Jane Gray
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3780029 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Gray |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Gray |
| FIRMA | GRAY J |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8131-9432 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Protocol for a Mixed Qualitative and Comparative Cross-National Community Study on Social Loss (Linloss)
Sociologists have shown that people respond to crises by reconfiguring cultural understandings, narratives of self, and social relationships. However, insufficient attention has been paid to how what is left behind at moments of rupture shapes the direction of social change. Across many fields of social inquiry, social change is understood either as growth and reproduction, or as the diffusion of novelty. Sociological scholarship has paid compara…
The Transformation of Parents' Values and Aspirations for Their Children
This article contributes to new scholarship on family change as bricolage and institutional layering. Focusing on the classic topic of parental values and aspirations for their children, we used a retrospective qualitative longitudinal analysis to trace the evolution of four overlapping cultural configurations across the 20th century: (1) standing back and not interfering, (2) cultivating achievement, (3) encouraging positive relationships, and (…
Fighting Poverty in Times of Crisis in Europe
The debt crisis sparked a growing interest in resilience as a means to address socioeconomic hardship in Europe. This research used qualitative secondary analysis of three emblematic cases to examine resilience processes in countries with diverse welfare regimes: Poland, Portugal and Ireland. The goal is to undertake a comparative analysis of the lived experiences of households in situations of hardship, while addressing the influence of sociopol…
Changing Family Dynamics and In-Work Benefits
Internationally, in-work benefits (IWBs) are widely adopted as a measure to assist parents transitioning to work and to ‘make work pay’ for low-income families. The family income supplement (FIS) is an Irish IWB, introduced at a time of rapid societal change. This article shows how changing family dynamics, and a shift in policy focus towards a ‘work-first’ approach, challenged the original values underlying FIS. We discuss FIS in the context of …
Using reflexive lifelines in biographical interviews to aid the collection, visualisation and analysis of resilience
This article demonstrates the use of a reflexive lifeline instrument within a study oriented towards documenting and explaining resilience from a sociological perspective. Informed by both life course and biographical perspectives, our research design comprised two interviews incorporating recursive co-construction of the participant’s lifeline. We aimed to meet three objectives with this method: (1) to collect accurate retrospective data about t…
The (in)adequacy of in-work benefits in Irish lone parent labour market activation policy
In-work benefits (IWBs) are important in ‘making work pay’ for many low-income families. We consider the adequacy of Family Income Supplement (FIS) for Irish lone parents transitioning from social protection to paid employment. Drawing on interviews with lone parents and with stakeholders, FIS enables some lone parents to meet basic needs and move towards financial independence, there were also difficulties, and many are financially better off re…
Family Rhythms
The Family Rhythms project examined the Irish experience of family life over an extended period of time, in which we traced evolving relationships and practices against a backdrop of immense social, cultural and economic change, from the early years of the Irish state to the present day. We combined qualitative data from Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), with Life Histories and Social Change (LHSC) to construct a longitudinal, qualitative database wit…
Family rhythms
Family Rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly text that opens a new window on family change in Ireland. The authors draw on major new qualitative longitudinal datasets to develop a rich account of continuity and change in the textures, meanings and rhythms of family life in Ireland since the early years of the state. Consistent with the recent turn to more inductive approaches in family studies, the book focuses on changing everyday practices …
The circulation of children in rural Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century
This paper analyses the interactions amongst family, household and extended kin through an examination of two ‘circulations’ of children within rural Irish communities during the first half of the twentieth century: (1) the daily journey from home to school; (2) going to live with relatives other than parents. Drawing on life-history narratives, the article develops a new perspective on the stem-family system in Ireland by showing how ‘incomplete…
Young grandchildren and their grandparents
This article examines the changing texture of intergenerational relationships in Ireland. Focusing on the young child as ‘anchor’ generation, we traced changes in the quality and significance of grandchild–grandparent relationships across four birth cohorts, through a secondary analysis of two major qualitative longitudinal datasets made available by the Irish Qualitative Data Archive. The article describes how we addressed the challenges associa…
Household formation, inheritance and class-formation in nineteenth century Ireland
At the beginning of the 20th century, Irish social structure was dominated by a class of small landholders. Average farm size was 38.9 acres in 1911 compared to 35.7 in 1861. Just over half of all landholdings were between 5 and 30 acres in size, a proportion that had changed little since the middle of the previous century (Turner 1996: 86 and 89, Tables 3.8 and 3.9). The distinctive ‘stem family’ pattern of marriage and inheritance, supposed to …
Education and Class-formation in 20th Century Ireland
