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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self And Society in the Late Modern Age
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The American Diabetes Association currently recommends that all youth with type 1 diabetes over the age of 7 years follow a plan of intensive management. The purpose of this study was to describe stressors and self-care challenges reported by adolescents with type 1 diabetes who were undergoing initiation of intensive management. Subjects described initiation of intensive management as complicating the dilemmas they faced. The importance of individualized and nonjudgmental care from parents and health care providers was stressed. This study supports development of health care relationships and environments that are teen focused not merely disease-centered and embrace exploring options with the teen that will enhance positive outcomes.
This chapter offers an introduction to the book by situating the study in the wider debates in sociology and peace and conflict studies and discussing the study’s contributions to the literature. Through sociological research, this book explores motherhood as a social role that buttresses peace processes through the voices of women who have engaged in childrearing during and after the Northern Ireland conflict, euphemistically called ‘the Troubles’. The study draws on narratives collected through life history and focus group interviews conducted in areas that bore the brunt of the conflict, involving 55 participants in total. This chapter comprises four parts. First, it begins by briefly discussing the literature on motherhood in conflict-affected societies and elucidating why foregrounding motherhood by listening to women’s voices from a sociological viewpoint is required in the field. Second, it introduces the background of the research areas and provides sociological definitions of the key terms used in the book: everyday life, risk, motherhood and peacebuilding. Third, it will elaborate on the methodology and the ethical considerations pertaining to this study. Fourth, it concludes by mapping out the following chapters in this book.
This chapter begins the discussion of ‘post-conflict’ mothering and motherhood by exploring mothers’ perceptions and assessment of daily risks in a fragile peace and their practices to manage such risks. Through analysing the stories of ‘post-conflict’ motherhood and mothering, this chapter will consider the unacknowledged roles that ordinary mothers may play in reconstructing society in a ‘post-conflict’ society. This chapter comprises two parts. The first part considers how the formal ending of the conflict transformed the ‘normality’ in everyday life for families. This chapter argues that risk, uncertainty and disorder shape everyday lives for mothers despite the peacebuilding effort since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The latter half of this chapter will examine the agency of ‘post-conflict’ mothers, focusing on routinised mothering practices discussed by the respondents. It will discuss how mothers attempt to manage the perceived ‘post-conflict’ risks. I will elaborate on the actions that mothers engage in on a daily basis to mitigate risks, particularly those posed to their children and grandchildren with little or no experiences of a full-scale conflict. The chapter will illustrate how the paradoxically increased unruliness of everyday life complicates mothering roles in an ostensibly ‘peaceful’ society.
This final chapter concludes the book by revisiting the key findings and discussing how these sociological findings interact with and expand knowledge in the existing literature. This chapter comprises three parts. First, I summarise the discussions in the previous chapters and consider how my findings contribute to the sociological literature on risk and motherhood in modern societies. Second, I elaborate on how the respondents’ life stories interact with the idea of everyday life peacebuilding. I focus on two aspects of everyday life: namely, everyday life as social space and everyday life and its temporality. Third, this chapter discusses how my study advances the idea of everyday life peacebuilding. I will argue that while the concept enables the illumination of lives, thoughts and emotions of socially marginalised individuals, the concept needs to be examined through a gendered lens.
This chapter sets the context for the whole book by describing the broad context of digital transformations focusing on digital platforms across many domains in contemporary life. Platforms are now a key type of societal infrastructure governing many social, institutional and interpersonal interactions. The chapter then introduces literature describing how platforms are increasingly understood in relationship to families. This is both in terms of the family as a social unit and how the family conducts its interior and exterior lives through or ‘on’ platforms. The chapter describes the theories and concepts that have been used to explain how families use platforms to ‘compose’ themselves and how families are addressed and identified as a social unit through and by digital platforms. Contemporary ideas of the family itself are of course in a change of flux and the chapter goes onto describe how the sociology of the family is reconceptualising what the family might mean in the context of radical social restructuring and individualisation. The chapter ends by trying to conceptualise the relationship between families and platforms and how this relationship may be better understood by researching the activities of platformizatio n.
