Janet Holland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Holland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Holland |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London South Bank University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 767 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Vignette Research: Research Methods
Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce t…
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts
What Really Counts? was a sound art installation created in 2019 through a collaboration between a sociologist and a multidisciplinary artist, working with in-depth interviews with young men recorded as part of a British feminist social research project in 1990, exploring sexualities and the threat of HIV/AIDS. In this article, we describe the evolution and staging of the sound art installation project, situating it within interdisciplinary liter…
Qualitative Interviewing: Research Methods
First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Qualitative Interviewing?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book is a step-by-step guide for new and experienced social science researchers looking to use interviews in their projects. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland explain a range of interview types and practices, providing real research examples as informative illu…
Vocal Cord Dysfunction als Differenzialdiagnose der akuten Dyspnoe
Based on a large-scale qualitative longitudinal study of the life course conducted in the UK (Timescapes Study), this unique collection reveals close-up – and in their own words – the experiences of children and young people, parents, and older generations. The participants lives and times are explored through multiple accounts of their changing trajectories. Collectively, the contributions examine family and generational relationships in all the…
Understanding Families Over Time: Research and Policy
Drawing on research from the Timescapes Study, this volume discusses the life chances and experiences of children and young people, parents and older generations. A unique qualitative longitudinal stu
Implications of Shifting Technology in Education
What is Qualitative Interviewing?
This book makes clear the procedures and practices surrounding qualitative interviewing. Qualitative interviews are a critical part of qualitative research, but understandings of what it means to carry out interviews have shifted over time. This book provides the latest studies and practical guidance on how to cater for a broad range of research. It shows researchers and students how to begin with key questions and theories and the best interview…
Storying qualitative longitudinal research: Sequence, Voice and Motif
We suggest here that the analysis, interpretation and representation of qualitative longitudinal (QL) data requires methodological innovation leading to new forms of representation that elude the usual temporality of writing research. To illustrate this argument, we outline a case history method-in-process developed to condense intensive volumes of biographical data generated over 12 years, and deal with the intersection of different timescapes t…
Researching lives through time: An introduction to the Timescapes approach
Gaining Perspective on Choice and Fate
The idea of epiphanies, turning points and critical biographical moments is a central analytic category of life history research in general, and of youth studies in particular. In this paper we explore how we have engaged with ideas of ‘fatefulness’ (Giddens 1991) and biographical ‘choice’ in a longitudinal qualitative study of young people's transitions to adulthood, tracing the employment of theoretical and analytical devices through time to as…
Young people and social capital: Uses and abuses
The concept of social capital has gained wide currency in recent years in sociology and related areas, including youth studies. Politicians and policy makers have eagerly taken it up, seeing building and enhancing social capital as a solution for difficult policy issues, and it has been at the core of Third Way politics. This article provides a general review of social capital, critically examining issues raised by the academic and political use …
Temporal, spatial and embodied relations in the teacher's day at school
In this paper, we draw on a cross-cultural ethnographic study conducted in two secondary schools in Helsinki (Finland), and two in London (UK). In our analysis of everyday life in schools, space is not merely a backdrop to activities that take place, it also shapes processes and activities, and spatial relations are simultaneously temporal. Here, we follow teachers’ daily time-space paths in schools, from corridors to staff rooms to classrooms an…
Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People
The theoretical fathers of social capital (Putnam, Coleman and Bourdieu) are criticised for seeing children as passive recipients of parental social capital rather than active producers, and recent literature and debate has attempted to correct this earlier imbalance. We contribute to this work by using social capital as a lens through which to explore transitions, networks and communities in the lives of children and young people. Drawing on thr…
Emotions and Research
This article discusses emotions and research from a number of perspectives to unearth the ways that emotions are implicated in the research process. The emergence of the Sociology of the Emotions urges rethinking of the relation between knowledge and emotion, arguing that emotion is necessary for knowledge. We discuss memory work in a study of emotion, and the psychosocial approach of Walkerdine and her colleagues, concerned with their own subjec…
Making the Long View: Perspectives on Context from a Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) Study
Questions of context and reflexivity have been central to recent debates about the archiving and re-use of qualitative data but these questions have been understood in different ways. In this paper, we suggest that our experiences of attempting to analyse, interpret, write-up and, more recently, archive the (prospective and retrospective) biographical data we have collected over the decade 1996–2006, can shed useful light on these questions. Firs…
