T Kremer-Sadlik
Biographic Data
| ID | 19961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Kremer-Sadlik |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Kremer-Sadlik |
| SIGNATURE | KREMER-SADLIK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3702-0668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The reflective eater
Talk labour and doing ‘being neoliberal mother’
This essay considers the gendered work of childrearing through Harvey Sacks’ (1992) concept of doing ‘being ordinary’. While doing ‘being ordinary’ under-girds social order, what constitutes ‘ordinary’ changes over time. Neoliberalism ushered in middle-class childrearing ideologies that encourage parents to share ever more intensive responsibilities; yet, mothers ordinarily continue to assume the lion’s portion. Central to the intensive parenting…
Ordinary Ethics and Reflexivity in Mundane Family Interactions
This article examines morality as it is experienced in the quotidian running of family life through an analysis of video-recorded spontaneous family interactions in Los Angeles, California. It argues that certain interactions afford the unfolding of morality experience through reflexive talk, in which speakers "bracket" the ongoing experience in order to critically reflect on it, thus making the ethical known. It demonstrates that often the under…
Eating fruits and vegetables. An ethnographic study of American and French family dinners
Investing in children's future
Drawing on two ethnographic studies of everyday middle-class family life in Los Angeles and Rome, this cross-cultural study examines parents' practices of and beliefs about involvement in children's education. It analyzes parents' interviews and naturalistic video recordings of parent-child interactions at home to access parents' perspectives on and ways of enacting involvement in school-related activities. Findings indicate that while the LA and…
How Postindustrial Families Talk
The nuclear family is both crucible and product of capitalism and modernity, carried forth and modified across generations through ordinary communicative and other social practices. Focusing on postindustrial middle-class families, this review analyzes key discursive practices that promote "the entrepreneurial child" who can display creative language and problem-solving skills requisite to enter the globalized knowledge class as adults. It also c…
Fatherhood and Youth Sports
Youth sports have been recognized as an arena for men to meet increased cultural expectations of being involved in their children's lives. Indeed, in contrast to other child care practices, many men are eager to take part in their children's organized sports. Drawing on an ethnographic study of middle-class families in the United States, this study examines how men juggle two contrasting cultural models of masculinity when fathering through sport…
Making Meaning of Everyday Practices
This article focuses on children's engagement in extracurricular activities from the perspective of middle-class parents in Rome, Italy, and Los Angeles, California. Analysis of parents' accounts captured in interviews and ethnographic fieldwork reveals that both sets of parents perceive activities as important for children's success. Yet Roman parents consider activities as part of "children's world," downplaying intense involvement and performa…
Discourses on Family Time
In this article, we examine U.S. and Italian parents' discourses on family time in parent-filled weekly activity charts and interviews with parents. Analysis indicates that in Los Angeles, California, parents talk about sheltering and isolating their nuclear family from the outside world and from everyday routine by creating special times and special activities for the nuclear family. In contrast, Roman parents' discourse allows for spontaneous t…
Lessons from sports
In the United States, children are encouraged to enroll in sports activities. Studies show that these activities are positively associated with reduced delinquent behavior and increased academic and social performance. Research using parents' reports in interviews and surveys shows that parents view extracurricular sports activities as an arena for socializing their children to important values and skills that go beyond the benefits of participat…
Introduction
Everyday Moments
American popular and academic discourses suggest that `quality time' - conceived as unstressed, uninterrupted special time with children - is important for family well-being. However, such discourses often engender stress and guilt among working parents, who have difficulty finding time for `quality time'. This article explores the concept of `quality time' in academic and popular literature (such as websites) and then draws on interviews and eth…
How Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome Respond to Questions
In light of a well-documented deficit in theory of mind found in high-functioning individuals with autism (HFA) and Asperger Syndrome (AS), this article explores HFA and AS children’s social-cognitive understanding of other people as reflected in their linguistic performance when answering mundane, everyday questions posed by their family members during dinnertime interaction. Ethnographic observations and video recordings of spontaneous interact…