This article analyses how German politicians have responded, through the use of political narratives, to notable developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over a period of 30 years. Conceptually engaging with the literature on identity, ontological (in)security, and narratives, we explore how narratives have been utilised in Germany to mitigate situations which cause normative dissonance, thereby challenging the stability of Germany’s autobiographical narrative, such as Israeli military campaigns or tensions between Israel and Palestine. In the first systematic narrative analysis on this topic, we look at 267 German parliamentary speeches between 1993 and 2023. The article shows how German politicians and political parties developed specific coping strategies to uphold solidarity with Israel, while overall ensuring a stable and coherent narrative of Germany’s national identity. We conceptualise Germany's narrative engagement as the articulation of a delicate ‘balancing act’. Specifically, politicians navigate competing perceived responsibilities and commitments through prioritisation and narrative adaptation.
This chapter establishes the book’s conceptual and methodological foundation, offering a comprehensive overview of research on grandchildhood and grandchild-grandparent relationships since the 1940s. It highlights the importance of understanding grandchildren within the broader context of family relationships, with a focus on how the middle generation mediates these cross-generational ties. Central to this chapter is the introduction of ‘grandchild practices’, a key concept drawn from the practice approach in family studies (Morgan, Family Connections: An Introduction to Family Studies. Cambridge: Polity, 1996, Rethinking Family Practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). These practices are characterized as active, everyday, fluid, and relational actions that grandchildren engage in, shaping their relationships with grandparents. The chapter situates these grandchild practices within societal norms and expectations surrounding grandchildhood and grandparenthood, which often give rise to intergenerational ambivalence (Lüscher and Pillemer, Intergenerational Ambivalence: A New Approach to the Study of Parent–Child Relations in Later Life. Journal of Marriage and the Family 60 (2): 413–425. https://doi.org/10.2307/353858, 1998; Connidis and McMullin, Sociological Ambivalence and Family Ties: A Critical Perspective. Journal of Marriage and the Family 64 (3): 558–567. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2002.00558.x, 2002). Emphasizing the mutuality and interdependencies between grandchildhood and grandparenthood (Kahana et al. Grandparents-grandchild Relationships: A Proposed mutuality Model with a Focus on Young Children and Adolescents. In Grandparenting: Influences on the Dynamics of Family Relationships, ed. Bert Hayslip and Christine A. Fruhauf, 61–80. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2019), as well as the relational nature of grandchildhood (Eldén et al. Grandchildhood: Care and Relationality in Narratives of Three Generations in Sweden. Childhood 31(1), 120–137. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682231216630, 2024), this chapter provides a crucial lens for understanding the dynamic and evolving nature of these family connections.
This chapter explores the largely overlooked perspective of grandchildren within the context of multigenerational living, where three generations share time and space daily. At the same time, it provides the crucial context for the enactment of grandchild practices. This chapter aims to uncover how grandchildren perceive multigenerational living arrangements, the reasons behind these setups, and the impact of their grandparents’ daily presence. It delves into how grandchildren navigate their roles within these living arrangements, both as the youngest generation and specifically as grandchildren. The chapter examines how co-residence with grandparents shapes the grandchildren’s daily lives and their relationships with their grandparents. By focusing on the time-space intensification of grandchild-grandparent contact, the chapter argues that living under the same roof creates significant opportunities for intensive cross-generational interactions. However, this co-presence is ambivalent: while it can foster a sense of ontological security and satisfaction for grandchildren, it also challenges their privacy and creates expectations they may not wish to meet. This chapter is crucial as it addresses the gap in research on multigenerational living by highlighting the experiences and viewpoints of the youngest generation. It also lays the foundation for the analysis in Chaps. 4, 5, 6, and 7, showing how the conditions for face-to-face, one-on-one, regular, and routinized interactions and shared activities are established.
The term modernity refers to both a historical phenomenon and a discourse that contains environmentally harmful conceptions. One of the main schools of thought in green politics critiques this rhetoric from a poststructuralist perspective and links ecological degradation to modernity. Given this context, this study examined the discourses of 32 different television car advertisements by applying critical discourse analysis, from 1970s to the early 2010s for two of Turkiye's most popular car brands, Fiat-Tofas and Renault. Poststructuralists argue that discourses of speed, power, challenging nature, mobility, and freedom promote consumption, thereby increasing ecological degradation. These crucial themes were also essential components in the analysed Turkish television car advertisements. Another common motif was patriarchal language. In conclusion, the analysis demonstrates that the discourses criticised by green political thinkers are not exclusive to Western societies but are prevalent in diverse cultural contexts, manifesting in various forms.
