A bride and a mourner live out roles that are specific to an occasion. Yet the achievements of the heart are all the more remarkable within roles that last longer and go deeper. Parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and best friends expect to have more freedom from feeling rules and less need for […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Conclusion: Embarking on New Motherhood
The women I studied doggedly pursued secure employment while seeking out a partner, all the while holding their hopes for motherhood close. But when the search for a partner seemed as though it would block the possibility of motherhood, these women stopped following the rules. Both gay and straight women had to push aside the […]
Congregate Housing
Congregate housing includes a range of living options. The most common form is an apartment complex of older adults that provides a level of support, such as shared meals. Congregate housing is often the least expensive form of supported living for older adults, as the cost is typically subsidized by various government agencies and nonprofit […]
Adult Day Care
In some cases, older adults need more support than is possible with just home modification, but still do not need it on a full-time basis. For them, one possible option may be adult day care. Adult day care is designed to provide support, companionship, and certain services during the day. This situation arises most often […]
Home Modification
The discussion of the competence-environmental press model earlier provided two options for people who experience difficulties dealing with the tasks of daily life. On the one hand, people can increase their competency in order to develop better or new skills for handling the tasks. For example, to remember better where you put your car keys, […]
Language, meaning, text
Weedon maintains that Derrida, like Saussure, claims that meaning in language is a product of relations of difference, whereas Saussure argues for a fixed network of meaning. As Weedon notes (1987:24-25), the ‘post-structuralist answer to the problem of the plurality of meaning and change is to question the location of social meaning in fixed signs. […]
THINKING ABOUT FEELING
We need a sociological way of understanding emotion. The thinking we need is scattered around the social sciences and tucked into various approaches to the links between social structure and emotion." In the first approach (associated with the image of the conscious, cognitive self), the social context and thinking about emotion are linked, but a […]
THINKING ABOUT FEELING
We need a sociological way of understanding emotion. The thinking we need is scattered around the social sciences and tucked into various approaches to the links between social structure and emotion." In the first approach (associated with the image of the conscious, cognitive self), the social context and thinking about emotion are linked, but a […]
Deciding on the Best Option
One of the most difficult decisions individuals and families have to make is where an older member should live. Such decisions are never easy, and can be quite wrenching. Figuring out the optimal “fit” where the individual’s competence and the environmental press are in the best balance rests on the ability of all concerned to […]
THREE IMAGES OF SELF
Much of social science seems to be based on two images of the self, which, like all such images, focus attention on certain aspects of life and away from others. The first image is of the conscious, cognitive self. According to this image, we consciously want something (e. g., money or status) and consciously calculate […]