Autism and the Social World
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Inclusion as Social Practice
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
Autism and the Social World
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Everyday Moments
American popular and academic discourses suggest that `quality time' - conceived as unstressed, uninterrupted special time with children - is important for family well-being. However, such discourses often engender stress and guilt among working parents, who have difficulty finding time for `quality time'. This article explores the concept of `quality time' in academic and popular literature (such as websites) and then draws on interviews and eth…
How Postindustrial Families Talk
The nuclear family is both crucible and product of capitalism and modernity, carried forth and modified across generations through ordinary communicative and other social practices. Focusing on postindustrial middle-class families, this review analyzes key discursive practices that promote "the entrepreneurial child" who can display creative language and problem-solving skills requisite to enter the globalized knowledge class as adults. It also c…
Introduction
Fatherhood and Youth Sports
Youth sports have been recognized as an arena for men to meet increased cultural expectations of being involved in their children's lives. Indeed, in contrast to other child care practices, many men are eager to take part in their children's organized sports. Drawing on an ethnographic study of middle-class families in the United States, this study examines how men juggle two contrasting cultural models of masculinity when fathering through sport…
Inclusion as Social Practice
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
Discourses on Family Time
In this article, we examine U.S. and Italian parents' discourses on family time in parent-filled weekly activity charts and interviews with parents. Analysis indicates that in Los Angeles, California, parents talk about sheltering and isolating their nuclear family from the outside world and from everyday routine by creating special times and special activities for the nuclear family. In contrast, Roman parents' discourse allows for spontaneous t…
Lessons from sports
In the United States, children are encouraged to enroll in sports activities. Studies show that these activities are positively associated with reduced delinquent behavior and increased academic and social performance. Research using parents' reports in interviews and surveys shows that parents view extracurricular sports activities as an arena for socializing their children to important values and skills that go beyond the benefits of participat…
Making Meaning of Everyday Practices
This article focuses on children's engagement in extracurricular activities from the perspective of middle-class parents in Rome, Italy, and Los Angeles, California. Analysis of parents' accounts captured in interviews and ethnographic fieldwork reveals that both sets of parents perceive activities as important for children's success. Yet Roman parents consider activities as part of "children's world," downplaying intense involvement and performa…
How Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome Respond to Questions
In light of a well-documented deficit in theory of mind found in high-functioning individuals with autism (HFA) and Asperger Syndrome (AS), this article explores HFA and AS children’s social-cognitive understanding of other people as reflected in their linguistic performance when answering mundane, everyday questions posed by their family members during dinnertime interaction. Ethnographic observations and video recordings of spontaneous interact…
Investing in children's future
Drawing on two ethnographic studies of everyday middle-class family life in Los Angeles and Rome, this cross-cultural study examines parents' practices of and beliefs about involvement in children's education. It analyzes parents' interviews and naturalistic video recordings of parent-child interactions at home to access parents' perspectives on and ways of enacting involvement in school-related activities. Findings indicate that while the LA and…
Ordinary Ethics and Reflexivity in Mundane Family Interactions
This article examines morality as it is experienced in the quotidian running of family life through an analysis of video-recorded spontaneous family interactions in Los Angeles, California. It argues that certain interactions afford the unfolding of morality experience through reflexive talk, in which speakers "bracket" the ongoing experience in order to critically reflect on it, thus making the ethical known. It demonstrates that often the under…
Eating fruits and vegetables. An ethnographic study of American and French family dinners
The reflective eater
Talk labour and doing ‘being neoliberal mother’
This essay considers the gendered work of childrearing through Harvey Sacks’ (1992) concept of doing ‘being ordinary’. While doing ‘being ordinary’ under-girds social order, what constitutes ‘ordinary’ changes over time. Neoliberalism ushered in middle-class childrearing ideologies that encourage parents to share ever more intensive responsibilities; yet, mothers ordinarily continue to assume the lion’s portion. Central to the intensive parenting…
