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POSTER PRESENTATIONS
SALTIRE CENTRE
Posters will be displayed in the Saltire Centre for the duration of the conference. Presenters will be available during
the scheduled timeslot on Thursday 16 April 2015, 15:00-15:30 to discuss their work. Additional times may be
indicated on individual posters.
POSTER PRESENTATION PRIZE
A prize will be awarded for the poster which best communicates its aims, methods, findings and conclusions. All
delegates are encouraged to cast a vote during the Thursday poster session. Voting slips can be found with the
delegate name badges. The winners will be announced on Thursday evening at the publishers’ reception.
POSTER 1
Life Course: Generation, Life Path and Sociability
Bassit, A.Z.
(University of São Paulo)
This paper deals with concepts of generation, path and sociability under the perspective of the life course paradigm.
Discusses the importance of these concepts for understanding of human experience, and presented suggestions for
possible methodological articulations to studies on the lives of people in contemporary, especially for those dealing
with issues about aging, sexuality, among others dealing the relationship between body and culture. The life course
paradigm is presented and analysed from their scope and limits like a methodological tool. Proposed an inclusion of
the concepts of sociability and life trajectories, complementing the concepts of generation, generational cohorts and
life stories.
POSTER 2
A Suitable Match: A Study of Class in Same-gender Relationships
Beecham, N.
(London School of Economics and Political Science)
There has been increasing sociological interest in the relevance of class in how we make, enact and sustain intimate
relationships. Looking in particular at how relationships tend to be rationally founded in shared values, lifestyles and
tastes, which are themselves rooted in classed practices. However, existing research has exclusively focused on how
class provides a framework for choice within the heterosexual relationship. Using in-depth interview data this research
investigates how class was managed within the site of the same-gender relationship. An estimated 5-7% of people in
the UK identify Lesbian, Gay and Bi, this research paper looks at how a reduced number of potential partners enables
more cross-class meetings and subsequently the potential for more cross-class relationships to form. Utilising the
work of Pierre Bourdieu this research explores how partners were met, chosen and how, where difference existed, this
was navigated. Whilst there was a significant number of cross-class relationships found within this research these
tended to be between older same-gender couples, and there was evidence to suggest that with great social
acceptance and legitimation of same-gender relationships more class based methods of distinction were being
deployed by younger participants when selecting a potential partner.
POSTER 3
Graduate Trajectories in the Labour Market
Bentley, L.
(University of the West of England)
This poster is based on my current PhD research which, through conducting in-depth qualitative interviews with recent
graduates from the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, explores graduate transitions into
the labour market in a time of austerity. Working as part of the Paired Peers Research Project my research draws on
data from graduates from two Higher Education institutions within the same city, one a Russell Group University and
the other a post-1992 University. In light of the recent Milburn Report (2014) I seek to identify whether social class has
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