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In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 176-177
ISSN: 1469-8684
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In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 176-177
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 327-328
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Child & family social work, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 329-337
ISSN: 1365-2206
AbstractSecure children's homes are used to accommodate children aged 10–16 under two main categories; while half are sentenced after committing a serious offence, the other half are placed because there are serious concerns around their safety in the community. Secure children's homes are prized within the secure estate, and they administer complex therapeutic support to 'the most vulnerable' young people, however little is known about the experiences of those employed to work in such spaces. This paper shares findings from PhD research conducted in one secure children's home over 1 year. Data presented are drawn from sensitive ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews with residential staff and residents in the home. Although young people's views are important, we concentrate here on the perspectives of residential staff to share their reflections of delivering 'care' and the strategies used to manage successful relationships within a secure setting. We conclude that residential staff tread a fine line between creating emotional closeness while maintaining physical distance and that they are sometimes unable to return the intensity of feeling that residents' direct towards them. We recommend that all residential staff receive regular and detailed supervision to provide opportunity to request support when necessary.
In: The sociological review, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 754-772
ISSN: 1467-954X
Drawing on an ESRC funded study of children's experiences of hospital space this article explores the cultural politics of contemporary English childhood. Using the words and commentaries provided by both children and young people, the article argues that although, as patients, children and young people share the same hospital spaces, their experiences of them are quite different. Through mundane material and symbolic practices, a number of experiential continuities are created for the youngest children between life in hospital and life at home, continuities that work to downplay their identities as children who are sick. For young people, however, these practices are more problematic since the discourses of childhood that are recreated have little resonance with young people's own experiences and sense of self and identity. Thus this article provides evidence of the need for a more nuanced understanding of not only young people's needs in relation to hospital services, but also of the significance of understanding the ways in which particular constructions of 'the child' and 'childhood' are threaded through public discourses and come to be realized in institutional settings.
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 44, Heft 6, S. 1163-1180
ISSN: 1469-8684
In this article we explore how Finch's (2007) concept of display might illuminate the new sociology of personal life as set out by Smart (2007). Drawing on narratives of family life and eating practices, from both parents and children, the article considers how these work as tools of family display. For some families, displays are used to affirm an idiosyncratic sense of their family through drawing on particular cultural motifs of 'family'. For other families, practices of display work to smooth over challenges from within. Displays can also be more normative, confirming wider hegemonic models of what the family is. Thus, while displays — and therefore ideas of family — do take different forms, nonetheless they also demonstrate that, as Smart suggests, people's personal lives need always to be understood as embedded in particular social and cultural worlds, rather than a function of lone, autonomous individuals.
In: Families, relationships and societies: an international journal of research and debate, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 213-229
ISSN: 2046-7443
A close father–child relationship is a potent cultural ideal in Western, post-industrial societies. This article poses physical activity as a practice through which fathers display intimacy in their relationships with their children. Utilising the premise of family display, it reveals the conduct of contemporary fathers to be suffused with meaning from the social convention that intimate fathers are 'good fathers'. It argues that intimate fatherhood represents a discourse, serving to shape what fathers do and how they and their children display and give meaning to fathering practices.
In: Children and Citizenship, S. 85-96