Since I left the police in 2018 and continued my academic journey into criminology I have been faced with the dilemma that many of my contemporary researchers seemingly hold the view that qualitative methodologies such as autoethnography lack the academic rigour necessary for the research to be taken seriously. I have struggled with this idea as my lived experience is that the richness of personal and emotional data gained from being immersed in the research is an invaluable resource for reflection and construction of concepts and theory. To this end I write this chapter as an antidote to the prevailing tyranny of the quantitative which I believe exists within the discipline of criminology. I have successfully defended autoethnography as a valid methodology in a number of conferences and events and certain within my PHD viva where my examiner asked me the killer question “Why is autoethnography research and me-search”? This chapter aims to answer that question and promote autoethnographic thinking in the social sciences.
Education is represented as a global enterprise, an essential form of government with no centre and with little recourse to deliberative intervention. The global university is considered as an important feature of the postcolonial global hierarchy of being, analogous to the ‘great chain of being’ celebrated in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, with its feudal, hieratic structure. The educationscape is identified and described as the key governmental feature of the contemporary world, the apotheosis of biopower’s triumph in modernity and beyond. The ranking and ordering of the world through education is an important feature of this governmentality. The postcolonial development and continuation of this state of affairs is examined in relation to what is referred to as global technological enframing, the decentred restriction of being in modern and contemporary polities enacted through educational apparatuses. The remorseless idea of lifelong education is revisited as an essential component of this condition. The failure of educational discourses to grasp the condition of its own being is considered as essential to strange but almost universal celebration of education as an unquestioned good, so that critique falls short, reserving ‘pure education’ as the path to redemption or improvement.
Based on ethnographic research conducted in two medium security prisons in 2007–8, this chapter describes the rise of managerialism in English prisons. The structure of prison management changed with the introduction of an extensive regime of performance targets, audits and other measures. This was reinforced through assertive, hierarchical management. This period also saw a shift in culture and identity of prison managers as they came to accept and even embody a new approach, developing a managerial habitus. This is not to say that local and traditional occupational cultures were entirely obliterated, rather there was a dynamic interplay between local and global, giving rise to a distinctive form of prison managerialism.
Drawing on the contributions presented in the special issue “God’s Influencers: How Social Media Users Shape Religion and Pious Self-Fashioning”, this introduction explores resonances and dissonances between the six articles: First, I reconsider the online/offline connection in relation to the religious actors examined. Then, I articulate a post techno-utopian vision of religion online, identifying digital media as a social space where inequalities, prejudices and power structures offline can be both reinforced and challenged. Third, I shed light on the subjective turn in the way online religious actors understand and impart “authenticity”, a heatedly debated concept in the context of both religion and social media. Fourth, I present some of the communicative strategies that the religious social media users examined in this special issue employ. And, finally, I conclude by sketching future research directions in the study of how social media users shape religion and pious self-fashioning.
This article develops the narratological approach to well-being research through the novel use of literary theory. It is the first article to explore the role of narrative genre in how unaccompanied refugee and migrant youth expressed their life projects and experiences of confronting the challenges and opportunities of the migration and asylum regime. It argues that narrative is important to understanding their life projects and well-being needs, as well as to how they understand themselves in relation to society and how likely they are to interact (or not) with support structures. Five main narrative genres are discussed that were encountered in mixed-methods ethnographic fieldwork with over 100 individuals in England and Italy: (1) tragedy, (2) comedy, (3) epic, (4) confession, and (5) fantasy. The article interrogates the value of “truth” in these narratives and concludes that storytelling is fundamentally linked to the sense of ontological security, which is vital to the youths’ subjective well-being.
The first volume concentrates contributions defined by the key concepts of otherness, reactionary politics, and the class gaze. Departing from the watershed event of the Greek economic crisis and its long-term effects in the Greek socio-political life during the last fifteen years, the contributions of the volume focus on media practices that we frame as reactionary, such as demeaning representations of ethnic and class others, conspiracy theories in mass media, historical revisionism, as well as far-right media content and discourses, which are nowadays proliferating in the Greek public sphere. Additionally, a notion of the self-as-other emerges in some of the volume’s contributions, in which the histories and cultures of Greek refugee and migrant as a classed and gendered subject are outlined in classical cinema, and experiences of working-class migrant women are narrated through self ethnography.