Thanks for the memory: Memory Books as a Methodological Resource in Biographical Research
The article describes the evolution of the 'memory book', an innovative method for biographical research. In the first part of the article, we explain the origins of the method, tracing our own journey from conducting memory work as a research group to the creation of memory books as a method to be used alongside interviews in a longitudinal qualitative study of young people's transitions to adulthood. In the second part of the article, we map th…
Gazing with intent: Ethnographic Practice in Classrooms
In this methodological article we discuss ways in which researchers observe girls and boys in the classroom. The article is based on a comparative cross-cultural, collective ethnographic study, 'Citizenship, Difference and Marginality in Schools: With Special Reference to Gender', which was conducted in secondary schools in Helsinki and London. When we analysed our own actions, we realized that educational researchers - like teachers - tend to co…
The Male in the Head: Young People, Heterosexuality and Power
This book is the fruit of ten years' research, and presents combined findings from the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP) and the smallerscale Men, Risk and AIDS Project (MRAP). These projects were based on interviews with young people between the ages of 16 and 21, conducted in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the authors explain in their opening chapter, the initial impetus for the research was a concern with HIV and safer sex, par…
Imagining Gendered Adulthood: Anxiety, Ambivalence, Avoidance and Anticipation
In this article, the authors draw on two qualitative, longitudinal studies of young people’s transitions to adulthood and how they construct these transitions over time in social, cultural and material terms. The authors focus on the hopes, anxieties and imagined futures of young women. They discuss the individualization thesis, and the contradiction for female individualization between expectations of equality and the reality of inequality betwe…
Inventing Adulthoods: A Biographical Approach to Understanding Youth Citizenship
Traditionally adulthood and citizenship have been synonymous. Yet adulthood is changing. In this paper we explore how young people's evolving understandings of adulthood may contribute towards an understanding of citizenship within the broader context of increasingly extended and fragmented transitions. The paper draws on a unique qualitative longitudinal data set in which 100 young people, from contrasting social backgrounds in the United Kingdo…
Families, Intimacy and Social Capital
Three major emphases in interpretations of the state of contemporary intimate relationships can be broadly characterised. These are (i) breakdown and demoralisation; (ii) individualisation and democratisation; and (iii) a recognition of elements of continuity, particularly around power relations. We consider these three positions, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive, relating them to key themes of identities and values, networks and trus…
Hindsight, foresight and insight: The challenges of longitudinal qualitative research
This paper describes a UK based longitudinal qualitative study following approximately 100 young people over 9 years. It provides an overview of the research design, methods of data collection and analysis as well as reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies employed. We focus on the value of a devolved research design, complementary cross-section and temporal analytic approaches and the effects of being involved in a longitudi…
Multiple perspectives on the 'family' lives of young people: Methodological and theoretical issues in case study research
The use of interviews from related individuals has become increasingly common in social research. This is particularly apparent in the area of family sociology, which has previously been criticized for relying on research of family lives based solely on interviews with mothers. Obtaining such accounts can raise postmodern ontological and epistemological themes of multiple perspectives and multiple realities, but there has been little explicit dis…
Feminist Methodology
"Who would be a feminist now? Contemporary 'political realism' suggests that the essentials of the battle have already been won, and the current generation of women entering University is used to seeing feminism presented as 'old fashioned', 'extreme' and 'unrealistic'. Challenging such assumptions, this important new book argues for the value of empirical investigations of gendered life, and brings together the theoretical, political and practic…
Feminist Methodology: Challenges and Choices
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Critical Moments: Choice, Chance and Opportunity in Young People's Narratives of Transition
The 'Inventing Adulthoods' study seeks to document transitions to adulthood reported by over 100 young people living in five contrasting communities in the UK over a five-year period. A principal aim of the study is to identify 'critical moments' in young people's biographies and to explore how these moments are implicated in processes of social inclusion and exclusion. This article reports on an analysis of the first of three rounds of one-to-on…
Hindsight, foresight and insight: The challenges of longitudinal qualitative research
This paper describes a UK based longitudinal qualitative study following approximately 100 young people over 9 years. It provides an overview of the research design, methods of data collection and analysis as well as reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies employed. We focus on the value of a devolved research design, complementary cross-section and temporal analytic approaches and the effects of being involved in a longitudi…
Emotions and Research
