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Sociology | Environmental sociology | Social Policy | Sociology of health | Policy and Administration | Sociology of family and relationships | Sociology | Social Program Evaluation | Sociological Methodology And Research Methods | Social Theory | Urban Sociology And Community Studies
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Introduction: Embracing emotional research: Methodological challenges in the sociology of emotions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-12-2015
Emotional Compliance and Emotion as Resistance: Shame and Anger among the Long-Term Unemployed
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-05-2019
Abstract: Contemporary governments employ a range of policy tools to ‘activate’ the unemployed to look for work. Framing unemployment as a consequence of personal shortcoming, these policies incentivise the unemployed to become ‘productive’ members of society. While Foucault’s governmentality framework has been used to foreground the operation of power within these policies, ‘job-seeker’ resistance has received less attention. In particular, forms of emotional resistance have rarely been studied. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 80 unemployed welfare recipients in Australia, this article shows that many unemployed people internalise activation’s discourses of personal failure, experiencing shame and worthlessness as a result. It also reveals, however, that a significant minority reject this framing and the ‘feeling rules’ it implies, expressing not shame but anger regarding their circumstances. Bringing together insights from resistance studies and the sociology of emotions, this article argues that ‘job-seeker’ anger should be recognised as an important form of ‘everyday resistance’.
Megadose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 03-2002
The impact of the built environment on loneliness: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1970
‘I’ll just text you’: Is face-to-face social contact declining in a mediated world?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-11-2016
Abstract: The rise in the network society might lead to a decline in face-to-face contact as people substitute it with more mediated forms, or an increase in both face-to-face and mediated contact as complements, with unknown consequences for social support. This article examines trends in social contact, mediated contact (phone, online, etc.), and social support in 2002, 2006 and 2010, using aggregated ABS General Social Survey data. Results show an aggregate decline in face-to-face contact and rise in mediated contact in Australia between 2002 and 2010, but no aggregate decline in perceived social support, and a strong positive in idual-level association between both forms of contact and social support. There are, however, signs of an emerging class-based digital ide, with low-income older men and less educated respondents reporting lower levels of mediated contact and social support by 2010.
Social Emotions: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Publisher: Brill
Date: 15-11-2019
DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010056
Abstract: Current research on emotions represents a broad church of methodological approaches. The essays in this special issue will investigate how social emotions inform research across numerous disciplinary fields and methodological approaches. This introduction will set out the social dimensions of emotions like shame, anger, anxiety, empathy and pity from a specifically sociological perspective. In sum, this will work to counter tendencies that in idualise emotions as purely subjective or cognitive phenomena, and to demonstrate how the significance of social emotions is not restricted to any singular discipline.
Happy, Stressed, and Angry: A National Study of Teachers' Emotions and Their Management
Publisher: Brill
Date: 15-11-2019
DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010058
Abstract: The teaching profession offers meaningful, stimulating work that accords with teachers’ sense of professional pride and identity, but is also synonymous with high levels of stress, conflict (and associated emotions such as anger and shame) and ultimately, attrition. The degree to which teachers within a national population ‘up-manage’ the former or ‘down-manage’ the latter emotions is unknown. This study utilises new data from the Australian Survey of Emotions and Emotion Management ( SEEM ) to examine emotions and emotion management among teachers, and workers in comparable service roles, such as health care and customer service, in contemporary Australian society. It finds that teachers exhibit great natural happiness, but also experience and hide (through surface-acting) high levels of stress. Teachers also experience high levels of anger compared to other professions, though they usually manage this successfully through deep acting strategies. These findings imply that teachers are generally happy and professionally committed to (and proud of) their work, but at the cost of managing significant levels of stress and conflict. We discuss the implications for teacher professional development, initial teacher education and policy, and the need to investigate anger/shame dynamics and management in future research into pedagogy.