The article presents a retrospective qualitative longitudinal analysis of experiences of education and class amongst three cohorts of Irish people who started out in difficult financial circumstances. It shows how the intersection of education and class-formation in modern Ireland was 'realized' in different historical periods during the 20th century. Some groups accumulated economic and cultural resources allowing them to convert education to up…
Making Space for Sociability
This article aims to demonstrate the significant role children play in new suburban communities, and in particular, the extent to which their circuits of sociability contribute to social cohesion in the suburbs. The discussion is located within the field of sociology of childhood, which argues that children are active agents who help to create and sustain social bonds within their neighborhoods. Drawing on focus group discussions and short essays…
Gender composition and household labour strategies in pre-Famine Ireland
1 This paper examines the relationship between gender composition and rural household strategies in Cavan, a county in north-central Ireland, during the first half of the 19th century. I show that the ratio of adult females to males was highest in small farm households that depended for their survival on intensively deployed family labour in agriculture, flax-cultivation and spinning. By contrast, households without land or with micro-holdings re…
Folk Poetry and Working Class Identity in Ulster
This paper explores changing patterns of collective identity amongst rural industrial producers in the North of Ireland through an extended analysis of a single poem, The Penitent', written by the weaver poet James Orr in 1800. Working-class identities were founded as much on the experience and creation of difference as on the perception of sameness. Rural industrial producers responded to the social and economic upheavals of the time by emphasiz…
Gender and Plebian Culture in Ulster
Colonial products, such as tea and tobacco, were still considered luxury items in Ireland at the end of the eighteenth century, but their consumption by spinners and weavers of linen yarn and cloth increased from about 1780 onward. The changing cultural meanings that Irish linen producers attached to tea-drinking are explored in this article through an analysis of poems and songs written by weavers (and one spinner) around the turn of the ninetee…
Rural industry and uneven development
From the middle of the eighteenth century, the Irish linen industry grew on the basis of unequal relations of exchange between spinning and weaving households. This regional division of labour in turn depended on unequal relations of production between women and men within rural industrial households. The 'proto-industrialisation' thesis has tended to obscure this process by focussing on the household as a bounded entity, and by failing to recogn…
Conference on the Comparative Study of the Informal Sector
Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
A high‐risk population was successfully identified by the use of perinatal screening procedures. These children encountered significantly different parenting practices than the low‐risk “control” group. There were also significant differences between “High‐Risk” and “Low‐Risk” families on issues concerning social adjustment and mother/infant attachment. Five children in a “High‐Risk Nonintervene” group required hospitalization for serious injurie…
Communities of the past
Family rhythms
Family Rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly text that opens a new window on family change in Ireland. The authors draw on major new qualitative longitudinal datasets to develop a rich account of continuity and change in the textures, meanings and rhythms of family life in Ireland since the early years of the state. Consistent with the recent turn to more inductive approaches in family studies, the book focuses on changing everyday practices …
Using reflexive lifelines in biographical interviews to aid the collection, visualisation and analysis of resilience
This article demonstrates the use of a reflexive lifeline instrument within a study oriented towards documenting and explaining resilience from a sociological perspective. Informed by both life course and biographical perspectives, our research design comprised two interviews incorporating recursive co-construction of the participant’s lifeline. We aimed to meet three objectives with this method: (1) to collect accurate retrospective data about t…
Young grandchildren and their grandparents
This article examines the changing texture of intergenerational relationships in Ireland. Focusing on the young child as ‘anchor’ generation, we traced changes in the quality and significance of grandchild–grandparent relationships across four birth cohorts, through a secondary analysis of two major qualitative longitudinal datasets made available by the Irish Qualitative Data Archive. The article describes how we addressed the challenges associa…
Education and Class-formation in 20th Century Ireland
The article presents a retrospective qualitative longitudinal analysis of experiences of education and class amongst three cohorts of Irish people who started out in difficult financial circumstances. It shows how the intersection of education and class-formation in modern Ireland was 'realized' in different historical periods during the 20th century. Some groups accumulated economic and cultural resources allowing them to convert education to up…
Gender composition and household labour strategies in pre-Famine Ireland
1 This paper examines the relationship between gender composition and rural household strategies in Cavan, a county in north-central Ireland, during the first half of the 19th century. I show that the ratio of adult females to males was highest in small farm households that depended for their survival on intensively deployed family labour in agriculture, flax-cultivation and spinning. By contrast, households without land or with micro-holdings re…
Rural industry and uneven development
