Historical, cultural, and emotional meanings

Nielson, Harriet Bjerrum. “Historical, cultural, and emotional meanings”. Berkeley Center for Working Families Occasional Paper, Berkeley, CA: Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4111.
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Abstract

People use cultural concepts to organize and construct their social worlds. The question asked in this paper is how such constructions are infused with personal meaning and emotions from specific psychobiographies, and how this may facilitate or impede cultural and social changes, for instance, in the form of what one could call a certain inner psychological readiness for some discourses and not for others, for some structural changes and not for others. With examples from an on-going study of young girls in three generations the paper discusses the relations between historical context, discursive constructions, and emotional reality as they appear in texts of interviews. The interaction between these three levels of meaning is also illustrated by an analysis of the housewife of the 1950s.

Title
Historical, cultural, and emotional meanings: Interviews with young girls in three generations
Author
Nielson, Harriet Bjerrum
Center
Work and Family Research Network
Genre
working paper
Date Issued
2001
Publisher
Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley
Extent
18 p.
Series Title
Berkeley Center for Working Families Occasional Paper
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4111
Use Restrictions
Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/)

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