This article discusses emotions and research from a number of perspectives to unearth the ways that emotions are implicated in the research process. The emergence of the Sociology of the Emotions urges rethinking of the relation between knowledge and emotion, arguing that emotion is necessary for knowledge. We discuss memory work in a study of emotion, and the psychosocial approach of Walkerdine and her colleagues, concerned with their own subjec…
Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People
The theoretical fathers of social capital (Putnam, Coleman and Bourdieu) are criticised for seeing children as passive recipients of parental social capital rather than active producers, and recent literature and debate has attempted to correct this earlier imbalance. We contribute to this work by using social capital as a lens through which to explore transitions, networks and communities in the lives of children and young people. Drawing on thr…
Sex, gender and power: Young women's sexuality in the shadow of Aids
While the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS amongst non drug injecting heterosexuals is currently low in the UK, epidemiological evidence suggests that this situation may be short lived. The sexual practices of young heterosexuals will then be crucial in determining the extent of the epidemic. Drawing on feminist theory, we argue that if we are to understand young people's sexual relationships we must attend to the power relations within which …
Imagined Adulthood: Resources, plans and contradictions
In this paper we illustrate the contradictory consequences of female individualization by exploring young people’s imagined futures, drawing on an analysis of ‘lifelines’ collected as part of an ongoing longitudinal qualitative study of young people’s transitions to adulthood. We discuss the method and compare lifelines across the sample. We suggest that while there are areas of consensus (such as the hetero-normative goal of marriage and childre…
Imagining Gendered Adulthood: Anxiety, Ambivalence, Avoidance and Anticipation
In this article, the authors draw on two qualitative, longitudinal studies of young people’s transitions to adulthood and how they construct these transitions over time in social, cultural and material terms. The authors focus on the hopes, anxieties and imagined futures of young women. They discuss the individualization thesis, and the contradiction for female individualization between expectations of equality and the reality of inequality betwe…
Researching lives through time: An introduction to the Timescapes approach
Inventing Adulthoods: A Biographical Approach to Understanding Youth Citizenship
Traditionally adulthood and citizenship have been synonymous. Yet adulthood is changing. In this paper we explore how young people's evolving understandings of adulthood may contribute towards an understanding of citizenship within the broader context of increasingly extended and fragmented transitions. The paper draws on a unique qualitative longitudinal data set in which 100 young people, from contrasting social backgrounds in the United Kingdo…
Gaining Perspective on Choice and Fate
The idea of epiphanies, turning points and critical biographical moments is a central analytic category of life history research in general, and of youth studies in particular. In this paper we explore how we have engaged with ideas of ‘fatefulness’ (Giddens 1991) and biographical ‘choice’ in a longitudinal qualitative study of young people's transitions to adulthood, tracing the employment of theoretical and analytical devices through time to as…
Power and Desire: The Embodiment of Female Sexuality
In recent years the study of the body has blossomed from a neglected area of social science to a focus of attention from feminists and others (e.g., Turner, 1984; Featherstone etal. 1991, Sawicki, 1991; Shilling, 1991; Scott and Morgan, 1993). Recently, feminists have been attracted to the work of Foucault and others which emphasizes that although physical bodies exist, bodies are primarily social constructions (e.g., Bordo, 1988). Looking on the…
Thanks for the memory: Memory Books as a Methodological Resource in Biographical Research
The article describes the evolution of the 'memory book', an innovative method for biographical research. In the first part of the article, we explain the origins of the method, tracing our own journey from conducting memory work as a research group to the creation of memory books as a method to be used alongside interviews in a longitudinal qualitative study of young people's transitions to adulthood. In the second part of the article, we map th…
Multiple perspectives on the 'family' lives of young people: Methodological and theoretical issues in case study research
The use of interviews from related individuals has become increasingly common in social research. This is particularly apparent in the area of family sociology, which has previously been criticized for relying on research of family lives based solely on interviews with mothers. Obtaining such accounts can raise postmodern ontological and epistemological themes of multiple perspectives and multiple realities, but there has been little explicit dis…
Pleasure, Pressure and Power: Some Contradictions of Gendered Sexuality
The AIDS epidemic has encouraged public discussion of safer sex, but heterosexual young women have to negotiate sexual relationships with men in situations in which sex is defined largely in terms of men's needs and which lack notions of a positive female sexuality or female desires. Analysis of data from the Women, Risk and AIDS Project is interpreted to show both the range of pressures on young women to engage in sexual practices which are risk…
Storying qualitative longitudinal research: Sequence, Voice and Motif
We suggest here that the analysis, interpretation and representation of qualitative longitudinal (QL) data requires methodological innovation leading to new forms of representation that elude the usual temporality of writing research. To illustrate this argument, we outline a case history method-in-process developed to condense intensive volumes of biographical data generated over 12 years, and deal with the intersection of different timescapes t…
Young people and social capital: Uses and abuses
