Towards a Postpatriarchal Family

1998 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Patricia S. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Familial Relations ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

Ours is a time of dramatic and confusing transformations in everyday life, many of them originating in the social enfranchisement of women that has occurred over the past twenty-five years. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild demonstrates a widespread phenomenon of work-family imbalance in our society, experienced by people in terms of a time bind, and a devaluation of familial relationships. As large numbers of women have moved into the workplace, familial relations of all sorts have been colonized by what Virginia Held critically refers to as the contractual paradigm. Even the mother/child relationship, representing for Held an alternative feminist paradigm of selfhood and agency, has been in large part "outsourced." I believe that an Arendtian conception of speech and action might enable us to assert anew the grounds for familial relations. If we require a new site upon which to address our human plurality and natality, the postpatriarchal family may provide that new site upon which individuals can freely act to recreate the fabric of human relationships. It would seem to be our moral and political responsibility as social philosophers today to speculatively contribute to the difficult yet imperative task of reconfiguring the family. In this paper, I attempt to articulate the basic assumptions from which such a reconfiguration must begin.

The Role of the Family in Preventing the Transformation of Western Youngsters into Jihadi Fighters

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 157-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Barna
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
General Context ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

AbstractThe mother–child relationship is essential in the development of a healthy child, who can grow up trusting his/her own perceptions and understanding of the social environment. Teenagers naturally experience a period of transition in search of their own identity as individuals, thus being really exposed and vulnerable to being recruited by jihadists. In this particular stage of development, the teenager tries to free himself/herself from the tutorship of the family and looks to experience something new outside the family frame. One of the defining characteristics of this stage is a tendency to take things to an extreme and to see things in black and white, while emotions are experienced as very intense, overwhelming and sometimes difficult to control. Teenagers are easy to impress, convince and manipulate, especially by their social milieu outside the family of origin. In the cases when the relationship with the family of origin becomes tensed – whether the child has been neglected or spoiled during childhood, or when there are tensions between parents or the family is conflicting – the teenager looks for validation outside the family environment. Any opportunity to do something out of the ordinary and apparently easy to accomplish might seem attractive for this category of individuals, especially for those that do not enjoy family support. The illusion of becoming famous or the attraction of glamour might seem desirable at this age. This is one of the main reasons why Jihad has had such a significant impact on Western converts to Islam. Therefore, the aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the case of Boicea Luigi Constantin (Umar al Rumaani), a Romanian that adhered to the extremist ideology of the Islamic State, who does not come from a Muslim family, yet underwent a fast self-radicalization process. In order to better understand Boicea’s case, we will try to present the result of the investigation conducted on the family environment, his interests manifested at an early age, and the tragic events that contributed to his radicalization; in other words, we will try to present the general context in which self-radicalization occurred.

scholarly journals An exploratory study of the ways in which mothers keep their infants occupied

Curationis ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Botha ◽  
G. Cleaver
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
First Year ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Infant Research ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

The mother child relationship can help or hinder the social, emotional and intellectual development of the infant. Research has shown that the interaction between mother and child can affect the child’s cognitive development. Research has shown that mothers from the lower socio-economic groups do not stimulate their babies optimally and that this may affect the children negatively. In this study 86 underprivileged mothers from two different cultural backgrounds were asked to describe the ways in which they kept their infants occupied during the first year of their infants’ lives. The differences between the two groups are discussed and recommendations are made.

Influences on Sibling Relations in Families with Married and Divorced Parents

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-477
Author(s):  
CAROL E. MacKINNON
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Sibling Relations ◽  
Family Form ◽  
Sibling Interaction ◽  
Sibling Interactions ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

Two regression analyses were performed that tested the relationships between the amount of negative sibling interaction and the amount of positive sibling interaction and measures of relationship quality and family form. When measures of husband-wife, mother-child, and father-child relationship quality were controlled, marital status was not significantly related to either measure of sibling interactions. However, when the marital status of the parents (family form) was controlled, both the quality of husband-wife relationship and the quality of mother-child relationship were positively related to positive sibling interaction and negatively related to negative sibling interaction. Regardless of family form, the quality of other relationships in the family were important predictors of sibling interactions.

scholarly journals The Consequences of Gender in Homogamic Couples

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Static Approach ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Interpretative Approach