SOCIAL CONTACT, EFFICACY AND SUPPORT AMONGST AUSTRALIAN FATHERS
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-10-2012
The sociology of emotions: A meta-reflexive review of a theoretical tradition in flux
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2017
Abstract: Based in a novel ‘meta-reflexive’ review of sociology of emotions (SoE) articles, we suggest that there are two primary SoE theoretical traditions that function within geographic silos: the USA is distinctly social psychological, while in the UK and Australia, SoE is more aligned with the humanities. In both traditions, parallel calls are emerging for interdisciplinarity and further engagement with physiological and pre-personal elements of emotion. Based in Archer’s and Bourdieu’s concepts of reflexivity, we assert the merits of reflexively examining SoE, and then identify key changes in SoE that have emerged across time and geography. Using Kuhn’s work on paradigm shifts, we conclude that SoE is entering a stage of growth and change, and raise important questions about the subdiscipline’s future direction.
National Evaluation (2004-2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1728592
Stronger Families in Australia Study: The Impact of Communities for Children
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1728591
‘Once more, with feeling,’ said the robot: AI, the end of work and the rise of emotional economies
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 05-2020
DOI: 10.1332/263168919X15750193136130
Abstract: This article calls for a new research agenda into ‘emotional economies’, or economies increasingly characterised by the creation, extraction and exploitation of emotional products and labour, enabled by and embedded in rapid advances in technological and digital-media systems. We base this concept and call on a literature review linking technological automation, the future of work and emotions. Our review finds that: (1) many existing studies – whether predicting dystopian end-of-work mass unemployment, or utopian complementarities between humans, machines and digital platforms – are technologically determinist in nature, and do not account for the roles of culture, society, government, business and education in the machine–human–emotion interface (2) despite this, there is evidence that technology will replace many existing forms of human labour, leaving only technologically irreplaceable emotion-based soft-skill service work (and emotional labour) for humans to perform (3) there is an outside chance (in some literature) that technology and AIs will replace even emotional labour, though we argue this is unlikely for many years (4) the increasing centrality of emotional industries, emotional data and emotional labour to work, digital platforms and media-imagery will likely lead to emotions becoming vital commodities, central to the economies of the future. The article concludes with an urgent call for a new research agenda on emotional economies to elaborate on private ublic intersections between work, economy and emotions that soberly engage with the future while challenging technologically determinist assumptions that underpin populist depictions of the end of work.
'The threat is in all of us': Perceptions of loneliness and divided communities in urban and rural areas during COVID‐19
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2021
DOI: 10.1002/JCOP.22732
Abstract: Loneliness is becoming recognised as an important social issue with health and well‐being consequences. The recent and ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic has likely impacted loneliness through increased social isolation, though the effects may vary across urban and rural locations, where the dynamics of social capital, community cohesion and community ide are likely to differ. This paper consequently examines the different and compounding impacts of isolating disasters, such as bushfires and pandemics, on social capital and loneliness in urban and rural areas of Australia. This article compares experiences of loneliness in rural/regional and urban areas of Australia moving from the aftermath of the 2019–2020 bushfires into the COVID‐19 pandemic. Semi‐structured interviews provide a complex insight into how loneliness is experienced across different locations. The key findings included a higher sense of social ide exacerbating loneliness in rural communities, higher levels of loneliness among participants who lived alone in either area. It was concluded that loneliness was experienced extensively among those who were single and/or lived alone, regardless of their geographical location.
Mega‐dose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 10-2001
DOI: 10.5694/J.1326-5377.2001.TB143618.X
Abstract: To determine the effect of large doses of vitamin C in the treatment of the common cold. Double-blind, randomised clinical trial with four intervention arms: vitamin C at daily doses of 0.03g ("placebo"), 1 g, 3g, or 3g with additives ("Bio-C") taken at onset of a cold and for the following two days. 400 healthy volunteers were recruited from staff and students of the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, between May 1998 and November 1999. The trial continued for 18 months. Participants were instructed to commence medication when they had experienced early symptoms of a cold for four hours, and to record daily their symptoms, severity, doctor visits and use of other medications. Duration of symptoms and cold episodes cumulative symptom severity scores after 7, 14 and 28 days doctor visits and whether participants guessed which medication they were taking. 149 participants returned records for 184 cold episodes. No significant differences were observed in any measure of cold duration or severity between the four medication groups. Although differences were not significant, the placebo group had the shortest duration of nasal, systemic and overall symptoms, and the lowest mean severity score at 14 days, and the second lowest at 7 and 28 days. Doses of vitamin C in excess of 1 g daily taken shortly after onset of a cold did not reduce the duration or severity of cold symptoms in healthy adult volunteers when compared with a vitamin C dose less than the minimum recommended daily intake.
