Sarah H Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 109201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah H Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah H |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1326-3451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Parent Perspectives of Digital Media for Learning at Home
Children use digital media for a range of different reasons, including communication, play and learning. For some children, learning with digital media might involve structured activities, but for others, learning might occur using digital media as part of everyday life. This paper presents a study investigating parents' perspectives of how their children learn with technologies in home environments and how children's digital media ecologies are …
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom
This paper examines the outcomes of a disability awareness programme aimed at rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability (SEND) with children aged 8–9 years old. Designed specifically for this research study, the work was undertaken in a mainstream primary classroom in England. Although research has been undertaken in this area, it is limited and often focused on children's friendships. Drawing upon a disability studies in ed…
Young driver enforcement within graduated driver licensing systems: A scoping review
Lessons from history: Surviving old age during The Great Depression in the United States
Lineage Depth and Family Solidarity: Is There a Link Between Them
Using waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Family and Households, we explore whether membership in four- or higher- order-generation lineages is associated with any unique features of various dimensions of family solidarity. Competing scenarios were developed. The results reveal a disconnection between major dimensions of solidarity: Compared to being in three- or two-generation lineages, being in four-generation lineages is associated with hi…
Enhancing the Qualitative-Research Culture in Family Studies
Studies marked with an asterisk used mixed methods
Teaching and Learning Guide for: A Window on the ‘New’ Sociology of Childhood
Until recently, child development was accepted as the perspective through which children were understood and socialization the primary way in which sociologists thought about children. An increasing number of scholars now view childhood as socially constructed and children as actors in their own social worlds rather than simply as incomplete persons who are in the process of becoming adults. Courses using this perspective explore social construct…
A Window on the 'New' Sociology of Childhood
This article is intended as a window on the body of research that has come to be known as the 'new sociology of childhood'. To elucidate its underlying tenets I identify three major weaknesses that scholars in the 'new' sociology find in the 'old' conceptualization - socialization - and discuss implications for doing research on children and childhood. I suggest that scholars in the United States are on a somewhat different path than their collea…
Incidence of Four-Generation Family Lineages: Is Timing of Fertility or Mortality a Better Explanation
The majority of the adult population in the early 1990s was in three-generation lineages. The verdict is still out on whether population aging results in the wholesale verticalization of lineages. Social differentials in four-generation lineages in the early 1990s were mainly due to differences in the timing of fertility, rather than mortality
Global Aging and Challenges to Families
Crafting Qualitative Research Articles on Marriages and Families
This paper aims to assist those who do qualitative research in the field of marriage and family to reduce the number of rejections received in response to article submissions. Recurring shortcomings identified by reviewers and suggestions made to authors about revising papers are organized using headings traditionally used in a research article-introduction and literature review, method, results, and discussion. Considerations stemming from the f…
Social Support Resources of Poor Widowed Men during the Depression
Sources of social support for 24 widowed, “worthy” elderly men who were clients of a privately funded foundation in Detroit, Michigan, beginning in 1929 or 1930 until their deaths are described. Beginning with the application for admission, each man's file documents delivery of services in notes recorded each time he had contact with anyone in the foundation. Letters written by and about a man were also kept in his file as well as reports from ph…
The Widowed Self: The Older Woman's Journey through Widowhood
Meeting Filial Responsibilities in Brothers-Only Sibling Groups
Brothers' goals of maintaining or reestablishing independence for their parents matches most parents' wishes to be independent and not to burden their children. The brothers' goal of self-sufficiency for their parents precluded their wives being the sole providers of support to their parents
Caught in the Middle? Occupancy in Multiple Roles and Help to Parents in a National Probability Sample of Canadian Adults
This article considers, for a Canadian national probability sample of middle-aged women and men, the question of how typical is the experience of being "caught in the middle" between being the adult child of elderly parents and other roles. Three roles are examined: adult child, employed worker, and parent (and a refinement of the parent role, being a parent of a co-resident child). Occupancy in multiple roles is examined, followed by an investig…
Gender and the Division of Filial Responsibility between Lone Sisters and Their Brothers
Descriptions of and rationales for the division of responsibility for elderly parents by 50 sister-brother dyads in sibling groups that included only one sister were analyzed qualitatively to explore why provision of services is a gendered activity or at the very least appears to be. Three interrelated factors were identified: (a) Family members adopted cultural assumptions about what constituted gender-appropriate behavior; (b) the lone sister t…
Women, Work, and Coping: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Workplace Stress
