Remnant "Family": the role of women in the media discourse on families
Titelübersetzung:La famille rémanente: le rôle des femmes dans le discours des médias sur les familles
Autor/in:
Tank, Jennifer; Prinzing, Marlis
Quelle: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 7 (2014) 2, S 95-117
Inhalt: How does gender affect discourse processes, particularly regarding the coverage of family issues? In order to explore this question, we focus on media representations of women in their roles as mothers on the one hand and journalists on the other and we compare the reporting of male and female journalists covering families. We refer to gender theory to examine processes of gender construction by different actors in the media and we draw on journalism theory to explain different reporting styles and strategies by male and female authors regarding discourse strategies, framing, and gender-stereotyping. Our methodological approaches include quantitative and qualitative content analyses and 14 semi-structured interviews with journalists, family researchers, and lobbyists. The sample includes coverage of families in general and that of large families in particular in German print media in the years 2011 and 2012, for a total of 1,100 texts. One of the key findings, not surprisingly, is that most of the journalists reporting on families are female. Similar to male journalists, however, they focus on the traditional family type despite the fact that various alternative forms of family life are now a social reality.
Intergenerational transmissions in transnational families and national affiliations
Autor/in:
Delcroix, Catherine; Lagier, Elsa
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 25-38
Inhalt: "This article explains and illustrates the method of family histories, reconstructed from crossed biographical interviews of different members of the same family. This methodology allows for the collection of fine and precious data in order to try to understand the complexity of the dynamics of intergenerational transmissions and the construction of national affiliations of immigrants' descendants. It shows how continuously shifting family relationships underlie creativity in parenting strategies. In addition, this approach can circumvent some specific barriers to the study of immigrant families, who often speak uneasily with researchers. This methodology helps us to avoid reification of static identities." (author's abstract)
Intergenerational transmission of trajectories of suffering in precarious environments: researching the younger generations' strategies of reinterpretation
Autor/in:
Chaieb, Sarra; Schwarz, Christoph H.
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 57-77
Inhalt: "This article discusses some pivotal questions regarding processes of the intergenerational transmission of trajectories of suffering in precarious places: to what extent can such processes provide resources that foster agency, and to what extent do they rather constitute barriers to living one's own life? How much do intergenerational relations allow for certain reinterpretations while discouraging or inhibiting others? Which reinterpretations of the older generations' experiences appear legitimate in certain contexts, and which are rebuked by one's social environment? In order to pursue these questions we present analyses of two very different cases that are based on two forms of data material - the life story of Emma, a woman in her 50s, and ethno-analytic group interviews with adolescents aged 14 to 20. Both cases are embedded in very different regional and political contexts: the former, in the French system of fostering institutions, and the latter a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Both constitute, however, cases of intergenerational transmission of trajectories of suffering. One objective of this article is to illustrate how the contrasting of such cases across different kinds of data and contexts can be heuristically useful for methodologically gauging the spectrum of the ubiquitous and sometimes paradoxical phenomena of intergenerational transmission, in order to further develop its conceptualization." (author's abstract)
Experiences of migration as a space for reflection: renegotiating gender roles in family relationships
Autor/in:
Dudt, Muriel; Kempf, Andreas Oskar; Satola, Agnieszka
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 97-113
Inhalt: "Based on biographical narrative interviews with three migrant women, the article discusses how migration experiences can lead to a reflection of gender roles. In the three cases, there are various motivations for migration, different family arrangements and work experiences throughout the migration process, and also a change of roles of the women within their families. For the interview partners, the access to material resources achieved partly under great sacrifice and the possibility to compare different life contexts and gender regimes triggered an ambivalent process of reflection on gender relations. Their reorganization of gender relations can be rather incomplete or require strong legitimization upon return; it can also be transmitted as a project for the next generation to complete." (author's abstract)
Three women in a city: crossing borders and negotiating national belonging
Autor/in:
Pape, Elise; Takeda, Ayumi; Guhlich, Anna
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 39-56
Inhalt: "The major theoretical literature has considered the concept of nation primarily from a macro level. This article explores the question of national belonging departing from an individual's point of view, more precisely from the life story of three migrant women. Migration and transnational practices have challenged the perception of the homogeneity of nations, questioning the idea of fixed boundaries, and showing how different national and social forms of belonging may develop simultaneously through migration experience. Drawing on biographical interviews conducted with three migrant women, Amina El Asri, Gule Yildiz and Zuzana Svitá, the present analysis focusses on the construction of national belonging of the women in an intersectional perspective. Mrs. El Asri, Mrs. Yildiz and Mrs. Svitá originate from different countries (respectively Morocco, Turkey and Czechia). They have different social origins and ages, but share the same sex, their residence in the same city in West Germany and the fact that they all have children. The analysis reveals the profound impact of the socio-historical contexts the women come from on their construction of national belonging, but also of age and of transmission processes to their children. It is mainly through passing on their mother tongue and reshaping their conception of national belonging over time that the women manage to establish strong ties to their children, and contribute, by articulating different lines of belonging, to the redefinition of (trans)nation building processes." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Migration; migration; Migrant; migrant; woman; Nation; nation; nationale Identität; national identity; Identitätsbildung; identity formation; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; group membership; gender-specific factors; Intersektionalität; intersectionality; Familie; family; Generation; generation; soziale Herkunft; social background; Bindung; commitment; Federal Republic of Germany; Biographie; biography; biographische Methode; biographical method
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Migration
Einleitung zum Plenum Vervielfältigung der Familien- und Geschlechterarrangements? : Theoretische und methodische Herausforderungen
Autor/in:
Eifler, Stefanie; Kahlert, Heike; Stauder, Johannes
Quelle: Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt: Teilbd. 1, Verhandlungen des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum und Dortmund 2012. Martina Löw. Deutscher Soziologentag "Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt"; Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verl., 2014, S. 477-478
Identität und Identitätsveränderungen von Akademikerinnen im sozialen Wandel : eine Vergleichsstudie von in den 50er mit in den 70er Jahren geborenen Akademikerinnen
Titelübersetzung:Identity and changes in the identity of female academics during social change : a comparative study of female academics born between the 1950s and the 1970s
Autor/in:
Hebel, Brigitte
Quelle: Flensburg, 2014. 137 S.