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Capital
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 28-08-2015
Questioning the Need for Social Mix: The Implications of Friendship Diversity amongst Australian Social Housing Tenants
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-05-2012
Abstract: A common argument is that ‘social mix’—or a high ratio of homeowners and private renters to social housing tenants within the same neighbourhood—reduces disadvantage by eroding homogeneous ‘bonded’ social networks amongst the latter. However, associations between network homogeneity and support in social housing have not been analysed using national survey data. This article examines age, ethnic and educational homogeneity/heterogeneity and informal support using the 2006 Australian General Social Survey. Counter to expectations, social housing tenants have more heterogeneous friendship groups by all measures, regardless of respondents’ age, ethnicity or education. In addition, friendship heterogeneity is associated with more informal support in social housing, but less support in private housing. This raises concerns over the efficacy of ‘socially mixing’ already heterogeneous social housing communities and suggests that resistance to social mix is likely to stem from the attitudes of homeowners and private renters towards social tenants rather than the reverse.
Exploring the social capital grid: bonding, bridging, qualitative, quantitative
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-03-2007
DOI: 10.1108/01443330710722742
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show that numerous studies have advanced social capital research over the past decade. Most studies have accepted the theoretical distinction between bonding and bridging social capital networks. Many, however, tend to agglomerate empirical research under the one catch‐all social capital concept, rather than classifying it according to the bonding/bridging distinction. Furthermore, most studies make little distinction on the basis of methodology, between qualitative and quantitative approaches to investigating social capital. These omissions need to be addressed. This paper reviews definitions and applications of bridging and bonding social capital, classifies empirical studies according to each network type, and produces a further breakdown according to methodological approach. The result is a four‐part “grid” of social capital research, encompassing bonding and bridging, and quantitative and qualitative aspects. This paper finds that most qualitative research examines non‐excludable and excludable goods and is relevant to bonding social capital, whilst most quantitative analysis looks at civic networks and norms of trust, and relates to bridging social capital. Results advance the task of clarifying and measuring social capital. Further development of the bridging/bonding social capital conceptual pair should allow for a more precise measurement of a community, or region. No review paper to date captures the above empirical and methodological “grid” clearly.
Does partnership funding improve coordination and collaboration among early childhood services? - Experiences from the Communities for Children programme
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-04-2011
The front line of social capital creation – A natural experiment in symbolic interaction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2014.04.026
Abstract: This paper offers theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding the micro-sociological processes behind the creation of social capital. Theoretically, we argue that the emotional and shared experience of participating in symbolic interaction rituals may affect social capital in four different ways, via: (i) a 'citizenship' effect, connecting participants symbolically to the broader, civic society (ii) a 'supportive' effect, bonding participants with each other (iii) an exclusive 'tribal' effect, which crowds-out connections with other groups and the wider society and (iv) an 'atomising' effect, whereby intense experiences create mental health problems that damage social capital. We illustrate this with a case study of Australian veterans of the Vietnam War. The randomness of the National Service conscription lotteries of that era translates into a high-quality natural experiment. We formulate several hypotheses about which of the four effects dominates for veterans who participated in the 'symbolic interaction' of training and deployment. We test these hypotheses using data from the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing, and the NSW 45 & Up Study. We found that war service reduced 'bonding' social capital, but increased 'bridging' social capital, and this is not explained completely by mental health problems. This suggests that while the combined 'tribal' and 'atomizing' effects of service outweigh the 'supportive' effects, the 'citizenship' effect is surprisingly robust. Although they feel unsupported and isolated, veterans are committed to their community and country. These paradoxical findings suggest that social capital is formed through symbolic interaction. The emotional and symbolic qualities of interaction rituals may formulate non-strategic (perhaps irrational) connections with society regardless of the status of one's personal support networks.
