Deborah K Van Den Hoonaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah K Van Den Hoonaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah K Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoonaard |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN HOONAARD D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Thomas University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Widowhood
This entry summarizes the social meaning of widowhood. It discusses demographic aspects of widowhood and its gendered impact. Widowhood requires building a new identity and negotiation of relationships with children and friends and requires the widowed person to adapt to living alone. Future research will have to consider same‐sex widowhood and loss of lifelong partners who were not married
Learning to Be Old: How Qualitative Research Contributes to Our Understanding of Ageism
Today, we have a life expectancy that earlier eras could not have dreamed of. An aging population is the hallmark of a successful society. How is it, then, that we consider one of the greatest achievements of society to be a disaster? This talk argues that the beliefs underlying ageism, based on the premise that all old people are the same, pervade contemporary thinking. Despite the fact that becoming old involves physical changes, aging has a si…
Essentials of Thinking Ethically in Qualitative Research
Ethical dimensions of qualitative research are constantly emerging and shifting. This volume identifies relevant ethical principles that can guide novice researchers through the research process with the necessary wisdom and insight to shape a project in sound, meaningful, and thoughtful ways. Well known for their work in this area, the van den Hoonaards outline the domains on which ethics most often impinge. They address key ethical issues arisi…
Constructing the Boundaries of Retirement for Baby-Boomer Women: Like Turning Off the Tap, or Is It
We are at a unique point in history when an unprecedented number of women are beginning to retire. Earlier work has suggested that women have few identity concerns in retirement because they had less attachment to the labor force. In contrast, women of the baby-boomer generation are the first cohorts to have participated in significant numbers in the paid work force since the institutionalization of retirement. Using in-depth, semi-structured int…
I was there when she passed’: Older widowers' narratives of the death of their wife
There is evidence that older widowed women provide narrative accounts of the events that led up to the deaths of their husbands. These accounts are qualitatively different from other parts of their interviews. This study examines interviews from older widowers and asks what features characterise their narrative accounts of their wife's death. The data show that men do speak of the death of their wife in a qualitatively different way than they do …
The legacy of Helena Znaniecka Lopata in widowhood research: Enduring concepts, life lessons, new insights
Telling the Collective Story: Symbolic Interactionism in Narrative Research
Recent years have seen tremendous growth of interest in narrative approaches to research in both the social sciences and the humanities. Much of this research focuses on the stories of individuals and how they tell them. This article addresses the contribution of a symbolic interactionist approach to develop the “collective story” (Richardson 1990) through the use of sensitizing concepts. It focuses on research on the experience of widows, widowe…
Experiences of Living Alone: Widows' and Widowers' Perspectives
This paper compares how older widows and widowers experience living alone. The data come from two in-depth interview studies of widows aged over 50 and widowers aged over 57 respectively. Living alone presents differing challenges for both men and women, as does the symbolic meaning of overcoming those challenges. Widows need to overcome their fear of living alone and to master household work that their husbands had previously undertaken. They le…
Widowers' strategies of self-representation during research interviews: A sociological analysis
This article analyses the strategies that older widowers used to assert their masculinity during in-depth research interviews by the author, a middle-aged woman. Twenty-six widowers living in Atlantic Canada and Florida in the United States and who were aged from 56 to 91 years participated in the study. The author analysed the interviews from a symbolic-interactionist perspective that looks at the world from the perspective of those being studie…
Moving Toward a Three-Way Intersection in Translational Research: A Sociological Perspective
Conventionally, the definition of translational research describes a two-way process of translation from the "bench" to the "bedside" and the "bedside" to the "bench." In this article, however, I suggest that those at the bottom (i.e., the clinicians) are likely to pay more attention to what those at the top (i.e., the scientists) say than vice versa. I argue that the experience of the patient, omitted from consideration, has much to add to the u…
Aging and masculinity: A topic whose time has come
Aging and masculinity: A topic whose time has come
Experiences of Living Alone: Widows' and Widowers' Perspectives
This paper compares how older widows and widowers experience living alone. The data come from two in-depth interview studies of widows aged over 50 and widowers aged over 57 respectively. Living alone presents differing challenges for both men and women, as does the symbolic meaning of overcoming those challenges. Widows need to overcome their fear of living alone and to master household work that their husbands had previously undertaken. They le…
I was there when she passed’: Older widowers' narratives of the death of their wife
There is evidence that older widowed women provide narrative accounts of the events that led up to the deaths of their husbands. These accounts are qualitatively different from other parts of their interviews. This study examines interviews from older widowers and asks what features characterise their narrative accounts of their wife's death. The data show that men do speak of the death of their wife in a qualitatively different way than they do …
Widowers' strategies of self-representation during research interviews: A sociological analysis