This article explores the potential of normative identity work to foster humanistic transformation, drawing from Erich Fromm’s social theory. By engaging with Fromm’s insights into the interplay between individuals and societal structures, the analysis demonstrates how identity work – understood as an ongoing process of self-construction within social contexts – can confront what Fromm terms the ‘pathology of normalcy’. Central to the discussion are Fromm’s reflections on identity and its relationship to the human needs for rootedness, relatedness and the construction of a frame of orientation.
The article integrates Fromm’s views on identity with contemporary identity research, illustrating the tensions between conforming to societal expectations and the pursuit of self-realisation. It introduces the ‘normative ABC of identity work’, a model structured around three key dimensions: agency, belonging and coherence. This model offers a lens to examine the various ways societal forces shape identity work, influencing individuals in directions that may either align with societal norms or open pathways towards humanistic growth and transformation.
In the conclusion, the article emphasises the relationship between identity work and Fromm’s concept of social character, highlighting how social character can reflect and reinforce societal patterns while also pointing to the transformative potential embedded in humanistic values. This synthesis provides a critical framework for understanding how identity work can both sustain and challenge existing social norms and power structures.
Anthony Giddens focuses on the relationship between individual identity and modern institutions, arguing that the reflexivity of modernity reaches the very core of the self. The self thus becomes a reflexive project, one that is clearly influenced by institutional changes. Giddens writes:Modern institutional reflexivity, or “the regularized use of knowledge about circumstances of social life as a constitutive element in its organization and transformation”, influences identity by mediating its institutional dimension. This leads to the intertwining of personal and social transformation, with law playing a significant role. Giddens also argues that individual subjectivity conditions one’s identity. In other words, an individual possesses identity precisely through personal relationships with oneself and others, and through the ability to direct one’s own life. He suggests that changes in identity need to be experienced, shaped and sometimes reconstructed through a reflexive process—in which personal and social transformation are intertwined. In my view, this is closely related to the legal sphere and discovering authentic subjectivity through and within modern law. This process is associated with empowering the individual by granting them certain rights, and by assigning them duties and responsibilities for their actions. This means that personal identity is a right that is bound up with being human, as every human being becomes a person from the moment they acquire legal subjectivity.
The point of departure for the considerations in this chapter is provided by Isaiah Berlin’s words: “there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathizing with and deriving light from each other. […] Forms of life differ. Ends, moral principles, are many”. This implies that accepting human diversity and its individual manifestations reveals the possibility of conflicts or tensions—both in interpersonal relations, thus in the sphere of collective identity, and in terms of the individual’s own identity.
Nowadays it is recognized that an individual’s identity is constructed through reflection. So it has to be borne in mind that a human individual is a being that not only exists over time, but also that the development which this being constantly undergoes is one of its essential ontological features. This leads to the assertion that the individual’s identity and ontological structure are ongoing processes; issues requiring constant updating and refinement. Reflexivity and thinking are thus the fundamental factors that constitute an individual’s identity. The concept of narrative helps us understand this, as a narrative creates a temporal structure, and so evolves over time, has a beginning and an end. In this sense, a story is a sequence of statements, the elements of which are arranged in linear interdependence and are ordered chronologically. In other words, a story is a structure that unfolds over time, that reproduces the passage of time, and as such it can reveal the temporal relation between two states of affairs and how a situation changes as time goes by. The concept of narrative is of course complex, and it is understood in various ways which focus on different defining aspects. It has been pointed out that a narrative includes descriptions of actions and past events that are deemed noteworthy—by the narrator and listener—because they deviate from ordinary events or situations. It has also been emphasized that a narrative statement is constructed on the basis of at least two appropriately related sentences, so there are no absolute or independent narrative sentences. Finally, Hayden White significantly expanded the concept of “narrative structure”, by introducing emplotment:
It is undeniable that our changing world, with its new cultural, social, economic and political contexts, necessitates a redefinition of established identity models. The need to engage in reflection on the social reality around us entails considering a range of phenomena, such as identity crisis, the sense of alienation, as well as the decomposition and fragmentation of social life. At the same time, however, in addition to these negative phenomena, positive processes are also emerging that serve the shaping, self-definition, and contemporary interpretation of the elements necessary for constructing individual identity, as well as for concretizing new collective identities, which are all part and parcel of expressing a pluralistic perspective on the social reality that surrounds us.