Benchmarking the living standards of older Australians using budget standards
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2005
Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-05-2019
Abstract: Recent quantitative investigations consistently single out considerable gender variations in the experience of loneliness in Australia, and in particular how men are especially prone to protracted and serious episodes of loneliness. In 2017 the Director of Lifeline implicated loneliness as a significant factor in suicide among Australian men – currently three times the rate of suicide among women. Compared to women men also struggle to talk about loneliness or seek help from a range of informal and professional sources. We know very little about men’s experience of loneliness or why they are so susceptible to it currently and research is urgently needed in order to design specific interventions for them. To date, psychology has dominated the theoretical research on loneliness but in this article we argue that sociology has a key role to play in broadening out the theoretical terrain of this understanding so as to create culturally informed interventions. Most researchers agree that loneliness occurs when belongingess needs remain unmet, yet it is also acknowledged that such needs are culturally specific and changing. We need to understand how loneliness and gender cultures configure for men how they are located in different ethnic, class and age cohort cultures as well as the changing social/economic/spatial ublic/institutional bases for belonging across Australia. Theoretical enquiry must encompass the broader social structural narratives (Bauman, Giddens and Sennett) and link these to the changing nature of belonging in everyday life – across the public sphere, the domestic sphere, work, in kinship systems, housing and settlement patterns, associational life, in embodied relationships and online.
Social Isolation as Stigma-Management: Explaining Long-Term Unemployed People’s ‘Failure’ to Network
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2019
Abstract: Social networks play an important role in helping people find employment, yet extant studies have argued that unemployed ‘job-seekers’ rarely engage in ‘networking’ behaviours. Previous explanations of this inactivity have typically focused on in idual factors such as personality, knowledge and attitude, or suggested that isolation occurs because in iduals lose access to the latent benefits of employment. Social stigma has been obscured in these debates, even as they have perpetuated stereotypes regarding in idual responsibility for unemployment and the inherent value of paid work. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 80 unemployed Australians, this article argues that stigma-related shame is an important factor in networking decisions. First, it demonstrates that stigma is ubiquitous in the lives of the unemployed. Second, it identifies withdrawal from social networks and disassociation from ‘the unemployed’ as two key strategies that unemployed people use to manage stigma-related shame, and shows how these strategies reduce networking activities.
Early impacts of Communities for Children on children and families: findings from a quasi-experimental cohort study
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 22-03-2011
Abstract: There have been few evaluations of national area-based interventions. This study evaluated the early effects of Commmunities for Children (CfC) on children and their families and whether the effectiveness differed for more disadvantaged families. A quasi-experimental cohort study in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Australia. Mothers of children aged 2-3 years participated at wave 1 1488 children in CfC communities and 714 children in comparison communities. Outcome measures included child health and development, family functioning and parenting, and services and community. After controlling for background factors, there were beneficial effects associated with CfC. At wave 3, in CfC areas children had higher receptive vocabulary (mean difference (MD) 0.25, 95% CI -0.02 to 0.51 p=0.07), parents showed less harsh parenting (MD -0.14, 95% CI -0.30 to 0.02 p=0.08) and higher parenting self-efficacy (MD 0.11, 95% CI 0.00 to 0.21 p=0.04). Fewer children living in CfC sites were living in a jobless household (OR 0.56, 95% CI 0.32 to 0.95 p=0.03) but children's physical functioning (MD -0.26, 95% CI -0.53 to 0.00 p=0.05) was worse in CfC sites. For children living in households with mothers with low education there were reduced child injuries requiring medical treatment (MD -0.61, 95% CI -0.07 to -1.13 p=0.03) and increased receptive vocabulary (MD 0.57, 95% CI 0.06 to 1.08 p=0.03). CfC showed some benefits for child receptive vocabulary, parenting and reducing jobless households and two adverse effects. Children living in the most disadvantaged households also benefited.