Inclusion as Social Practice
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
How Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome Respond to Questions
In light of a well-documented deficit in theory of mind found in high-functioning individuals with autism (HFA) and Asperger Syndrome (AS), this article explores HFA and AS children’s social-cognitive understanding of other people as reflected in their linguistic performance when answering mundane, everyday questions posed by their family members during dinnertime interaction. Ethnographic observations and video recordings of spontaneous interact…
Autism and the Social World
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Lessons from sports
In the United States, children are encouraged to enroll in sports activities. Studies show that these activities are positively associated with reduced delinquent behavior and increased academic and social performance. Research using parents' reports in interviews and surveys shows that parents view extracurricular sports activities as an arena for socializing their children to important values and skills that go beyond the benefits of participat…
Introduction
Everyday Moments
American popular and academic discourses suggest that `quality time' - conceived as unstressed, uninterrupted special time with children - is important for family well-being. However, such discourses often engender stress and guilt among working parents, who have difficulty finding time for `quality time'. This article explores the concept of `quality time' in academic and popular literature (such as websites) and then draws on interviews and eth…
Discourses on Family Time
In this article, we examine U.S. and Italian parents' discourses on family time in parent-filled weekly activity charts and interviews with parents. Analysis indicates that in Los Angeles, California, parents talk about sheltering and isolating their nuclear family from the outside world and from everyday routine by creating special times and special activities for the nuclear family. In contrast, Roman parents' discourse allows for spontaneous t…
Making Meaning of Everyday Practices
This article focuses on children's engagement in extracurricular activities from the perspective of middle-class parents in Rome, Italy, and Los Angeles, California. Analysis of parents' accounts captured in interviews and ethnographic fieldwork reveals that both sets of parents perceive activities as important for children's success. Yet Roman parents consider activities as part of "children's world," downplaying intense involvement and performa…
Fatherhood and Youth Sports
Youth sports have been recognized as an arena for men to meet increased cultural expectations of being involved in their children's lives. Indeed, in contrast to other child care practices, many men are eager to take part in their children's organized sports. Drawing on an ethnographic study of middle-class families in the United States, this study examines how men juggle two contrasting cultural models of masculinity when fathering through sport…
Eating fruits and vegetables. An ethnographic study of American and French family dinners
Investing in children's future
Drawing on two ethnographic studies of everyday middle-class family life in Los Angeles and Rome, this cross-cultural study examines parents' practices of and beliefs about involvement in children's education. It analyzes parents' interviews and naturalistic video recordings of parent-child interactions at home to access parents' perspectives on and ways of enacting involvement in school-related activities. Findings indicate that while the LA and…
How Postindustrial Families Talk
The nuclear family is both crucible and product of capitalism and modernity, carried forth and modified across generations through ordinary communicative and other social practices. Focusing on postindustrial middle-class families, this review analyzes key discursive practices that promote "the entrepreneurial child" who can display creative language and problem-solving skills requisite to enter the globalized knowledge class as adults. It also c…
Ordinary Ethics and Reflexivity in Mundane Family Interactions
This article examines morality as it is experienced in the quotidian running of family life through an analysis of video-recorded spontaneous family interactions in Los Angeles, California. It argues that certain interactions afford the unfolding of morality experience through reflexive talk, in which speakers "bracket" the ongoing experience in order to critically reflect on it, thus making the ethical known. It demonstrates that often the under…
Talk labour and doing ‘being neoliberal mother’
This essay considers the gendered work of childrearing through Harvey Sacks’ (1992) concept of doing ‘being ordinary’. While doing ‘being ordinary’ under-girds social order, what constitutes ‘ordinary’ changes over time. Neoliberalism ushered in middle-class childrearing ideologies that encourage parents to share ever more intensive responsibilities; yet, mothers ordinarily continue to assume the lion’s portion. Central to the intensive parenting…
The reflective eater
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Autism (3 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (3 works)