Friendships between Women: A Critical Review
Reviews the book "Friendships Between Women: A Critical Review," by Pat O'Connor
Research on older families when more than one member responds: Producing and interpreting findings
Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community
The social life of older rural Americans is made up of relationships formed through kinship, their neighborhoods, and the organizations to which they belong. These social institutions are shaped by the ways people use them, and therefore change through time. In this precedent-setting study, John van Willigen uses the concept of social network to investigate life-course changes in the relationships of older people within the context of community h…
Single Women/Family Ties: Life Histories of Older Women
Introduction Working Class Single Women in Historical Perspective The Research Process Growing Up in Working Class Families Pathways in Young Adulthood Remaining Single and Becoming Married The Middle Years Taking Care of Families Growing Old as Single Women The Family Careers of Lifelong Single Women In Context
Gender Issues in Field Research
Daughters Who Care: Daughters Caring for Mothers at Home
With an increasing number of elderly people in the and a shift from central to community care, many women have taken on the responsibility of caring for ageing relatives. This text examines this phenomenon and asks how does this affect their lives and how can professionals help
The Environment for Aging: Interpersonal, Social, and Spatial Contexts
Male Kinship Ties: Bonds Between Adult Brothers
Shared Filial Responsibility: The Family as the Primary Caregiver
A Window on the 'New' Sociology of Childhood
This article is intended as a window on the body of research that has come to be known as the 'new sociology of childhood'. To elucidate its underlying tenets I identify three major weaknesses that scholars in the 'new' sociology find in the 'old' conceptualization - socialization - and discuss implications for doing research on children and childhood. I suggest that scholars in the United States are on a somewhat different path than their collea…
Contemporary Grandparenthood: A Systemic Transition
The transition to grandparenthood is presented as a stage in the family life cycle in which meaning comes from outside the boundaries of the original nuclear family unit through alliances initiated and produced by offspring. A demographic picture of grandparenthood is presented that shows that the transition is likely to occur in middle age and to overlap less with active parenting than was the case in the past, and that the ages of both grand-pa…
Crafting Qualitative Research Articles on Marriages and Families
This paper aims to assist those who do qualitative research in the field of marriage and family to reduce the number of rejections received in response to article submissions. Recurring shortcomings identified by reviewers and suggestions made to authors about revising papers are organized using headings traditionally used in a research article-introduction and literature review, method, results, and discussion. Considerations stemming from the f…
Gender and the Division of Filial Responsibility between Lone Sisters and Their Brothers
Descriptions of and rationales for the division of responsibility for elderly parents by 50 sister-brother dyads in sibling groups that included only one sister were analyzed qualitatively to explore why provision of services is a gendered activity or at the very least appears to be. Three interrelated factors were identified: (a) Family members adopted cultural assumptions about what constituted gender-appropriate behavior; (b) the lone sister t…
Meeting Filial Responsibilities in Brothers-Only Sibling Groups
Brothers' goals of maintaining or reestablishing independence for their parents matches most parents' wishes to be independent and not to burden their children. The brothers' goal of self-sufficiency for their parents precluded their wives being the sole providers of support to their parents
Caught in the Middle? Occupancy in Multiple Roles and Help to Parents in a National Probability Sample of Canadian Adults
This article considers, for a Canadian national probability sample of middle-aged women and men, the question of how typical is the experience of being "caught in the middle" between being the adult child of elderly parents and other roles. Three roles are examined: adult child, employed worker, and parent (and a refinement of the parent role, being a parent of a co-resident child). Occupancy in multiple roles is examined, followed by an investig…
Incidence of Four-Generation Family Lineages: Is Timing of Fertility or Mortality a Better Explanation
The majority of the adult population in the early 1990s was in three-generation lineages. The verdict is still out on whether population aging results in the wholesale verticalization of lineages. Social differentials in four-generation lineages in the early 1990s were mainly due to differences in the timing of fertility, rather than mortality
Definitions of Friendship and their Consequences in Old Age
In an attempt to gauge the quality of relationships, definitions of friendship were delineated through inductive analysis of transcripts of guided conversations with 30 men and 30 women aged 60 + who related their biographies using friendships as a constant referent. Two definitions of friendship were constructed, one which focuses on ‘friends as particular individuals’ and another which focuses on ‘friends as relationships’. Each is described in…
Male Kinship Ties: Bonds Between Adult Brothers
The burdens of parent care: A critical evaluation of recent findings
Enhancing the Qualitative-Research Culture in Family Studies
Studies marked with an asterisk used mixed methods
Lineage Depth and Family Solidarity: Is There a Link Between Them
Using waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Family and Households, we explore whether membership in four- or higher- order-generation lineages is associated with any unique features of various dimensions of family solidarity. Competing scenarios were developed. The results reveal a disconnection between major dimensions of solidarity: Compared to being in three- or two-generation lineages, being in four-generation lineages is associated with hi…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: A Window on the ‘New’ Sociology of Childhood
