Lifetime Family Research Articles

Datafied times: Surveillance capitalism, data technologies and the social construction of time in family life

This article maps three different yet interconnected hegemonic temporalities that define data technologies: immediacy, archival and predictive time. These hegemonic temporalities, it will be argued, cannot be understood without considering the political economic structures of surveillance capitalism. However, to understand the relationship between data technologies and the social construction of time, we also need to consider the multiple ways in which these temporalities are reproduced and experienced through everyday temporalizing practices. Drawing on an ethnographic project which investigates the impact of data technologies on family life, the article will explore different ways in which these temporalities are impacting the lived experience of family life. Looking at the ways in which everyday experiences intersect with hegemonic constructions of time enables us to ask critical questions about how data technologies surveille and govern subjects through time and consider their implication for our democratic futures.

Tools for Reconciling Professional and Personal Roles in Poland. Challenges and Barriers

One of the key challenges faced by today’s workers is to live at an ever-increasing pace, which creates a conflict between professional and private life. This results from the extension and intensification of working time, the need for constant improvement of competences and, as a result, lack of free time for family life or rest. More and more companies are opting for specialised programmes to prevent imbalances between professional and private life (Work-Life Balance – WLB). However, the scope of solutions applied by Polish employers is not systematically examined. Therefore, the article reviews and analyses the applied solutions in the field of reconciliation of professional and personal life (including family life) in enterprises operating in Poland, as well as barriers and challenges of their implementation. Identified challenges of financial, legislative, organisational and cultural character limit the practical use of such mechanisms.

On Generalized Moment Exponential Distribution and Power Series Distribution

In this research paper, a new life time family is introduced. Sadaf [1] proposed a moment exponential power series (MEPS) distribution. Generalized moment exponential power series (GMEPS) distribution is a general form of MEPS distribution. It is characterized by compounding GME distribution and power series (PS) distribution. This new family has some new sub models such as GME geometric distribution, GME Poisson (GMEP) distribution, GME logarithmic (GMEL) distribution and GME binomial (GMEB) distribution. We provide statistical properties of GMEPS family of distributions. We find here expression of quantile function based on Lambert W function, the density function of rth order statistic and moments of GMEPS distribution. Descriptive expressions of Shannon entropy and Rényi entropy of new general model are found. We provide special sub-models of the GMEPS family of distributions. The maximum likelihood (ML) estimation method is used to find estimates of the parameters of GMEPS distribution. Simulation study is carried out to check the convergence of new estimators. We apply GMEPS family of distributions on two sets of real data.

Closing AmericaaS Enormous Fiscal Gap: Who Will Pay?

The US government has spent decades taxing current generations while also writing them huge IOUs for future benefits. This paper models the effect on everyday Americans of closing the true $210 trillion fiscal gap with an immediate and permanent 57 percent increase in all federal taxes or with a delayed increase of 69 percent. We examine the impact either method of smoothly closing the fiscal gap would have on five stylized households in three different cohorts. Raising the federal tax rate on all households, at all age and resource levels, increases each family's lifetime tax rate and decreases lifetime spending. The results show that delaying the tax increase lowers the burden on those now alive, particularly the elderly. Meanwhile, the burden on those left to pick up the tab grows larger with each passing year of congressional and presidential inaction.

Adaptation of a Voice-Centered Relational Framework to Explore the Perspective of Parents Who Have Transitioned to Home with a Child With Complex Care Needs

ABSTRACTParents of children with complex care needs are generally willing to participate in research studies about their experiences; however, they are often challenged in their capacity to participate as they struggle to find time for family life. In our research with parents to explore their experience of transitioning to home, we deliberately sought an approach that would reduce the imposition on parents, while gaining insightful interpretations of their experiences. This article reflects on our experience of the process of discovering, analyzing, and interpreting parents’ perspectives of their journey to home, when interviewed by telephone. Applying the voice-centered relational method of qualitative analysis, accounts from parents were explored by the research team using 4 perspectives: the plot and evaluator responses to the narrative; the voice of the “I”; relationships; and placing people within cultural contexts and social structures. Parents interviewed were very receptive to being interviewed by phone. We found that this enhanced their trust in the interview process and subsequently led to our ability to gather rich data. The use of multiple lenses of analysis gave insightful interpretations of their journey to home.

Management of postnatal depression in primary care: a window of opportunity

The postnatal period is a particularly distressing time to experience mental health problems. Detection and appropriate treatment of psychiatric symptoms at this critical time in family life is perhaps more important than at any other time. Postnatal depression (PND) affects more than one in 10 women;1,2 it significantly impacts on partners;3 is associated with an impaired mother–infant bond;4 and has been linked to poor cognitive and emotional development in the infant,5 thus contributing to the inter-generational transmission of poor health. Suicide is a leading cause of maternal death in the UK; the largest proportion due to PND and puerperal psychosis,6 and completed suicides are thought to be the tip of the iceberg in terms of ‘near miss’ events. However, many women are reluctant to disclose PND symptoms to healthcare professionals.7 Strategies for identifying PND and supporting women and their families are therefore very important and must be timely, holistic, and appropriate to new mothers. The perinatal period provides many opportunistic occasions within which to identify and manage mild, moderate, and severe mental illness. This is due to the increased level of health professional contact through routine antenatal and postnatal contact, which does not occur in the non-postpartum population. Although GPs are often the first port of call for women8 or their families seeking help during pregnancy and postnatally, all healthcare professionals in contact with pregnant or postpartum women should be alert to possible symptoms, either those of new onset or of a more chronic nature. Given the evidence for the effectiveness of both pharmacological and psychological interventions in improving health outcomes when PND is identified, there is much to be gained from early identification and management in primary care. …

La méthodologie de l'image peut-elle être utile à la recherche en sciences sociales?

Si l'image n'a pas encore toute la place qui devrait lui revenir dans le champ des méthodologies en Sciences Sociales, c'est d'abord parce que son langage utilise un système de signes qui lui est spécifique, distinct de l'oral et de l'écrit. La méthodologie de l'image doit forger ses propres règles de collecte de données audiovisuelles, ses codes d'analyse et d'interprétation, afin de donner un sens sociologique à la " banalité " de ce qui est observé et enregistré. Elle doit aussi se plier aux conditions d'un média audiovisuel pour montrer des résultats de recherche dans un montage cohérent. L'article montre comment la réflexion s'alimente en particulier des apports de la Sémiologie et de ceux de l'Ecole de Palo Alto. Par sa nature épistémologique ce travail pousse la recherche sociologique à interroger ses catégories de collecte de données visuelles, à réajuster ses indicateurs, à préciser les objectifs de ce qu'elle veut transmettre. La méthodologie de l'image est donc utile à la production de connaissances en Sociologie. A partir d'exemples tirés des réalisations de l'auteure, l'article montre comment le corps, l' espace et le temps sont des catégories de la pratique sociale particulièrement adaptées aux approches audiovisuelles. Le corps au "Travail Domestique" ou en "Télétravail", l'espace dans "La gestion ordinaire de la vie en deux", "L'apprentissage du temps", au fondement de la prime socialisation.

A Model of a Complex Family Economy

Model name "simFamily." This program is a model of a complex family economy. It first presents a defined family consisting of three family members (husband, wife, child) and a family pet (dog). The program prompts for different scenarios for this family's life time. After entering the different scenarios, the simu lation will output the family status for each year.