In studies which analyse the social distance between spouses at the moment a couple is formed, and which attempt to understand the role of the family, and in particular of marriage, in crystallising social divisions, the concept of homogamy has often been purely descriptive. This article questions this static approach and seeks to pinpoint the changes which social homogamy undergoes in the course of conjugal life, addressing women’s decisions on work–family articulation. Drawing on a critical approach to the concept of rational choice, the article intends to demonstrate the merit of an interpretative approach by analysing how members of a sample of 27 university-educated Portuguese partnered mothers take their decisions in the context of an interdependency framework in which the dynamics of family interaction tend to thwart individual career path development, rendering spouses dependent on each other.

scholarly journals The Postpartum Tradition of Sawa Mahina in Rural Punjab, Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azher Hameed Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Infant Health ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe Punjabi postpartum tradition is called sawa mahina (‘five weeks’). This study investigates infant health care belief practices in rural Punjab and looks at the social significance of infant care beliefs practiced during sawa mahina. During six months of fieldwork, using participant observation and unstructured interviews as primary research methods, the study explored the prevalent postpartum tradition from a childcare perspective. A Punjabi child holds a social value regarding familial, religious, and emotional values. The five-week traditional postpartum period provides an insight into mother-child attachment, related child care belief practices, and the social construction of infancy. A child’s agency is recognised in the embodied mother-child relationship, and a child is seen in a sympathetic connection with the mother. Establishing an early foundation of ascribed identities is another important part of postpartum belief practices.

scholarly journals Relasi Ibu-Anak dan Kematangan Emosi Remaja Yatim Duafa

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Rizky Hasanah ◽  
Efi Fitriana ◽  
Marisa Fransiska Moeliono
Keyword(s):  
Target Population ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Maladjustment ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Family Relation ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Correlational Method ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

This study aims to examine association between the mother-child relationship with the emotional maturity of orphan adolescents, using correlational method. Mother-child relationship was measured by the family relation test which consist of 67 items and emotional maturity was measured by the Singh’ emotional maturity scale which contains 47 items. The target population of the study was poor orphans aged between 15 and 18 years who live in Cileunyi Bandung. The number of sample was 30 people who were selected by cluster random sampling. Multiple regression is used to test the research hypothesis. The results showed that the mother-child relationship is significantly correlated with emotional maturity at moderate levels. Specifically the mother-child relationship is significantly related to the dimensions of emotional instability and lack of independence but not related to the other three dimensions of emotional maturity (emotional regression, social maladjustment, personality disintegration).

The brain as an organ of the person

2017 ◽  
pp. 173-208
Author(s):  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
First Year ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Resonance System ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intentional Agents ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Brain

‘The brain as an organ of the person’ examines the socially and culturally scaffolded development of the human brain, especially in early childhood. Beginning with early intersubjectivity and intercorporeality in the mother–child relationship, it first focuses on interactive forms of implicit memory. As a neurological basis of this development, the attachment system and the social resonance system (‘mirror neurons’) are discussed. Secondary intersubjectivity manifests itself towards the end of the first year of life, among others, in the development of joint attention. Understanding others as intentional agents lays the foundation for later perspective-taking and thus for the ‘eccentric position’ of human beings. On this basis, language acquisition is examined as the anchoring of an embodied interpersonal practice, connected with the biological resonance system of mirror neurons.

Musical Practice and Memory on the Edge of Two Worlds: Kalymnian Tsambouna and Song Repertoire in the Family of Nikitas Tsimouris 1

2018 ◽  
pp. 216-262
Author(s):  
Anna Lomax Wood
Keyword(s):  
Song Repertoire ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
Fictive Kinship ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Musical Genres

Over a century ago, hundreds of sponge fishermen and their families settled in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Their large numbers combined with continuing immigration to create a community that has preserved much of its culture. Anna Lomax Chairetakis Wood recorded the music of Kalymnian tsambouna player and National Heritage Fellow NikitasTsimouris and his family, with whom she shared bonds of friendship and fictive kinship. "Musical Practice and Memory on the Edge of Two Worlds: Kalymnian Tsambouna and Song Repertoire in the Family of Nikitas Tsimouris,” is a sensitive and carefully delineated contextual exploration of the social, lyrical, and ethnomusical dimensions of an increasingly rare musical tradition. The author covers such diverse topics as transmission and performance practice; singing styles; song function; repertoire; Kalymnian musical genres such as table songs, poetic duels (pismatika), dance songs, task songs, and ritual songs.

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