The current study explored muscularity and weight training’s role as capital in people’s identities across various contexts. Eleven weight trainers from two gyms were interviewed (three females, eight males) about their desires for muscularity and the role it played in their lives. Thematic narrative analysis identified narratives that framed the individuals’ muscular desires, behaviours, and importance. Muscularity formed a versatile resource—identity capital—that was a key part of the individuals’ body projects. These body projects and identity capital facilitated the individuals’ identity performances in a range of contexts (e.g. occupation, gender). Three narratives emerged (individualist, illusionist, and promoter) that highlighted the intertwined tangible (e.g. leanness and strength) and intangible (e.g. control and self-empowerment) attributes associated with muscularity and weight training that facilitated successful identity performances. These narratives achieved goals of self-empowerment (Individualist), self-protection (Illusionist), or self-advertisement (Promoter) which enabled successful identity performances. The current findings advance existing literature by suggesting muscularity is a versatile form of identity capital that can facilitate multiple identities (e.g. occupation, gender) and contexts. The potential benefit to an individuals’ sense of self also highlights the positive effect of muscularity weight training as a tool for self-promotion and personal growth.
This chapter delves into the broader social and historical context of Australia, a settler-colony that has been shaped by colonial legacies, contemporary neoliberalism and global capitalism. It traces our current overlapping crises—social, environmental, existential—through a modernity/coloniality framework, unravelling Australia’s power dynamics and social hierarches which inevitably impact the lives of young people, albeit in different ways and to different degrees. At the coalface of these crises, the chapter considers the forms of violence—symbolic and cultural—that cause social suffering for young people as they craft identities and make lives within this historical moment. Finally, this chapter examines how young people, despite being characterised as politically apathetic, are resisting, surviving and thriving through spectacular, creative and quiet forms of activism, leading and partaking in social movements, and building new communities and ways of being from the ground up.
This paper uses textual analysis of an audio note that circulated on WhatsApp in 2018 presenting the founder of a rapidly growing predominantly women-only Zimbabwean prayer group. The audio note’s content is taken as an emergent ethnography exposing emic views of women’s lived realities. The analysis uses notions of ‘chronicity’, (Vigh 2008, 10–15) and ‘women’s suffering’ (Cole 2012, 384–6) to ground the audio note’s content in Zimbabwe’s prolonged socioeconomic and political crises. Chronic crises produce unique social actions (Vigh 2008), such as popular religious practices and theologies (Miller-McLemore 2018). The group prefers do-it-yourself ( DIY ) prayers which demand constant environmental and self-assessment, and comparing with peers. The group’s construction of women’s suffering as anathema to ideal Pentecostal personhoods discussed in four themes discernible from the audio note is revealing (Harnisch 2000). Techniques of DIY prayers echo the feminist notion that ‘the personal is political’. Thus, the group potentially contributes to gender transformation.
This article approaches the mystery of preference formation –
a blind spot in the capability approach – from the angle of
aspiring. I argue that aspiring – actively engaging with
desirable representations of potential futures – can be
helpful to analyse the social processes involved in
preference formation under two conditions. Firstly, we
need to clarify the conceptual confusion around aspiring
that can be found in the capability literature and beyond.
Secondly, we need to consider the social and temporal
embeddedness of aspiring, which can be done by
examining the relationships between aspiring and people’s
lived experiences. Building on a critical discussion of the
contribution of sociologists Alfred Schutz and Pierre Bourdieu
to the study of projecting, I propose a framework to (a)
analyse why aspiring may happen to lead to conceiving
conservative aspirations despite adversity – thereby aligning
with adaptive preferences in the sense of Sen (2002) and Elster (1983) – and to (b) envision the pathways along which aspiring could, alternatively, lead to emergent aspirations, i.e. geared at enhanced well-being.
This study explores how watching international sports is related to the identity of overseas Chinese. Starting from the social significance of mediated sports, the article constructs its conceptual framework through the symbolic power of sports, media events, imagined community, networked publics, and characteristics of the diasporic community. Based on this, the study carried out 10 interviews on the Chinese diaspora in the United Kingdom, summarized the mechanisms and ways of linking mediated sports with national unity, and revealed the factors that will probably cause change to this connection. The results show that the symbolic power of sports and the consciousness as Asian are ties of diaspora identity construction and form patriotism in sporting contexts. Meanwhile, the degree of integration into local society and their community preference are influencing the status of collective identity enhancement brought by mediated sports.
