Relational Discourses

O’Connor, Pat; Haynes, Amanda; Kane, And Ciara

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“…Hence, the verbal part of the interviews turned out to be of substantial importance. Moreover, the frequent inclusion of a pet in children's accounts of their family members points out the importance of pets as ‘significant others’ in children's depiction of kin (Morrow, ,b; O'Connor and others, ; Tipper, ). Furthermore, our data show that the contours of one's family often are not easy to identify, and the synopsis of children's and parents' interviews illustrates that family construction can be different for every single family ‘member’ (Carroll and others, ; Rigg and Pryor, ; Zartler, 2011).…”

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My Family through the Lens. Photo Interviews with Children and Sensitive Aspects of Family Life

Zartler

Richter

2012

Children & Society

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We elaborate on an aspect of photo interviews with children that has so far not been considered sufficiently: Photographs may encourage children to talk about sensitive aspects of family life. The potential and limitations of this aspect are discussed along the lines of visibility and invisibility. Visualisations support children in verbalising their thoughts, but also stimulate narrations on issues that are not displayed. Data are drawn from interviews with fifty 10‐year‐old children who took photographs in their families, and their parents (n = 71). We conclude that visual methods and their combination with a multiple perspectives approach may generate substantial benefits in childhood and family research.

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My Family through the Lens. Photo Interviews with Children and Sensitive Aspects of Family Life

Zartler

Richter

2012

Children & Society

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Gendered family lives through the eyes of young people: diversity, permanence and change of gender representations in Portugal

Guerreiro

Caetano

Rodrigues

2014

Gender and Education

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Globalization, Individualization and Gender in Adolescents’ Texts

O’Connor

2006

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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IntroductionGlobalization has been variously defined, sometimes including a cultural, political, and/or economic element and frequently linked with the dominance of consumer culture and a focus on global media products. However, it has also been widely noted that this focus on transnational processes and technologies underestimates variation in the meaning and assimilation of global products and symbols within particular local cultural contexts (Bennett, 2000;Paulgaard, 2002). The methodological purpose of this article is to illustrate the way in which globalization can be explored in young people's written texts and other visual data. In addition, it highlights the difficulties of looking at individualization in such texts, and in particular differentiating between it and the persistence of stereotypical ways of 'doing boy/girl'.A number of theorists (such as Beck, 1992Beck, , 1994 Beck & Beck-Gernsheim, 2002;Giddens, 1991) have suggested that young people's experiences can best be explored in the context of a theory of individualization. Thus, rather than identity being expressed in terms of structural categories (such as age or class position), the focus is on individual choice and on 'becoming' in a context where information and knowledge are being rapidly absorbed and revised. In this reflexive context, Giddens (1991, p. 217) suggested that: 'What gender identity is, and how it is expressed, has become itself a matter of multiple options'. However, although gender is seen as 'part of a collective moulding of individual behaviour' that has been rendered obsolete, it is not consistently referred to as an outdated category (Beck & Beck-Gernsheim, 2002, pp. xxiv and 203, respectively). Thus, conceptually as well as methodologically, there are difficulties in differentiating between individualization and stereotypical ways of 'doing boy/girl'.The texts that are the focus of this article were part of a wider sample of texts written in a school context by those in Fifth Class in First Level (typically aged 10-12 years) and those in Transition Year in Second Level (typically aged 14-17 years) in response to an invitation, to 'tell their life stories', to write a page 'describing themselves and the Ireland that they inhabit' so as to 'to provide a national data base' 'an invaluable archive'. Thus, they can be seen as similar to solicited diaries (Bell, 1998) or externally required texts (Stanley, 2000). In addition to these main texts, the young people were given the option of using the reverse side of the sheet creatively for drawings, poems, songs, lyrics, or anything else that they wished to include. The latter type of data has begun to be seen as a way of stepping outside a particular verbal culture (Prosser, 1998) and providing insights into young people's concepts of health (Wetton & McWhirter, 1998); family (O'Brien, Alldred, & Jones, 1996); examinations (Leonard, 2003) and self image (Wakefield & Underwager, 1998). It has been argued that the difficulties posed by such material are not necessarily much grea...

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Relational Discourses

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

My Family through the Lens. Photo Interviews with Children and Sensitive Aspects of Family Life

My Family through the Lens. Photo Interviews with Children and Sensitive Aspects of Family Life

Gendered family lives through the eyes of young people: diversity, permanence and change of gender representations in Portugal

Globalization, Individualization and Gender in Adolescents’ Texts

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