The concept of social capital has gained wide currency in recent years in sociology and related areas, including youth studies. Politicians and policy makers have eagerly taken it up, seeing building and enhancing social capital as a solution for difficult policy issues, and it has been at the core of Third Way politics. This article provides a general review of social capital, critically examining issues raised by the academic and political use …
Social Class and Changes in Orientation to Meaning
In continuation of studies into children's speech in different contexts undertaken within the framework of Bernstein's sociolinguistic theory, this work investigates differences in orientation to meaning by looking at classification strategies employed by eight year olds in dealing with familiar materials in the context of an extended interview. Social class differences are found in terms of the basic theoretical distinction between relatively co…
Making the Long View: Perspectives on Context from a Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) Study
Questions of context and reflexivity have been central to recent debates about the archiving and re-use of qualitative data but these questions have been understood in different ways. In this paper, we suggest that our experiences of attempting to analyse, interpret, write-up and, more recently, archive the (prospective and retrospective) biographical data we have collected over the decade 1996–2006, can shed useful light on these questions. Firs…
Gazing with intent: Ethnographic Practice in Classrooms
In this methodological article we discuss ways in which researchers observe girls and boys in the classroom. The article is based on a comparative cross-cultural, collective ethnographic study, 'Citizenship, Difference and Marginality in Schools: With Special Reference to Gender', which was conducted in secondary schools in Helsinki and London. When we analysed our own actions, we realized that educational researchers - like teachers - tend to co…
Families, Intimacy and Social Capital
Three major emphases in interpretations of the state of contemporary intimate relationships can be broadly characterised. These are (i) breakdown and demoralisation; (ii) individualisation and democratisation; and (iii) a recognition of elements of continuity, particularly around power relations. We consider these three positions, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive, relating them to key themes of identities and values, networks and trus…
Managing Risk and Experiencing Danger: Tensions between government Aids education policy and young women's sexuality
Much of the early panic relating to AIDS has focused on non‐heterosexual sexualities and the identification of high risk groups. It can be argued that fear of the spread of HIV and AIDS into the heterosexual population was the spur for the development of government policy in this area. The protection of the population in general depends on changes in high risk sexual practices, and the part played in these changes by young women has been given sc…
Aids: From Panic Stations to Power Relations Sociological Perspectives and Problems
Le mâle dans la tête: Réputation Sexuelle, Genre Et Pouvoir
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Temporal, spatial and embodied relations in the teacher's day at school
In this paper, we draw on a cross-cultural ethnographic study conducted in two secondary schools in Helsinki (Finland), and two in London (UK). In our analysis of everyday life in schools, space is not merely a backdrop to activities that take place, it also shapes processes and activities, and spatial relations are simultaneously temporal. Here, we follow teachers’ daily time-space paths in schools, from corridors to staff rooms to classrooms an…
Girls and Occupational Choice: Anti‐sexism in action in a curriculum development project
This paper is an interim report on the Girls and Occupational Choice Project at the Institute of Education, London. The research design and methods used are briefly described but the paper focuses on the action research component of this project, and discusses anti‐sexist curriculum development and implementation in a number of schools. The emphasis is on methodological and political issues which arise in doing anti‐sexist action research in the …
Social Class and Changes in Orientation to Meaning
In continuation of studies into children's speech in different contexts undertaken within the framework of Bernstein's sociolinguistic theory, this work investigates differences in orientation to meaning by looking at classification strategies employed by eight year olds in dealing with familiar materials in the context of an extended interview. Social class differences are found in terms of the basic theoretical distinction between relatively co…
Girls and Occupational Choice: Anti‐sexism in action in a curriculum development project
This paper is an interim report on the Girls and Occupational Choice Project at the Institute of Education, London. The research design and methods used are briefly described but the paper focuses on the action research component of this project, and discusses anti‐sexist curriculum development and implementation in a number of schools. The emphasis is on methodological and political issues which arise in doing anti‐sexist action research in the …
Working Women: An International Survey
Managing Risk and Experiencing Danger: Tensions between government Aids education policy and young women's sexuality
Much of the early panic relating to AIDS has focused on non‐heterosexual sexualities and the identification of high risk groups. It can be argued that fear of the spread of HIV and AIDS into the heterosexual population was the spur for the development of government policy in this area. The protection of the population in general depends on changes in high risk sexual practices, and the part played in these changes by young women has been given sc…
Aids: From Panic Stations to Power Relations Sociological Perspectives and Problems
Sex, gender and power: Young women's sexuality in the shadow of Aids
