Sharon Elley
Biographic Data
| ID | 339939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Elley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Elley |
| SIGNATURE | ELLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9047-7659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Living Gender in Diverse Times
This Special Issue emerges from the editors’ project ‘Living Gender in Diverse Times: Young People’s Understandings and Practices of Gender in the Contemporary UK’, which was funded by the Economic
Hearing, Policing, and Using Gender Diversity
This article comprises a critical reflection on our experiences of recruiting participants and organising focus groups through institutional gatekeepers for research about young people and changing gendered landscapes. We show how reflections on the research process can give (inadvertent) substantive insight into how gender is interpreted by gatekeepers in institutions - that is, gender as only about or for certain young people; gender as somethi…
Relationships with opposite-gender peers
This article offers new empirical data examining how Chinese children construct their understandings of heterosexuality and opposite-gender relationships with school peers. Gender differences and separation between girls and boys are commonly argued to be a ‘gender rule’ central to children’s peer cultures at school. However, this is rarely explored from children’s perspectives in China’s relatively conservative school context. Drawing on rural p…
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change
Against a backdrop of increasing cultural visibility of people who identify across, between or beyond the categories of male and female, young people have been positioned within the wider social imaginary as radical trailblazers for a new, progressive gender order. This paper provides original insights that empirically ground and interrogate such claims. Drawing on findings from focus group interviews held with 136 young people (aged 16–24) in th…
Parents' Hopes and Expectations for Their Children's Future Occupations
Qualitative research has generated important insights into the intersection of social class, parental values and children's experiences of education and their role in the reproduction of inequalities. There has been less analytic engagement with parents' expectations and aspirations regarding their children's future occupations. Such expectations and aspirations have attracted much research and policy interest. Typically, analyses have been quant…
Concerted Cultivation? Parenting Values, Education and Class Diversity
The article presents an analysis of new empirical evidence on parenting values and orientations to children’s education and social class. A survey of parents with children involved in organized activities was undertaken, followed by a series of semi-structured interviews with a sample strategically identified with reference to both social class and subjective orientations to education. We argue that within recent literature there has been a tende…
Young Women, Class and Gendered Heterosexuality
This article reports findings from an ESRC-funded investigation into the interface between Sex and Relationship Education (hereafter SRE) and young people's experiences as mediated by the interconnections of class, gender and heterosexuality. The article focuses on how young women's gendered heterosexual practices, alongside educational aspirations, are given meaning by the values embedded in classed circumstances, social networks and relationshi…
If I Shut My Eyes, I Cannot Hear You
This paper examines parent-adolescent communication about sexuality in the family context. Of central concern is how parents and their adolescent children interact and communicate about sexual identities and practices. The paper focuses on kinship and familial relations between parents and adolescents, family dynamics and the processes impacting on young people's emergent sexual development and informal sex education in the home. The data is draw…
Concerted Cultivation? Parenting Values, Education and Class Diversity
The article presents an analysis of new empirical evidence on parenting values and orientations to children’s education and social class. A survey of parents with children involved in organized activities was undertaken, followed by a series of semi-structured interviews with a sample strategically identified with reference to both social class and subjective orientations to education. We argue that within recent literature there has been a tende…
Parents' Hopes and Expectations for Their Children's Future Occupations
Qualitative research has generated important insights into the intersection of social class, parental values and children's experiences of education and their role in the reproduction of inequalities. There has been less analytic engagement with parents' expectations and aspirations regarding their children's future occupations. Such expectations and aspirations have attracted much research and policy interest. Typically, analyses have been quant…
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change
Against a backdrop of increasing cultural visibility of people who identify across, between or beyond the categories of male and female, young people have been positioned within the wider social imaginary as radical trailblazers for a new, progressive gender order. This paper provides original insights that empirically ground and interrogate such claims. Drawing on findings from focus group interviews held with 136 young people (aged 16–24) in th…
Hearing, Policing, and Using Gender Diversity
This article comprises a critical reflection on our experiences of recruiting participants and organising focus groups through institutional gatekeepers for research about young people and changing gendered landscapes. We show how reflections on the research process can give (inadvertent) substantive insight into how gender is interpreted by gatekeepers in institutions - that is, gender as only about or for certain young people; gender as somethi…
Relationships with opposite-gender peers
This article offers new empirical data examining how Chinese children construct their understandings of heterosexuality and opposite-gender relationships with school peers. Gender differences and separation between girls and boys are commonly argued to be a ‘gender rule’ central to children’s peer cultures at school. However, this is rarely explored from children’s perspectives in China’s relatively conservative school context. Drawing on rural p…
Young Women, Class and Gendered Heterosexuality
This article reports findings from an ESRC-funded investigation into the interface between Sex and Relationship Education (hereafter SRE) and young people's experiences as mediated by the interconnections of class, gender and heterosexuality. The article focuses on how young women's gendered heterosexual practices, alongside educational aspirations, are given meaning by the values embedded in classed circumstances, social networks and relationshi…
If I Shut My Eyes, I Cannot Hear You
This paper examines parent-adolescent communication about sexuality in the family context. Of central concern is how parents and their adolescent children interact and communicate about sexual identities and practices. The paper focuses on kinship and familial relations between parents and adolescents, family dynamics and the processes impacting on young people's emergent sexual development and informal sex education in the home. The data is draw…
Concerted Cultivation? Parenting Values, Education and Class Diversity
The article presents an analysis of new empirical evidence on parenting values and orientations to children’s education and social class. A survey of parents with children involved in organized activities was undertaken, followed by a series of semi-structured interviews with a sample strategically identified with reference to both social class and subjective orientations to education. We argue that within recent literature there has been a tende…
Young Women, Class and Gendered Heterosexuality
This article reports findings from an ESRC-funded investigation into the interface between Sex and Relationship Education (hereafter SRE) and young people's experiences as mediated by the interconnections of class, gender and heterosexuality. The article focuses on how young women's gendered heterosexual practices, alongside educational aspirations, are given meaning by the values embedded in classed circumstances, social networks and relationshi…
Parents' Hopes and Expectations for Their Children's Future Occupations
Qualitative research has generated important insights into the intersection of social class, parental values and children's experiences of education and their role in the reproduction of inequalities. There has been less analytic engagement with parents' expectations and aspirations regarding their children's future occupations. Such expectations and aspirations have attracted much research and policy interest. Typically, analyses have been quant…
Relationships with opposite-gender peers
This article offers new empirical data examining how Chinese children construct their understandings of heterosexuality and opposite-gender relationships with school peers. Gender differences and separation between girls and boys are commonly argued to be a ‘gender rule’ central to children’s peer cultures at school. However, this is rarely explored from children’s perspectives in China’s relatively conservative school context. Drawing on rural p…
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change
Against a backdrop of increasing cultural visibility of people who identify across, between or beyond the categories of male and female, young people have been positioned within the wider social imaginary as radical trailblazers for a new, progressive gender order. This paper provides original insights that empirically ground and interrogate such claims. Drawing on findings from focus group interviews held with 136 young people (aged 16–24) in th…
Hearing, Policing, and Using Gender Diversity
This article comprises a critical reflection on our experiences of recruiting participants and organising focus groups through institutional gatekeepers for research about young people and changing gendered landscapes. We show how reflections on the research process can give (inadvertent) substantive insight into how gender is interpreted by gatekeepers in institutions - that is, gender as only about or for certain young people; gender as somethi…
Living Gender in Diverse Times
This Special Issue emerges from the editors’ project ‘Living Gender in Diverse Times: Young People’s Understandings and Practices of Gender in the Contemporary UK’, which was funded by the Economic
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Diversity (politics (2 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (2 works)