Researching family practices in everyday life: methodological reflections from two studies

The study of the everyday is recognised as central to the understanding of identities, agency and social life. Yet, attempts to research everyday life often fail to capture the complexity of the mundane. This paper draws on findings from two studies: fatherhood across three generations and adult narratives of childhood language brokering to illuminate that complexity. The purpose of bringing these studies together is methodological; in particular, it is to examine how the storied material generated by narrative approaches can contribute to understanding of the everyday practices of family life, practices that are often unacknowledged, hidden or assumed. One study adopted a narrative form of interviewing while the second combined narrative photo-elicitation techniques with narrative accounts. Methodologically, the two studies illustrate that no one method produces ‘objective’, comprehensive knowledge of family practices. Together, however, they produce new insights into family practices around fatherhood, migration and language brokering and how participants ‘do’, ‘display’ and commemorate family. The paper argues that narrative approaches, sometimes alongside visual methods, can assist holistic analyses of family practices from sociocultural, intergenerational and life course perspectives.     

Women’s mental health during pregnancy: A participatory qualitative study

Background/objectives

British public health and academic policy and guidance promotes service user involvement in health care and research, however collaborative research remains underrepresented in literature relating to pregnant women’s mental health. The aim of this participatory research was to explore mothers’ and professionals’ perspectives on the factors that influence pregnant women’s mental health.

高校图书馆采访工作之我见

本文阐述了高校图书馆采访工作的现状 ,并对提高高校图书馆采访工作质量提出了建议。     

Characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys – An analysis of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP

Summary: Panel data offers a unique opportunity to identify data that interviewers clearly faked by comparing data waves. In the German Socio–Economic Panel (SOEP), only 0.5 percent of all records of raw data have been detected as faked. These fakes are used here to analyze the potential impact of fakes on survey results. Due to our central finding the faked records have no impact on the mean or the proportions. However, we show that there may be a serious bias in the estimation of correlations and regression coefficients. In all but one year (1998), the detected faked data have never been disseminated within the widely–used SOEP study. The fakes are removed prior to data release.* We are grateful to participants in the workshop on Item Nonresponse and Data Quality on Large Social Surveys for useful critique and comments, especially Rainer Schnell and our outstanding discussant Regina Riphahn. The usual disclaimer applies.     

Developing a Brief Suicide Prevention Intervention and Mobile Phone Application: A Qualitative Report

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth and has become a serious public health problem. There has been limited research on strategies to decrease the likelihood of reattempt in adolescents. As phase one of a treatment development study, clinicians, parents, and adolescents participated in qualitative interviews in order to gain new perspectives on developing a targeted intervention and a safety plan phone application for suicide prevention. Participants indicated that transition of care, specific treatment targets, and safety planning were important parts of treatment. In addition, all participants endorsed the use of a smartphone application for these purposes.     

Envisioning emerging nanotechnologies: a three-year panel study of South Carolina citizens

This article reports results from a three-year panel study of a nonrandom sample of 76 South Carolina citizens, recruited from a variety of walks of life, and their impressions of emerging nanotechnology. This discussion focuses on material from depth interviews conducted alongside a baseline opinion and awareness inventory at the beginning of the study, the most intensive data-gathering phase. These results are placed in the context of data from three additional surveys conducted at about equal intervals over the three years, plus exit interviews from 21 of the 34 individuals who completed the entire study. The results give insight into popular thinking about technology but little indication of strong emerging concerns, a trajectory of amplification of those concerns, or opinion polarization over time, despite some awareness of risks and potential ethical dimensions. Nanotechnology may stand out more as an example of risk attenuation than of risk amplification, consistent with most results from national surveys.     

电视访谈中介入标记语的人际功能

系统功能语言学中的评价理论对说话人表达和协商特定的主体间关系以及意识形态的话语资源进行了归纳,旨在评价语言使用者如何运用话语资源表达赋值语义,解释语言如何用来评估、表示、构建语篇角色及调节人际关系.以评价理论中的介入次系统为出发点,结合巴赫金多声性观点以及语境,可以从主体间定位的角度审视在介入系统视角下,电视访谈这一语类中介入标记作为一种元话语的运作情况和人际功能.主持人面对不同的受访者和观众群,在访谈中通常采取不同的话语策略,利用介入标记进行意义协商.评价是话语人际意义的实现方式.介入标记语所体现的人际意义在交互中生成并受语境的制约,有助于协调主持人、受访人和电视观众之间的互动,促使访谈的成功.     

从匠艺到艺术——中国早期照相馆人像与肖像画的融合

摄影术传入中国后,对画像行业造成冲击,一些画师改业从事照相馆人像拍摄,把绘画中的人物造型法则运用到人像摄影中,从当时留存至今的“小照”、“肖像”中可以看出他们深受中国传统肖像画形式的影响,在某种程度上还反映了当时的社会生活和中国人的审美趣味和艺术传统。清宫流传至今的慈禧着色放大照片是早期中国人像摄影的珍品,而勋龄所拍摄的慈禧扮观音的化妆照可视为按照一定的构思进行摄影创作的先驱,它与西方同时期盛行的高艺术摄影有异曲同工之妙,但又体现了中国人不同于西方的精神境界和宗教信仰,有着浓厚的中国传统文化色彩。