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Sociological Understanding (sociological + understanding)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	75%

Selected Abstracts

David Martin, Christian Language and its Mutations: Essays in Sociological Understanding

CONVERSATIONS IN RELIGION & THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2004
Article first published online: 4 MAY 200
David Martin, Christian Language and its Mutations: Essays in Sociological Understanding Reviewed by Ian Markham [source]

Progress, Public Health, and Power: Foucault and the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan,

CANADIAN REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY/REVUE CANADIENNE DE SOCIOLOGIE, Issue 3 2008
SCOTT McLEAN
De 1911 à 1979, les Homemakers' Clubs de la Saskatchewan ont mobilisé et suivi une étude et une action à grande échelle dans le domaine de la santé publique. Cet article examine comment ces clubs ont poussé des femmes à lutter pour avancer et les ont encouragées à considérer de telles luttes comme étant fondamentales pour bâtir leur propre identité. Les techniques utilisées comprenaient des encouragements à partager des buts, à faire leurs de tels buts, à structurer leur démarche, à rendre compte de leurs pensées et de leurs actions, à récompenser certaines conduites et à lier ces dernières à des causes convaincantes sur le plan émotif. En s'insérant dans un cadre conceptuel foucaldien, cet article apporte une contribution à la compréhension sociologique de la gouvernance et de la formation du sujet. From 1911 to 1979, the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan mobilized and monitored extensive study and action in the field of public health. This article explores how these clubs exhorted women to strive for progress, and encouraged women to internalize such striving as fundamental to their own identities. The techniques used included encouraging commitment to shared goals, making such goals personal, structuring action, requiring women to report their thoughts and actions, rewarding certain behaviors, and linking those behaviors with emotionally compelling causes. Rooted in a Foucauldian conceptual framework, this article contributes to the sociological understanding of subject formation and governance. [source]

Thinking ,taller': sharing responsibility in the everyday lives of children with asthma

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 13-14 2010
Angela Meah
Aims., To explore negotiation of responsibilities for asthma self-care between a group of preadolescent children aged 7,12 and their parents/carers and to explore the meaning of responsibility to these children and their adult carers. Background., Living with asthma requires the distribution of a range of responsibilities between children and their adult carers, highlighting tensions between protection and promotion of autonomy. Previous studies have identified diverse factors associated with transfer of responsibility but a better understanding is required of the meaning of responsibility in children's lives and how parents and children negotiate responsibilities. Design., The design was qualitative. Methods., Eighteen child participants aged 7,12 years and their parents/carers participated in open-ended, conversational-style interviews. The framework approach was used to analyse the data and interpretation of data drew upon both feminist epistemology and sociological understandings of children, health and the body which relocate subjective experience at the heart of scientific enquiry. Results., Children demonstrated responsibility by avoiding asthma exacerbators and limiting the effect of asthma on themselves and their parents but there were limitations on children's opportunities to exercise some responsibilities. Conclusions., It is possible to consider responsibility as the exercise of agency by children rather than simply as compliance with adults' instructions and prescriptions. Relevance to clinical practice., Some parents would like more assistance from health professionals in managing the process of increasing independent self-care by children. It is important to maintenance of the health of children with long-term conditions that the distribution of responsibilities between adults and children both ensures children's safety and provides appropriate preparation for independence in adult life. Understanding the process by which parents and children negotiate distribution of responsibilities for long-term conditions could provide a basis for development of interventions to respond to parents' requests for more professional support for managing this process. [source]