The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 Peter Borsay Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain 1660-1760 Lorna Weatherill The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730 Peter Earle

1990 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-353
Author(s):  
Albert J. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Urban Renaissance

Family Life in Lower and Middle Class Homes

1952 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Life

scholarly journals Time-Space Flexibility and Work: Analyzing the “Anywhere and Anytime Office” in the Entertainment, New Media, and Arts Sector

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-360
Author(s):  
Leila Valoura
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Media ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Work At Home ◽  
Time Diaries ◽  
At Home

The applied cultural analysis work presented in this article was conducted with independent professionals who work in a flexible time-space format – known as telework – for the entertainment, new media, and arts sector in the Los Angeles area. Most participants are associates of the production and post-production boutique “Studio Can” as well as the curatorial new media and arts nonprofit organization “PalMarte.” When working in a flexible time-space format, boundaries between leisure/family life and work at home, or personal and public realms, tend to become blurred. This blurred context involves a web of cultural complexity that exists behind the materialization of boundaries. Through empirical material, this article examines rhythms and mechanisms between flexibility and stability, unveiling a viscous consistency of everyday life. This work helps to better understand the relation between leisure/family life and work at home, as well as stability and change, to rethink these realms and how they relate to each other but also how they transform one another. Although culturally different, these realms are bridged through the material culture that surrounds them. As conveyors, objects (such as a heating pad) and activities culturally transport participants between realms. Research methods combined time-diaries, interviews, observation, visual ethnography, and autoethnography. While applying academic knowledge into a non-academic setting to rethink realms and how they relate and transform each other in a bridged relationship, this work is also an invitation to rethink the relationship between the realms of academia and non-academia.

scholarly journals The First Mrs. Rochester: Wrongful Confinement, Social Redundancy, and Commitment to the Private Asylum, 1883‑1923

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-167
Author(s):  
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Case Histories

Abstract Historians have debated the growth of asylums as either a movement towards social control or as a benevolent reform; yet commitment was primarily initiated by kin. The rapid overcrowding of asylums reflected the success of institutions in responding to family crises. Through analysis of 1,134 case histories of a private asylum, the Homewood Retreat of Guelph, Ontario, the dynamics of the late Victorian and Edwardian middle-class household are evident in the circumstances which culminated in the decision to commit. Urban industrialization and the declining birth rate rendered households less able to care for the insane, while the permeation of capitalist relations into family life rendered the heads of households less willing to care for nonproductive adult members, particularly socially redundant women. The diagnosis of neurasthenia enabled members of the middle class to institutionalize kin for behaviour which, although not violent or destructive, was irritating and antagonistic, thereby reflecting the high standard of middle-class proprieties.

Family policy for all South African families

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1189-1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlize Rabe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Family Diversity ◽  
Vulnerable Families ◽  
African Families

The ‘White Paper of Families in South Africa’ is critically analysed in this article. It is shown that although family diversity is acknowledged in the aforementioned document, certain implications of the document undermine such professed diversity, not all caretakers of children are acknowledged and supported, and financially vulnerable families are not strengthened. Instead, narrow ideals of family life are at times promoted, suggesting middle-class heterosexual values. It is argued here that the realities of family life should be accepted as such and family in different forms should be supported consistently, not subtly pushed to conform to restricted interpretations of what families should be like.

Coming Home to The Brady Bunch

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-460
Author(s):  
Miroslava Chávez-García
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Racial Ethnic

The television sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969–1974) and its subsequent reruns presented upper-middle-class whiteness and a version of idealized family life as normative. Its underrepresentation of racial, ethnic, and class differences did more than serve as a form of escapism for young Latina/o television watchers—it impacted their sense of identity and self-esteem, their attitudes toward their own parents, and their own later modes of parenting, as the author’s personal experience illustrates. At the same time, the series’ few episodes that did depict minority characters encouraged stereotyping that influenced the larger population. A content and visual analysis of episodes of The Brady Bunch confirms the sitcom’s repeated themes of gender and sexuality and its near absence of focus on differences of race, ethnicity, and class.

Childhood Socialization and Companion Animals: United States, 1820-1870

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine C. Grier
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Conscious Choice ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Cruelty To Animals ◽  
Good And Evil

AbstractBetween 1820 and 1870, middle-class Americans became convinced of the role nonhuman animals could play in socializing children. Companion animals in and around the household were the medium for training children into self-consciousness about, and abhorrence of, causing pain to other creatures including, ultimately, other people. In an age where the formation of character was perceived as an act of conscious choice and self-control, middle-class Americans understood cruelty to animals as a problem both of individual or familial deficiency and of good and evil. Training children to be self-conscious about kindness became an important task of parenting. Domestic advisors also argued that learning kindness was critical for boys who were developmentally prone to cruelty and whose youthful cruelty had implications both for the future of family life and for the body politic. The practice of pet keeping, where children became stewards of companion animals who were then able to teach young humans such virtues as gratitude and fidelity, became a socially meaningful act.

scholarly journals Economics of the Illustration: The Revue illustrée in the 1890s

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Evanghelia Stead
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Print Material ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Assistant Editor

The Parisian Revue Illustrée (1885–1912), a middle-class periodical of broad circulation and sophisticated iconography, lets us examine the expansion of fin-de-siècle culture beyond the so-called ‘petites revues’, particularly in the years 1894–1903. Through this fashionable all-publics fortnightly, typically fin-de-siècle tales and songs on transient motives, replete with Art Nouveau images and ornamentation, reach bourgeois households. The article shows the niche category the magazine occupied through its copious and exciting iconography. Using unpublished correspondence and print material culture, it throws light on the ways its editors turned the more refined parts of the magazine into deluxe photo-mechanically produced books. The study focuses on two men, René Baschet, the Revue’s editor from 1889 to 1904, and Jérôme Doucet, his assistant editor from July 1897 to 1902, and two fin de siècle writers, Catulle Mendès and Jean Lorrain, as well as up-coming artists André Cahard, Henry Bellery-Desfontaines, Manuel Orazi, and Carloz Schwabe. The case shows that sophisticated illustration was a financial spur that came cheap while it supported the so-called ‘decadent’ writings. Further, with refined taste, numerous connexions to artists, and work for a Dutch publisher, Jérôme Doucet emerges as a key figure behind the scenes.

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