Networks, case managers, and the job‐search experiences of unemployed people
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-01-2020
DOI: 10.1111/SPOL.12575
Qualitatively exploring the attributes of adaptability and resilience amongst recently graduated nurses
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEPR.2022.103406
Abstract: To explore newly graduated nurse's understandings and practices of adaptability and resilience in clinical environments. The everyday practice of nursing work involves managing emotional and practical everyday demands related to the role. Adaptability and resilience are two critical attributes that equip nurses for this by enabling them to manage challenges and be flexible with their practices and expectations in the face of rapidly changing and unpredictable circumstances. Informed by the theoretical underpinnings of the Person-centred Practice Framework, semi-structured interviews using topic guides were conducted with nine newly graduated registered nurse participants recruited through purposive s ling. Interviews occurred between March-October 2020 with participants working across seven different healthcare settings in three Local Health Districts in NSW, Australia. Analysis of the data generated the core themes of: 1) 'Making sense' explored how nurses defined resilience and adaptability 2) 'Surviving as the nurse' focused on how nurses experienced adaptability and resilience as a newly qualified nurse 3) 'Trusting oneself' reflected the interconnection of nurses' developed adaptability and resilience to their clinical self-assurance and 4) 'Doing it again' described how adaptability and resilience can be further supported by the university sector. Findings demonstrated that adaptability and resilience in combination are essential attributes and required for effective nursing practice post-graduation. However, both collegial and organizational support were found to be lacking in positively reinforcing these attributes in this study. Newly graduated nurses can develop adaptability in clinical practice, so they are a more resilient future workforce. However, greater organizational leadership is required to model and strengthen these attributes for nurses. When perceptions, knowledge and experiences of adaptability and resilience are developed using person-centred approaches, they will be used in person-centred ways. Newly graduated nurses can develop adaptability in clinical practice, so they are a more resilient future workforce. However, greater organizational leadership is required to model and strengthen these attributes for nurses. When perceptions, knowledge and experiences of adaptability and resilience are developed using person-centred approaches, they will be used in person-centred ways.
From Guanxi to Social Capital and Back Again: A Qualitative Study of Australian Chinese Migrants
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-07-2022
Mass Emotional Events: Rethinking Emotional Contagions after COVID-19
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 13-12-2021
The Relationship between Governance Networks and Social Networks: Progress, Problems and Prospects
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-10-2017
Abstract: A governance networks literature that uses social network analysis has emerged, but research tends to be more technical than conceptual. This restricts its accessibility and usefulness for non-quantitative scholars and practitioners alike. Furthermore, the literature has not adequately appreciated the importance of informal networking for the effective operation of governance networks. This can hinder inter-disciplinary analysis. Through a critical review, this article identifies four areas of challenge for the governance networks literature and offers four corresponding, complementary sets of concepts from the social network analysis field: (a) the difference between policy networks and governance networks, (b) the role and status of people in governance networks, (c) the ‘dark side’ of networks and the role of power differentials within them and (d) network evaluation and the question of ‘what works’ in network management. The article argues that a less technical, more accessible account of social network analysis offers an additional lens through which to view governance networks.
Dystopian Emotions
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 13-12-2021
DOI: 10.2307/J.CTV24CNSSH
The impact of gendered scripts on chlamydia and safe-sex on young Australian men and women’s performance of gender and sexual responsibility
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-08-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13634607231174548
Abstract: Over the last decade, young Australian’s rates of chlamydia infection have been steadily increasing with notable differences between young men and women (Kirby Institute, 2018). We explore the impact of gendered scripts on chlamydia and safe-sex on young heterosexual men and women’s performance of gender and sexual responsibility. We examine findings from a Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) of key Australian public health websites, alongside in-depth interviews, and qualitative survey responses of students from an Australian university. The FDA identified gendered scripts in public health resources that generally avoided focussing on men in favour of encouraging women to take responsibility for couple’s safe-sex behaviour. Interviews revealed heteronormative gendered scripts framed many sexual practices with stronger focus on unwanted pregnancy than STIs, disproportionate targeting of women for STI testing by doctors and more open discussions on sexual health among women. Interviews also highlighted the absence of a normative ‘formula’ – or script – for safe-sex discussions.