Most deaf children are brought up in a linguistic environment in which their parents, caregivers, and teachers are not fluent signers and cannot provide them with natural language input. This paper presents a survey of the state-of-the-art on the existing practices for supporting families of deaf children and hearing practitioners within and outside Europe. Responses were submitted from seventeen different countries. The data were collected by an ongoing multilingual survey in the context of the “Sign Links” European Program Erasmus+ led by the Hellenic Federation of the Deaf. The results revealed the need to develop a common knowledge and understanding of the difficulties that hearing adults (practitioners and parents) face, their perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge about the deaf community, their skills in sign language, and the support they need to obtain awareness of deaf people's abilities within and outside European countries.
The present study was conducted to understand the essence of the lived experience of the stateless erstwhile enclave dwellers in India and Bangladesh who later chose Indian citizenship during land and population swap between the two countries as per Land Boundary Agreement (2015). The study is phenomenological in nature and studies the phenomenon of living in statelessness in the Enclaves for generations, their emotions during transition and their pollyannaism after getting citizenship. The researchers conducted unstructured open ended interviews among the erstwhile enclave dwellers who were bestowed Indian citizenship and are living in India. Samples were taken both from the enclave dwellers who have been living in their own place and not displaced during land and population swap as per Land and Boundary Agreement (LBA) 2015, between India and Bangladesh and also from the enclave dwellers who had to move to the Indian mainland and are living in Permanent Rehabilitation Clusters (PRCs) provided by the Indian Authorities. All the participants of the study were male and their real names have been replaced by the pseudo names. The enclave dwellers reflected that the decades and generations of suffering from statelessness, lawlessness, lack of schools, hospitals and other civic amenities has cost their education, mental and physical health, dignity and identity. Though all the erstwhile enclave dwellers reflect on the statelessness and express their emotion on getting citizenship in the same way, but the pollyannaism of enclave dwellers who were not displaced by LBA 2015 and living in the ancestral place and those who are living in the PRCs are quite different.
This study investigates the characteristics and changing trends of the migrant population in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a typical ethnic minority area in China, based on China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2013 and 2017, supplemented by the 2020 national population census data. Findings reveal narrowing differences between Han and ethnic minority migrants, with most migration occurring within the region. The ethnic diversity of the migrant population in Inner Mongolia has increased, while the living spaces of multiple ethnic groups have become more intertwined. Economic integration has deepened, while cultural integration advantages persist. Accepting attitudes toward social integration continue to grow, reflecting population mobility’s role in promoting multidimensional ethnic embeddedness in the new era. This comparative analysis provides insights into the multifaceted nature of ethnic embeddedness amid population mobility.
Drawing on ontological security studies and Lacanian theory, the article examines the role of ?spiritual-moral values? (SMV) in Russian politics. It argues that SMV have been employed by the Russian political elite to construct an (illusory) sense of ontological security, presented as attainable via the promotion of sovereignty and national unity. Through the analysis of policy documents and Vladimir Putin?s speeches for the period 2012?2023, the article outlines three interlocking narratives: (a) Russian cultural norms are under attack; (b) attacks can be resisted through cultural sovereignty, with SMV playing a crucial role; and (c) the Russian population is united through the same SMV. These narratives (?fantasies? in the Lacanian sense) create promises destined to remain unfulfilled: cultural sovereignty is based on the unrealistic belief that culture can remain unaltered, while existing policies fragment society, causing the ontological insecurity of ethnic and sexual minorities, but also the Russian population more widely.
Thesis (M.S.)--University of California, San Francisco, 1984. Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-iii).
This study explored adolescents' perspective of their diabetic management. Data were collected via semistructured interviews with twelve counselors-in-training (aged 15 to 18) at a diabetic youth camp. Interviews were analyzed using the constant comparative method, which reinforces and reviews themes. These themes were further grouped into three categories: psychosocial, developmental, and clinical. A striking finding throughout the data was the ambivalence regarding diabetic issues. Major implications of this study are the richness of data available from adolescents who have diabetes, and the importance of considering the adolescent's perspective when planning diabetic care.
Short-term effects of coping skills training as adjunct to intensive therapy in adolescents.
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I get by with a little help from my family and friends (Adolescent’s support for diabetes care) .
- Lagreca
Gaining freedom (Self-responsibility in adolescents with diabetes) .
- Christian
Effect of intensive diabetes treatment on the development and progression of long-term complications in adolescents with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial) .
Chronic illness in children and adults
- Hagopianhymovich Hymovich
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