaries such as the 'glass ceiling' processes, informal norms (such as time and mobility constraints) and social and cultural representations attached leadership (Rapoport et al., 2002). Certain individual and household factors also contribute to the women’s career paths, such as the presence of children as well as variations in marital status and educational level (Fagan and Rubery, 1996; Lippe, 2001) same as individual preferences as Hakim (2000) argue.
The research applies the biographic-narrative method of data collection and analysis (Chamberlayne et. al., 2002; Rosenthal, 1993). The biographic approach helps us to account for both the richness and variety of lived experience and its connection to the social structures, contexts and process reflected in life and employment trajectories. It discusses individual features of the career development of four young Czech women working in the managerial positions. During their career pats, they went through diverse career transitions including promotion, downshifting, move to self-employment or periods of joblessness. When focusing on childless women, we do not go around the work-life balance issues. We aim to analyze how the childless women experience their careers and the intersections of their private and professional life.
Slepickova, L., Bartosova, M. Family through Children Eyes: Qualitative Research of Czech Children
Changes in the demographic characteristics of the Czech family in recent decades have resulting in radical changes in the family arrangements. As a result of the frequent breakup of families and the founding of new ones, the roles of the family’s individual members are losing their rigid definitions and being supplanted by various others.
This paper makes use of a new research perspective on children as social actors. Unlike previous practice in research on families, current sociological research on the family centers on children as active agents who are shaped by familial experiences, but also actively co-construct them (Milkie, Simon, Powell 1997). We ask what importance the family has for a child, how he/she defines it, with what relationships and activities the child associates it. We wish to show what position within the framework of the family the child assigns to its individual members and himself and ask what influence the gender of the child, his age, and various family arrangements have on this perception. Does gender have the same influence on the family experience to the same degree as it does in research on adults? Does experience with changes in the family arrangement that are being experienced by a large percentage of Czech children reveal itself in children’s responses? The data are collected within the period 2010-2011 in primary schools. We investigate two age groups of children (8-10; 12-13) and use multiple research techniques, both the classic ones used in research on adults, as well as specific children-friendly techniques.
Masaryk University ROUNDTABLE 4, SPORTS HALL 2 University of Bath
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