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
Wer ist tatsächlich benachteiligt? : Die Wirkung traditioneller Geschlechterrollen auf schulische Leistungen und elterliche Aspirationen in deutschen und türkischen Familien
Titelübersetzung:Who Is Indeed Disadvantaged? : The Effect of Traditional Gender Roles on Educational Achievement and Parental Aspirations in German and Turkish Families
Autor/in:
Salikutluk, Zerrin; Heyne, Stefanie
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 43 (2014) H. 6, S. 421-440
Inhalt: "Traditionelle Geschlechterrollen werden einerseits als Grund für die Benachteiligung von Mädchen gesehen, andererseits wird argumentiert, dass das schlechte Abschneiden von Jungen im Bildungssystem mit traditionellen Männlichkeitsvorstellungen zusammenhänge. Empirische Analysen der Daten aus den Projekten Junge Migranten im deutschen und israelischen Bildungssystem und Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries zeigen, dass türkischstämmige Eltern dann niedrigere Bildungsaspirationen für ihre Töchter haben, wenn die Mütter in der Familie nicht erwerbstätig sind. Normative Einstellungen der Eltern zur geschlechtsspezifischen Arbeitsteilung hängen hingegen nicht mit den Bildungsaspirationen für ihre Kinder zusammen. Bei schulischen Leistungen im Fach Mathematik kristallisiert sich hingegen ein Nachteil für türkischstämmige Jungen heraus, wenn diese traditionelle Einstellungen haben. Für deutsche Eltern und Jugendliche finden sich keine derartigen Zusammenhänge." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "This article investigates the effect of traditional gender roles on gender disparities in school. On the one hand, traditional gender roles are generally taken to put girls at a disadvantage. On the other hand, it is assumed that traditional masculinity norms lead to poorer school performance among boys. Using data from the projects 'Young Immigrants in the German and Israeli Educational System' and 'Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries' we show that although parental attitudes in regard to gender roles do not affect their aspirations for the education of their children parents with a Turkish migrational background do have lower educational aspirations for their daughters if mothers are not participating in the Labor market. Furthermore, boys of Turkish background who have traditional attitudes achieve lower results in mathematics. No such gender difference was found with respect to German parents and students." (author's abstract)
Bildungs- und Berufserfolg im Kontext von Migration, Familie und Geschlecht
Titelübersetzung:Educational and career success in the context of migration, the family and gender
Autor/in:
Kämpfe, Karin; Westphal, Manuela
Quelle: Migration und soziale Arbeit, Jg. 36 (2014) H. 1, S. 59-66
Inhalt: "Aus der internationalen Bildungsforschung können für den Bildungserfolg und -aufstieg von Migrantinnen verschiedene Schlüsselfaktoren als bedeutsame familiäre Ressourcen identifiziert werden. Anhand einer Re-Analyse qualitativer Daten aus einer Studie über erfolgreiche Bildungs- und Berufsverläufe von Migrantinnen sollen im hier vorliegenden Beitrag fördernde respektive protektive Konstellationen im familiären Sozialisationsprozess unter Bedingungen der (Mehrfach-)Benachteiligung aufgezeigt werden." (Autorenreferat)