Inhalt: "Akademikerinnen in Deutschland heiraten immer seltener und bekommen weniger Kinder. Ist diese Entwicklung auch eine Folge von Identitätsveränderungen, die zurückzuführen sind auf die gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen, die in der 2. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland stattfanden? Basierend auf einer Darstellung dieser gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen für das Leben von Frauen, vor allem in den Bereichen 'Bildung und Ausbildung', 'Beruf und Karriere', 'Partnerschaft und Ehe' sowie 'Kinder und Familie', wurde auf der Basis des 'Flensburger Identity Status Interview, FISI' ein Interview entwickelt, um die Identität von Frauen in diesen Bereichen zu erforschen. Die vorliegende Studie beinhaltet 40 Interviews: 20 Probandinnen mit akademischer Ausbildung, die im Zeitraum von 1950-1959 und 20 Probandinnen, die im Zeitraum von 1970-1979 geboren sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen ein unterschiedliches Bild: In dem Bereich 'Bildung und Ausbildung' hat sich hinsichtlich der Identität der Frauen nur wenig verändert. In dem Bereich 'Beruf und Karriere' gibt es zwar Veränderungen entsprechend den Entwicklungen in der Gesellschaft, diese sind aber nicht in einer statistisch signifikanten Größenordnung. Auffallend ist die hohe Gemeinsamkeit hinsichtlich der geringen Bedeutung des Karriereaspekts. In dem Bereich 'Partnerschaft und Ehe' wurde ebenfalls vor allem eine hohe Übereinstimmung gefunden. Hier blieben die erwarteten Unterschiede aus. Im Gegenteil: Stabile Partnerschaften scheinen für die jüngeren Frauen eine zusätzliche Bedeutung gewonnen zu haben, als absolut notwendige Voraussetzung für die Entscheidung zur Familiengründung. So sind ausschließlich im Bereich 'Kinder und Familie' die Unterschiede in der Identität zwischen den beiden Probandinnengruppen sehr deutlich. Kinder sind bei den jüngeren Frauen sehr wünschenswert, aber eine innere Verpflichtung ist eindeutig geringer ausgeprägt als bei der älteren Frauengruppe. Auch die subjektive Bedeutsamkeit hat abgenommen. In diesem Bereich hat sich die Identität also analog zu den Veränderungen in der Gesellschaft geändert." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "In Germany academicly trained women are less likely to marry and have less children. Is this developemant also a consequence of changes in identity that reflect the changes in society which occured in the 2nd part of the 20th century in the Federal Republic of Germany? In order to explore these changes in society regarding the lives of women, particularly in the areas of 'education and training', 'occupation and carreer', 'relationship and marriage' as well as 'children and family' an interview protocol was developed. These interviews were designed to further explore the identity of women in these areas. The conducted study contains interviews with samples of 40 women with academic training. Of these 40 women, 20 women were born in the time between 1950-1959 and 20 women were born between 1970-1979. The results show different results in each area: In the area of 'education and training' the differences in identity which were found are very small or non-existent. In the area of 'occupation and carreer' some changes which are in correspondence to the changes in society were found but not sufficiently high enough for a statistic significance. Noticeable is the common ground concerning the low importance of becoming a carreerist. In the area of 'relationship and marriage' the found common ground was also mostly impressive. The expected differences didn`t occur. Quite the opposite: solid relationships seem to have gained an added significance for the younger women. An added significance as an absolute necessary condition for deciding to have children. Therefore only in this area significant changes in the identity of the two groups of women could be found. Children are a desirable option for the younger women but they are not as commited and the subjective meaningfulness is not as high as it is for the older women. In this area changes in identity were found and are in correspondence to the changes in society." (author's abstract)