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Feminist writers have drawn attention to the way in which the home can be a source of oppression for women, by the … mothers living in social housing and in receipt of income support in south-west England. The tensions between the home being … home as a place of isolation and generating a sense of captivity. The way lone mothers experience the home can be …
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This article draws on recent research into the architecture of home‐based work, the working practices of the home … could give a voice to contemporary home-based workers across the social spectrum and in a wide variety of occupations …
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everyday life. One women's life story is (re)told; about her childhood, her home and family, and her work in the garden. I … to gain deeper understandings of the uses and meanings of leisure spaces in and around the home. …
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Individualisation theory misrepresents and romanticises the nature of agency as a primarily discursive and reflexive process where people freely create their personal lives in an open social world divorced from tradition. But empirically we find that people usually make decisions about their...
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Contemporary research has shown that families are constituted through everyday practices of intimacy with affinities … part of everyday relational living. Thus, to put personal relationships and families in context, I contend that we need to …
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By using examples from food and domestic life in England during 1950, this paper examines the use of narrative archival sources as a methodological alternative to researching everyday food practices by traditional research methods, such as interviewing. Through the analysis of three diaries...
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Informed consent is a key consideration in ethical research, particularly research conducted with children. Devising an approach to and obtaining informed consent is a complex task involving multiple considerations. The examples used in this paper are derived from a study investigating how...
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This article draws on data from a qualitative study of children living in families with either low or high levels of …
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Understanding discursive shifts over the twentieth century in relation to family roles, paid work and care is essential to any critical review of contemporary family theory and policies. This paper charts aspects of these shifts. An analysis of case records of the Royal Scottish Society for the...
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This paper analyses social interactions between detailed occupational positions as a means of exploring social and occupational inequalities. Two methods are employed: descriptive techniques of social network analysis, and a well-established modelling approach (the 'CAMSIS' method of 'Social...
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