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Wednesday 15 April 2015 09:00 - 10:30
PAPER SESSION 1
as it relates to social identity, developed in critical race and feminist works (Hunter 2010, Tate 2013). Bringing these
sets of debates together unpicks the enactment and effects of shame in modern welfare practice.
Hoggett, P. (2001) Agency, Rationality and Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, 30: 37-56
Hoggett, P. (2006) Conflict, ambivalence and the contested purpose of public organisations, Human Relations, 59 (2).
pp. 175-194
Hunter S. (2010) 'What a White Shame: White women's love and white men's anguish in welfare work', Social Politics:
Studies in Gender, State and Society.
Tate S. A (2013) 'The Performativity of Black Beauty Shame in Jamaica and its diaspora: Problematising and
transforming beauty iconicities', Beauty, Race and Feminist Theory. 14.2
Lifecourse
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Patterns of Lifecourse Participation: Insights from the National Child Development Study Cohort
Parry, J., Brookfield, K., Bolton, V.
(University of Southampton)
Data from a mixed methods study of the 1958 NCDS cohort is used to explore distinctive long term patterns of
participation and volunteering (consistent participators, non-participants, and high-intensity participants). We explore
how the changes in questioning on social participation within the NCDS complicate the task of mapping long term
patterns of participation, and use the recent qualitative Social and Participation Survey with the Cohort to make sense
of these tensions. Our mixed methods are employed to provide insight into why and how individuals participate in very
different ways in the light of unexpected similar demographic characteristics for the sample groups, as well as how this
participation fluctuates over the lifecourse. So the process and expectations involved in taking part in the NCDS has
changed over the 50 years in which the Cohort have been members, as the same time as their relationship to it has
evolved in ways that reflect their participation credentials. We reflect on the concurrent dynamics of being a
participator (or not) while also being a member of a prominent research cohort.
After Care: Child Saving and Its Lifecourse Impacts in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century England
Cox, P., Godfrey, B., Shore, H., Alker, Z.
(University of Essex)
The After Care project (funded by Leverhulme) is analysing the lifecourse outcomes of 600+ children admitted to five
child-saving institutions in the northwest of England from the 1870s to the 1910s. The institutions include industrial
and reformatory schools (Bradwall Reformatory, Stockport Industrial School and a notorious naval training ship, the
Akbar) admitting statutory referrals via the courts, and two ordinary children's homes that received voluntary referrals
directly from families and charities. The children themselves, almost all of whom were multiply deprived, arrived at
these various institutions from local but also much more distant family homes. The paper will present findings based
on a mixed methods analysis (from biographical to multivariate analysis) of 600+ individual 'life grids' derived from
archival and digitised data. The life grids allow us to build up, for the first time, a detailed picture of many of these
children's lives 'after care', following them through neighbourhoods, jobs, relationships and sometimes re-offending,
and across their adolescence, adulthood and old age.
The project contributes to lifecourse research in sociology and criminology by adding a valuable historical dimension.
Its methods are modelled on those developed by Godfrey, Cox and Farrall (2007 and 2010) and, like that earlier work,
it offers an important opportunity to create exciting interdisciplinary approaches to the lifecourse.
Time and the Life Course: Perspectives from Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Neale, B.
(University of Leeds)
This paper explores ways to conceptualise and study the lifecourse, drawing on perspectives from Qualitative
Longitudinal (QL) Research. Contrasting approaches to lifecourse research are outlined, and ways of linking lived
experiences with broader structural processes are explored, in a context where much life course research is currently
under theorised. The paper considers how temporality can be conceptualised and investigated, moving beyond clock
and calendar time to reveal the fluid, multidimensional and recursive aspects of time. Varied ways of 'slicing' time are
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