While the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS amongst non drug injecting heterosexuals is currently low in the UK, epidemiological evidence suggests that this situation may be short lived. The sexual practices of young heterosexuals will then be crucial in determining the extent of the epidemic. Drawing on feminist theory, we argue that if we are to understand young people's sexual relationships we must attend to the power relations within which …
Equal Opportunities in the New Era
Risk, power and the possibility of pleasure: Young women and safer sex
This paper draws on the work of the Women Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP) which was undertaken by the authors working collectively. It reports on data from a sociological study of the sexual beliefs and practices of two samples each of 75 young women between 16 and 21 in the cities of London and Manchester in the UK. The period of data collection was 1988-1990. The paper sets out the methods used by the WRAP team and locates this research process wi…
Pleasure, Pressure and Power: Some Contradictions of Gendered Sexuality
The AIDS epidemic has encouraged public discussion of safer sex, but heterosexual young women have to negotiate sexual relationships with men in situations in which sex is defined largely in terms of men's needs and which lack notions of a positive female sexuality or female desires. Analysis of data from the Women, Risk and AIDS Project is interpreted to show both the range of pressures on young women to engage in sexual practices which are risk…
Power and Desire: The Embodiment of Female Sexuality
In recent years the study of the body has blossomed from a neglected area of social science to a focus of attention from feminists and others (e.g., Turner, 1984; Featherstone etal. 1991, Sawicki, 1991; Shilling, 1991; Scott and Morgan, 1993). Recently, feminists have been attracted to the work of Foucault and others which emphasizes that although physical bodies exist, bodies are primarily social constructions (e.g., Bordo, 1988). Looking on the…
Sexual Cultures: Communities, Values and Intimacy
Tripping over Experience: Some Problems in Feminist Epistemology
1This is a shortened and revised version of a paper presented to the conference on Transformations: thinking through feminism Institute of Women's Studies, University of Lancaster, July 1997
Deconstructing virginity - young people's accounts of first sex
In their first (hetero)sexual experience, young people are enticed into the gendered practices, meanings and power relations of heterosexuality. This paper draws on findings from two primarily qualitative studies of young people's sexual practices and understandings: the Women, Risk and AIDS Project and the Men, Risk and AIDS Project. The paper suggest that for young men, first (hetero)sex is an empowering moment through which agency and identity…
Making Spaces: Citizenship and Difference in Schools
This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the offi
Catching on, wising up and learning from your mistakes: Young people's accounts of moral development
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Ethnographic Research in Educational Settings
Then and now: Revisiting old haunts
Then and now: Revisiting old haunts
Feminist Methodology
"Who would be a feminist now? Contemporary 'political realism' suggests that the essentials of the battle have already been won, and the current generation of women entering University is used to seeing feminism presented as 'old fashioned', 'extreme' and 'unrealistic'. Challenging such assumptions, this important new book argues for the value of empirical investigations of gendered life, and brings together the theoretical, political and practic…
Feminist Methodology: Challenges and Choices
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Young people, social change and the negotiation of moral authority
This paper presents some of the main findings of the study ‘Youth values: identity, diversity and social change’, focusing on the ways in which young people aged between 11 and 16 negotiate moral authority. It begins by discussing young people's perceptions of social change, identifying narratives of both progress and decline. The structure of young people's values are then briefly described, including differences relating to gender, location, so…
Imagined Adulthood: Resources, plans and contradictions
In this paper we illustrate the contradictory consequences of female individualization by exploring young people’s imagined futures, drawing on an analysis of ‘lifelines’ collected as part of an ongoing longitudinal qualitative study of young people’s transitions to adulthood. We discuss the method and compare lifelines across the sample. We suggest that while there are areas of consensus (such as the hetero-normative goal of marriage and childre…
Le mâle dans la tête: Réputation Sexuelle, Genre Et Pouvoir
du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Critical Moments: Choice, Chance and Opportunity in Young People's Narratives of Transition
The 'Inventing Adulthoods' study seeks to document transitions to adulthood reported by over 100 young people living in five contrasting communities in the UK over a five-year period. A principal aim of the study is to identify 'critical moments' in young people's biographies and to explore how these moments are implicated in processes of social inclusion and exclusion. This article reports on an analysis of the first of three rounds of one-to-on…
Families, Intimacy and Social Capital
Three major emphases in interpretations of the state of contemporary intimate relationships can be broadly characterised. These are (i) breakdown and demoralisation; (ii) individualisation and democratisation; and (iii) a recognition of elements of continuity, particularly around power relations. We consider these three positions, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive, relating them to key themes of identities and values, networks and trus…
Sociology (44 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Social science (23 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Political science (17 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Qualitative research (12 works)