From the middle of the eighteenth century, the Irish linen industry grew on the basis of unequal relations of exchange between spinning and weaving households. This regional division of labour in turn depended on unequal relations of production between women and men within rural industrial households. The 'proto-industrialisation' thesis has tended to obscure this process by focussing on the household as a bounded entity, and by failing to recogn…
Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
A high‐risk population was successfully identified by the use of perinatal screening procedures. These children encountered significantly different parenting practices than the low‐risk “control” group. There were also significant differences between “High‐Risk” and “Low‐Risk” families on issues concerning social adjustment and mother/infant attachment. Five children in a “High‐Risk Nonintervene” group required hospitalization for serious injurie…
The (in)adequacy of in-work benefits in Irish lone parent labour market activation policy
In-work benefits (IWBs) are important in ‘making work pay’ for many low-income families. We consider the adequacy of Family Income Supplement (FIS) for Irish lone parents transitioning from social protection to paid employment. Drawing on interviews with lone parents and with stakeholders, FIS enables some lone parents to meet basic needs and move towards financial independence, there were also difficulties, and many are financially better off re…
Fighting Poverty in Times of Crisis in Europe
The debt crisis sparked a growing interest in resilience as a means to address socioeconomic hardship in Europe. This research used qualitative secondary analysis of three emblematic cases to examine resilience processes in countries with diverse welfare regimes: Poland, Portugal and Ireland. The goal is to undertake a comparative analysis of the lived experiences of households in situations of hardship, while addressing the influence of sociopol…
Changing Family Dynamics and In-Work Benefits
Internationally, in-work benefits (IWBs) are widely adopted as a measure to assist parents transitioning to work and to ‘make work pay’ for low-income families. The family income supplement (FIS) is an Irish IWB, introduced at a time of rapid societal change. This article shows how changing family dynamics, and a shift in policy focus towards a ‘work-first’ approach, challenged the original values underlying FIS. We discuss FIS in the context of …
The circulation of children in rural Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century
This paper analyses the interactions amongst family, household and extended kin through an examination of two ‘circulations’ of children within rural Irish communities during the first half of the twentieth century: (1) the daily journey from home to school; (2) going to live with relatives other than parents. Drawing on life-history narratives, the article develops a new perspective on the stem-family system in Ireland by showing how ‘incomplete…
Conference on the Comparative Study of the Informal Sector
Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
A high‐risk population was successfully identified by the use of perinatal screening procedures. These children encountered significantly different parenting practices than the low‐risk “control” group. There were also significant differences between “High‐Risk” and “Low‐Risk” families on issues concerning social adjustment and mother/infant attachment. Five children in a “High‐Risk Nonintervene” group required hospitalization for serious injurie…
Conference on the Comparative Study of the Informal Sector
Folk Poetry and Working Class Identity in Ulster
This paper explores changing patterns of collective identity amongst rural industrial producers in the North of Ireland through an extended analysis of a single poem, The Penitent', written by the weaver poet James Orr in 1800. Working-class identities were founded as much on the experience and creation of difference as on the perception of sameness. Rural industrial producers responded to the social and economic upheavals of the time by emphasiz…
Gender and Plebian Culture in Ulster
Colonial products, such as tea and tobacco, were still considered luxury items in Ireland at the end of the eighteenth century, but their consumption by spinners and weavers of linen yarn and cloth increased from about 1780 onward. The changing cultural meanings that Irish linen producers attached to tea-drinking are explored in this article through an analysis of poems and songs written by weavers (and one spinner) around the turn of the ninetee…
Rural industry and uneven development
From the middle of the eighteenth century, the Irish linen industry grew on the basis of unequal relations of exchange between spinning and weaving households. This regional division of labour in turn depended on unequal relations of production between women and men within rural industrial households. The 'proto-industrialisation' thesis has tended to obscure this process by focussing on the household as a bounded entity, and by failing to recogn…
Gender composition and household labour strategies in pre-Famine Ireland
1 This paper examines the relationship between gender composition and rural household strategies in Cavan, a county in north-central Ireland, during the first half of the 19th century. I show that the ratio of adult females to males was highest in small farm households that depended for their survival on intensively deployed family labour in agriculture, flax-cultivation and spinning. By contrast, households without land or with micro-holdings re…
Making Space for Sociability
This article aims to demonstrate the significant role children play in new suburban communities, and in particular, the extent to which their circuits of sociability contribute to social cohesion in the suburbs. The discussion is located within the field of sociology of childhood, which argues that children are active agents who help to create and sustain social bonds within their neighborhoods. Drawing on focus group discussions and short essays…
Household formation, inheritance and class-formation in nineteenth century Ireland
