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Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research Project
Anne Woollett,Ann Oakley +1 more
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The authors describe the poverty of research from knowledge to understanding in a randomized controlled trial with women at risk of the randomized controlled trials, and the results showed that women were more likely to be at risk than men.Abstract:
Social origins \"A Friend a Day Keeps the Doctor Away\" - social support and health sickness in Salonica and other stories Eve in the garden of health research a bite of the apple who's afraid of the randomized controlled trial \"One of Mummy's Ladies\" four women \"Real\" results women at risk the poverty of research from knowledge to understanding. Appendices: study guidelines study publications.read more
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A useful extension of Bourdieu’s conceptual framework?: emotional capital as a way of understanding mothers’ involvement in their children’s education?
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Gender, Methodology and People's Ways of Knowing: Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science:
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Social capital and social support on the web: the case of an internet mother site
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Becoming a mother — an analysis of women's experience of early motherhood
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Theorising inequalities in health : the place of lay knowledge.
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A useful extension of Bourdieu’s conceptual framework?: emotional capital as a way of understanding mothers’ involvement in their children’s education?
TL;DR: In this article, a study of mothers' involvement in their children's primary schooling was carried out to explore some of the class and gender processes embedded in parental involvement in education and the relationship between educational success, emotional capital and emotional wellbeing.
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Gender, Methodology and People's Ways of Knowing: Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science:
TL;DR: The authors examines the character of the debate about ''quantitative'' and ''qualitative'' methods in feminist social science and argues in favour of rehabilitating quantitative methods and integrating a range of methods in the task of creating an emancipatory social science.
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Gendering Bourdieu's concepts of capitals? Emotional capital, women and social class
TL;DR: The concept of emotional capital was introduced by Bourdieu as discussed by the authors, who argued that women are more particularly responsible for maintaining relationships in their relationships with their children, and explored the extent to which emotional capital may be understood as a specifically gendered capital, in particular by examining the impact of social class on gendered notions of emotion capital.
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Social capital and social support on the web: the case of an internet mother site
TL;DR: Three main types of communication emerge from an analysis of a mothering board on a parent's website: emotional support, instrumental support--both formal and informal, and community building/protection, all of which contribute to the creation and maintenance of social capital.
Journal ArticleDOI
Becoming a mother — an analysis of women's experience of early motherhood
TL;DR: A qualitative study conducted by midwife researchers into women's experience of new motherhood provides a conceptualization of early motherhood enabling the development of strategies for midwives, nurses and other helping women negotiate this challenge.