Indigenous children’s multimodal communication of emotions through visual imagery
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1007/BF03651988
Re-evaluating the Links Between Social Trust, Institutional Trust and Civic Association
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2010
Genome Sequence of the Diazotrophic Gram-Positive Rhizobacterium Paenibacillus riograndensis SBR5 T
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Date: 15-11-2011
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06100-11
Abstract: Paenibacillus riograndensis SBR5 T , a nitrogen-fixing Gram-positive rhizobacterium isolated from a wheat field in the south of Brazil, has a great potential for agricultural applications due to its plant growth promotion effects. Here we present the draft genome sequence of P. riograndensis SBR5 T . Its 7.37-Mb genome encodes determinants of the diazotrophic lifestyle and plant growth promotion, such as nitrogen fixation, antibiotic resistance, nitrate utilization, and iron uptake.
Megadose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 03-2002
Should I use my ‘weak’ social capital or ‘strong’ guanxi? Reviewing and critiquing two theories in the context of Western-Chinese migration
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-06-2020
Abstract: Social network dynamics are complex in the context of Chinese overseas migration because of the unique dynamics of guanxi, which are distinctly different from ‘Western’ social capital. The few migration studies comparing guanxi and social capital suggest that the former largely consists ‘strong ties’, while the latter is comprised of ‘weak ties’. However, most apply only a cursory comparison of one network facet. We review core literature in the two fields to contrast what each says about network norms, structures and practices. We find that: (i) guanxi is characterised by dynamics of ‘face’ and renqing (ii) guanxi has core and peripheral aspects that grant it bonding and bridging qualities (iii) weak ties in social capital networks are more beneficial for acquiring non-redundant resources, and for joining civic/voluntary associations (iv) while strong, face-based guanxi ties better mobilise valuable resources, these ties are rarely transformed into social capital.
Mass Emotional Events: Rethinking Emotional Contagions after COVID-19
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 13-12-2021
DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781529214543.003.0005
Abstract: This chapter highlights the impacts of social media on contemporary future thinking, offering the concept of mass emotional events to advance the concept of emotional contagions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. It sets out this new conceptual framework in contrast to earlier models for thinking about emotional climates and landscapes. It also provides reflections that contrast the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Black Summer bushfires in Australia as ex les of mass emotional phenomena. The chapter looks at recent work on theories of collective emotions that has recognized emotions as phenomena that spread between in iduals and groups to form collective emotional moods, landscapes, and climates. It discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has caused sudden and dramatic shifts in social interaction that warrants a reimagining of emotional contagions.
‘The New Economy and the Privilege of Feeling’:
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 13-12-2021
Mass Emotional Events:
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 13-12-2021
Are we reaching them yet? Service access patterns among attendees at the headspace youth mental health initiative
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-04-2013
Engaging Hard-to-Reach Families and Children
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1728576
Is social mixing of tenures a solution for public housing estates?
Publisher: The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.21307/EB-2012-001
The emotional trade-off between meaningful and precarious work in new economies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-07-2020
Abstract: The contradictory work environments of new economies in late modernity are associated with a range of emotional experiences, requiring erse emotion management strategies. Late modernity offers the capacity to pursue happy, safe, rewarding, and meaningful work for the privileged few a potential trade-off between stressful meaningful and boring precarious work for a greater number and the prospect of non-meaningful, precarious work for many in the new economy characterised by short-term contracts, gig work, precarity, and anxiety. This study draws on data from the 2015–16 Australian Social Attitudes Survey to examine workers’ emotions in various combinations of meaningful and precarious employment, and the degree to which these emotions are managed. It finds that it is best to have secure meaningful work, worst to have highly precarious work, and slightly better to have safe but alienating than risky meaningful work, in terms of avoiding often hidden negative emotions.