At the beginning of the 20th century, Irish social structure was dominated by a class of small landholders. Average farm size was 38.9 acres in 1911 compared to 35.7 in 1861. Just over half of all landholdings were between 5 and 30 acres in size, a proportion that had changed little since the middle of the previous century (Turner 1996: 86 and 89, Tables 3.8 and 3.9). The distinctive ‘stem family’ pattern of marriage and inheritance, supposed to …
Education and Class-formation in 20th Century Ireland
The article presents a retrospective qualitative longitudinal analysis of experiences of education and class amongst three cohorts of Irish people who started out in difficult financial circumstances. It shows how the intersection of education and class-formation in modern Ireland was 'realized' in different historical periods during the 20th century. Some groups accumulated economic and cultural resources allowing them to convert education to up…
Young grandchildren and their grandparents
This article examines the changing texture of intergenerational relationships in Ireland. Focusing on the young child as ‘anchor’ generation, we traced changes in the quality and significance of grandchild–grandparent relationships across four birth cohorts, through a secondary analysis of two major qualitative longitudinal datasets made available by the Irish Qualitative Data Archive. The article describes how we addressed the challenges associa…
The circulation of children in rural Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century
This paper analyses the interactions amongst family, household and extended kin through an examination of two ‘circulations’ of children within rural Irish communities during the first half of the twentieth century: (1) the daily journey from home to school; (2) going to live with relatives other than parents. Drawing on life-history narratives, the article develops a new perspective on the stem-family system in Ireland by showing how ‘incomplete…
Family rhythms
Family Rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly text that opens a new window on family change in Ireland. The authors draw on major new qualitative longitudinal datasets to develop a rich account of continuity and change in the textures, meanings and rhythms of family life in Ireland since the early years of the state. Consistent with the recent turn to more inductive approaches in family studies, the book focuses on changing everyday practices …
Family Rhythms
The Family Rhythms project examined the Irish experience of family life over an extended period of time, in which we traced evolving relationships and practices against a backdrop of immense social, cultural and economic change, from the early years of the Irish state to the present day. We combined qualitative data from Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), with Life Histories and Social Change (LHSC) to construct a longitudinal, qualitative database wit…
Using reflexive lifelines in biographical interviews to aid the collection, visualisation and analysis of resilience
This article demonstrates the use of a reflexive lifeline instrument within a study oriented towards documenting and explaining resilience from a sociological perspective. Informed by both life course and biographical perspectives, our research design comprised two interviews incorporating recursive co-construction of the participant’s lifeline. We aimed to meet three objectives with this method: (1) to collect accurate retrospective data about t…
The (in)adequacy of in-work benefits in Irish lone parent labour market activation policy
In-work benefits (IWBs) are important in ‘making work pay’ for many low-income families. We consider the adequacy of Family Income Supplement (FIS) for Irish lone parents transitioning from social protection to paid employment. Drawing on interviews with lone parents and with stakeholders, FIS enables some lone parents to meet basic needs and move towards financial independence, there were also difficulties, and many are financially better off re…
Changing Family Dynamics and In-Work Benefits
Internationally, in-work benefits (IWBs) are widely adopted as a measure to assist parents transitioning to work and to ‘make work pay’ for low-income families. The family income supplement (FIS) is an Irish IWB, introduced at a time of rapid societal change. This article shows how changing family dynamics, and a shift in policy focus towards a ‘work-first’ approach, challenged the original values underlying FIS. We discuss FIS in the context of …
Fighting Poverty in Times of Crisis in Europe
The debt crisis sparked a growing interest in resilience as a means to address socioeconomic hardship in Europe. This research used qualitative secondary analysis of three emblematic cases to examine resilience processes in countries with diverse welfare regimes: Poland, Portugal and Ireland. The goal is to undertake a comparative analysis of the lived experiences of households in situations of hardship, while addressing the influence of sociopol…
The Transformation of Parents' Values and Aspirations for Their Children
This article contributes to new scholarship on family change as bricolage and institutional layering. Focusing on the classic topic of parental values and aspirations for their children, we used a retrospective qualitative longitudinal analysis to trace the evolution of four overlapping cultural configurations across the 20th century: (1) standing back and not interfering, (2) cultivating achievement, (3) encouraging positive relationships, and (…
Communities of the past
Protocol for a Mixed Qualitative and Comparative Cross-National Community Study on Social Loss (Linloss)
Sociologists have shown that people respond to crises by reconfiguring cultural understandings, narratives of self, and social relationships. However, insufficient attention has been paid to how what is left behind at moments of rupture shapes the direction of social change. Across many fields of social inquiry, social change is understood either as growth and reproduction, or as the diffusion of novelty. Sociological scholarship has paid compara…
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