Until recently, child development was accepted as the perspective through which children were understood and socialization the primary way in which sociologists thought about children. An increasing number of scholars now view childhood as socially constructed and children as actors in their own social worlds rather than simply as incomplete persons who are in the process of becoming adults. Courses using this perspective explore social construct…
Research on older families when more than one member responds: Producing and interpreting findings
Widows and Dependent Wives: From Social Problem to Federal Program
Perceptions of fairness in the division of responsibility for old parents
Helping the Elderly: The Complementary Roles of Informal Networks and Formal Systems
New places - New identities: Settings in the lives of the old
Old Women and Identity Maintenance: Outwitting the Grim Reaper
Old Women and Identity Maintenance: Outwitting the Grim Reaper
New places - New identities: Settings in the lives of the old
The Social World of Old Women
Life After Youth: Female, Forty--What Next
Women as Widows: Support Systems
Contemporary Grandparenthood: A Systemic Transition
The transition to grandparenthood is presented as a stage in the family life cycle in which meaning comes from outside the boundaries of the original nuclear family unit through alliances initiated and produced by offspring. A demographic picture of grandparenthood is presented that shows that the transition is likely to occur in middle age and to overlap less with active parenting than was the case in the past, and that the ages of both grand-pa…
Definitions of Friendship and their Consequences in Old Age
In an attempt to gauge the quality of relationships, definitions of friendship were delineated through inductive analysis of transcripts of guided conversations with 30 men and 30 women aged 60 + who related their biographies using friendships as a constant referent. Two definitions of friendship were constructed, one which focuses on ‘friends as particular individuals’ and another which focuses on ‘friends as relationships’. Each is described in…
Helping the Elderly: The Complementary Roles of Informal Networks and Formal Systems
Friendships Through the Life Course: Oral Biographies in Old Age
Friendships in Biographical Context Friendship Styles Maintenance and Termination Friendships The Significance of Age and Gender to Friendship Through the Life Course Friendships in Old Age Biography and Friendship
Widows and Dependent Wives: From Social Problem to Federal Program
Perceptions of fairness in the division of responsibility for old parents
The burdens of parent care: A critical evaluation of recent findings
Shared Filial Responsibility: The Family as the Primary Caregiver
Daughters Who Care: Daughters Caring for Mothers at Home
With an increasing number of elderly people in the and a shift from central to community care, many women have taken on the responsibility of caring for ageing relatives. This text examines this phenomenon and asks how does this affect their lives and how can professionals help
The Environment for Aging: Interpersonal, Social, and Spatial Contexts
Male Kinship Ties: Bonds Between Adult Brothers
Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community
The social life of older rural Americans is made up of relationships formed through kinship, their neighborhoods, and the organizations to which they belong. These social institutions are shaped by the ways people use them, and therefore change through time. In this precedent-setting study, John van Willigen uses the concept of social network to investigate life-course changes in the relationships of older people within the context of community h…
Single Women/Family Ties: Life Histories of Older Women
Introduction Working Class Single Women in Historical Perspective The Research Process Growing Up in Working Class Families Pathways in Young Adulthood Remaining Single and Becoming Married The Middle Years Taking Care of Families Growing Old as Single Women The Family Careers of Lifelong Single Women In Context
Gender Issues in Field Research
Friendships between Women: A Critical Review
Reviews the book "Friendships Between Women: A Critical Review," by Pat O'Connor
Research on older families when more than one member responds: Producing and interpreting findings
Gender and the Division of Filial Responsibility between Lone Sisters and Their Brothers
Descriptions of and rationales for the division of responsibility for elderly parents by 50 sister-brother dyads in sibling groups that included only one sister were analyzed qualitatively to explore why provision of services is a gendered activity or at the very least appears to be. Three interrelated factors were identified: (a) Family members adopted cultural assumptions about what constituted gender-appropriate behavior; (b) the lone sister t…
Women, Work, and Coping: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Workplace Stress
Caught in the Middle? Occupancy in Multiple Roles and Help to Parents in a National Probability Sample of Canadian Adults
This article considers, for a Canadian national probability sample of middle-aged women and men, the question of how typical is the experience of being "caught in the middle" between being the adult child of elderly parents and other roles. Three roles are examined: adult child, employed worker, and parent (and a refinement of the parent role, being a parent of a co-resident child). Occupancy in multiple roles is examined, followed by an investig…
Meeting Filial Responsibilities in Brothers-Only Sibling Groups
Brothers' goals of maintaining or reestablishing independence for their parents matches most parents' wishes to be independent and not to burden their children. The brothers' goal of self-sufficiency for their parents precluded their wives being the sole providers of support to their parents
Psychology (33 works) · Sociology (30 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (17 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Geography (7 works)