Counting Men: Quantitative Approaches to the Study of Men and Masculinities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Generalising men’s affective experiences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-08-2017
Early career teachers’ adaptability and resilience in the socio-relational context of Australian schools
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Poor Mothers and Lonely Single Males: The ‘Essentially’ Excluded Women and Men of Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-09-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746412000449
Abstract: It is unclear how much gendered social exclusion and disconnection reflects a problem or a preference. Women may prefer market-disengagement despite the risk of exclusion from ‘normal’ social activities through financial incapacity, and men may prefer market-engagement despite the risk of disconnection from informal social networks. This article examines these issues amongst Australian men and women. It finds women, particularly single and low-income mothers, are more socially excluded, and men, particularly single middle-aged men, are the most socially disconnected, after preferences. Future policy should be cognisant of contact preferences, intra-household support dynamics, long work hours and prevailing gender norms.
Conclusion: A Critical Mass of Emotions – Reflexivity, Loneliness and Hope?
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 13-12-2021
Sustaining interest: are green values converting to votes?
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2005
Effect of a specific preparation of Chinese herbs (“Clear the Way”) on duration and severity of the common cold
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 10-2001
Come together? The unusual combination of precariat materialist and educated post-materialist support for an Australian Universal Basic Income
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/14407833231167222
Abstract: International studies using the European Social Survey (ESS) reveal higher support for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in poorer countries with less generous welfare systems, and among in iduals with lower income and education, and leftist political leanings. We present data from the 2019−20 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes mirroring the ESS question. Australia falls in the middle of European opinion, with 51% supporting a UBI, increasing slightly during the onset of Covid-19. We also find higher support among two different groups: (1) those facing greater ‘material’ precarity, including younger, low-income, unemployed, suburban renters, and (2) those who have more post-materialist concerns, including Green-left voters and those favouring redistributive values. Unlike in other countries, higher education predicts more support, while homeownership predicts less. The article concludes with challenges to introducing UBI to Australia, including potentially contradictory strategies for different support bases (material vs post-material), ongoing commitments to means-testing, and negative framing in the media.
Exposing the “Wellbeing Gap” Between American Men and Women: Revelations From the Sociology of Emotion Surveys
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-11-2014
Abstract: Population surveys of emotion offer great potential to understand subjective wellbeing, though most do not reveal how emotions other than happiness and satisfaction impact on daily lives. This article presents a case study analysis of data from Kahneman and Krueger’s (2006) Princeton Time and Affect Survey to demonstrate that the choice of emotions or affects measured in surveys does matter in determining wellbeing in contexts such as those in which gender plays an important role. It finds that that tiredness and interest (excluded from Kahneman and Krueger’s wellbeing construct) comprise a large part of American women’s but not men’s unpleasant education, unpaid housework, and childcare. The article concludes by suggesting that the most appropriate method for establishing a “minimum” set of emotions is to conduct survey-based “audits” of emotions experienced in daily activities.
Beware the “loneliness gap”? Examining emerging inequalities and long‐term risks of loneliness and isolation emerging from COVID ‐19
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-06-2022
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.223
Abstract: Emerging evidence suggests COVID lockdowns have not only increased the social problem of loneliness but widened the ‘loneliness gap’ between the most and least lonely people. Qualitative investigation can reveal why this gap might have increased, for whom, and whether the loneliness gap will remain long term. Using multi‐wave qualitative survey data conducted during Australia’s 2020 lockdown period and beyond, we examine personal experiences of interaction transitioning out of lockdown. We find substantial and uneven impacts of COVID lasting well beyond lockdown. Participants reported heightened loneliness attributable to: physical isolation, health anxieties, ceased activities, reduced connection quality, and poor motivation. COVID also created new interactive difficulties for singles, those with physical and mental disabilities, their carers, and those with low social capital. There was also reported ‘pruning’ of social networks (i.e. reduced bridging, increased bonding social capital), and evidence that increased digital interaction did not substitute for lost physical contact. Younger people also experienced isolating COVID‐induced life disruptions (e.g. travel, university attendance etc). Findings suggest COVID has increased potential long‐term inequalities in loneliness, highlight the post COVID risks faced by vulnerable groups, and suggest caution in advocating digital solutions as a panacea for diminished physical interaction in the post‐pandemic world.
Introduction: Methodological innovations in the sociology of emotions part two - Methods
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-11-2015
Emotion management and solidarity in the workplace: A call for a new research agenda
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-01-2019
Abstract: Research focusing on the management of emotion features prominently in studies of employee attrition, gender inequality and workplace satisfaction, but rarely in research on worker solidarity. Against a backdrop of increasing in idualisation within late modern society, research about workplace management of emotion has become bifurcated along sociological or organisational psychology lines. Within the sociology literature, management of emotion is theorised as a commercialised, relational and (often) alienating experience. Within organisational psychology literature and research, the emphasis is on harnessing in idual traits and skills (e.g. emotional intelligence) to regulate emotions for increased productivity and employee retention. In this article, the authors call for a new research agenda that prioritises the examination of solidarity between workers alongside the analysis of emotion management. This call is based in a critical reading of the sociological and organisational psychology scholarship addressing the management of emotions. Through the ex le of teaching work, the authors provide a critique of scholarship on workplace strategies that promote highly in idualised understandings of managing emotions through resilience training and other simplified techniques. They argue that workplaces should recognise the dangers of uncritically adopting in idualised strategies for managing emotions, and propose a research agenda that seeks to understand how emotion management can affect worker solidarity.
Social Trust, Social Partner Time and Television Time
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2010
Gendered emotion management and teacher outcomes in secondary school teaching: A review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Introduction to the Special Issue on emotions in social life and social policy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2012
Conclusion:
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 13-12-2021
Social connectedness and generalized trust: a longitudinal perspective
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 28-08-2015
Advancing wellbeing research: would Americans be happier if they lived like Australians?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2012
Social contact, efficacy and support amongst Australian fathers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
The Sociability of Nations: International Comparisons in Bonding, Bridging and Linking Social Capital
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-03-2009
Emotion Work at the Frontline of STEM Teaching
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 17-11-2018
To move or not to move: mobility decision-making in the context of welfare conditionality and paid employment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-07-2019
Book Review: Alastair Greig, Frank Lewins, and Kevin White, Inequality in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 306, paperback $44.95
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2004
The strong, the weak and the meaningful
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 10-06-2019
DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-11-2018-0193
Abstract: Governments increasingly promote employment through social networks (whether via formal job networks or informal personal networks). However, they rarely account for how weak-tie “bridging” networks and strong-tie “bonding” networks differentially affect employment outcomes. Given criticism that (usually weak-tie bridging-focussed) formal job networks are overly focussed on finding entry-level (i.e. any) jobs, it is imperative to understand the impact of strong and weak ties on securing work with good conditions, or of meaning to the worker. Such links are poorly understood in the present literature. The paper aims to discuss this issue. This study uses national Australian survey data to assess whether support from close “friends” or distant “acquaintances” is associated with employment outcomes such as finding any work or “meaningful” work. The results show that relatively distant ties (close acquaintances) and emotional support from friends are each associated with reduced chances of being an unemployed/discouraged worker. Stronger ties (close friends) are associated with better chances of a having a “meaningful” job. More attention should be paid to tie strength dynamics and meaningful employment outcomes in the delivery of employment services. In particular, a role for active “close-tie brokers” in promoting networks should be investigated, instead of expecting ushing the unemployed to rely on either extremely close or distant connections. This is the first study to find a link between network type and meaningful work, which has important implications for the delivery of employment services.
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