This article analyses the strategies that older widowers used to assert their masculinity during in-depth research interviews by the author, a middle-aged woman. Twenty-six widowers living in Atlantic Canada and Florida in the United States and who were aged from 56 to 91 years participated in the study. The author analysed the interviews from a symbolic-interactionist perspective that looks at the world from the perspective of those being studie…
Telling the Collective Story: Symbolic Interactionism in Narrative Research
Recent years have seen tremendous growth of interest in narrative approaches to research in both the social sciences and the humanities. Much of this research focuses on the stories of individuals and how they tell them. This article addresses the contribution of a symbolic interactionist approach to develop the “collective story” (Richardson 1990) through the use of sensitizing concepts. It focuses on research on the experience of widows, widowe…
Constructing the Boundaries of Retirement for Baby-Boomer Women: Like Turning Off the Tap, or Is It
We are at a unique point in history when an unprecedented number of women are beginning to retire. Earlier work has suggested that women have few identity concerns in retirement because they had less attachment to the labor force. In contrast, women of the baby-boomer generation are the first cohorts to have participated in significant numbers in the paid work force since the institutionalization of retirement. Using in-depth, semi-structured int…
Moving Toward a Three-Way Intersection in Translational Research: A Sociological Perspective
Conventionally, the definition of translational research describes a two-way process of translation from the "bench" to the "bedside" and the "bedside" to the "bench." In this article, however, I suggest that those at the bottom (i.e., the clinicians) are likely to pay more attention to what those at the top (i.e., the scientists) say than vice versa. I argue that the experience of the patient, omitted from consideration, has much to add to the u…
Aging and masculinity: A topic whose time has come
Experiences of Living Alone: Widows' and Widowers' Perspectives
This paper compares how older widows and widowers experience living alone. The data come from two in-depth interview studies of widows aged over 50 and widowers aged over 57 respectively. Living alone presents differing challenges for both men and women, as does the symbolic meaning of overcoming those challenges. Widows need to overcome their fear of living alone and to master household work that their husbands had previously undertaken. They le…
Widowers' strategies of self-representation during research interviews: A sociological analysis
This article analyses the strategies that older widowers used to assert their masculinity during in-depth research interviews by the author, a middle-aged woman. Twenty-six widowers living in Atlantic Canada and Florida in the United States and who were aged from 56 to 91 years participated in the study. The author analysed the interviews from a symbolic-interactionist perspective that looks at the world from the perspective of those being studie…
Moving Toward a Three-Way Intersection in Translational Research: A Sociological Perspective
Conventionally, the definition of translational research describes a two-way process of translation from the "bench" to the "bedside" and the "bedside" to the "bench." In this article, however, I suggest that those at the bottom (i.e., the clinicians) are likely to pay more attention to what those at the top (i.e., the scientists) say than vice versa. I argue that the experience of the patient, omitted from consideration, has much to add to the u…
The legacy of Helena Znaniecka Lopata in widowhood research: Enduring concepts, life lessons, new insights
Telling the Collective Story: Symbolic Interactionism in Narrative Research
Recent years have seen tremendous growth of interest in narrative approaches to research in both the social sciences and the humanities. Much of this research focuses on the stories of individuals and how they tell them. This article addresses the contribution of a symbolic interactionist approach to develop the “collective story” (Richardson 1990) through the use of sensitizing concepts. It focuses on research on the experience of widows, widowe…
I was there when she passed’: Older widowers' narratives of the death of their wife
There is evidence that older widowed women provide narrative accounts of the events that led up to the deaths of their husbands. These accounts are qualitatively different from other parts of their interviews. This study examines interviews from older widowers and asks what features characterise their narrative accounts of their wife's death. The data show that men do speak of the death of their wife in a qualitatively different way than they do …
Constructing the Boundaries of Retirement for Baby-Boomer Women: Like Turning Off the Tap, or Is It
We are at a unique point in history when an unprecedented number of women are beginning to retire. Earlier work has suggested that women have few identity concerns in retirement because they had less attachment to the labor force. In contrast, women of the baby-boomer generation are the first cohorts to have participated in significant numbers in the paid work force since the institutionalization of retirement. Using in-depth, semi-structured int…
Essentials of Thinking Ethically in Qualitative Research
Ethical dimensions of qualitative research are constantly emerging and shifting. This volume identifies relevant ethical principles that can guide novice researchers through the research process with the necessary wisdom and insight to shape a project in sound, meaningful, and thoughtful ways. Well known for their work in this area, the van den Hoonaards outline the domains on which ethics most often impinge. They address key ethical issues arisi…
Learning to Be Old: How Qualitative Research Contributes to Our Understanding of Ageism
Today, we have a life expectancy that earlier eras could not have dreamed of. An aging population is the hallmark of a successful society. How is it, then, that we consider one of the greatest achievements of society to be a disaster? This talk argues that the beliefs underlying ageism, based on the premise that all old people are the same, pervade contemporary thinking. Despite the fact that becoming old involves physical changes, aging has a si…
Widowhood
This entry summarizes the social meaning of widowhood. It discusses demographic aspects of widowhood and its gendered impact. Widowhood requires building a new identity and negotiation of relationships with children and friends and requires the widowed person to adapt to living alone. Future research will have to consider same‐sex widowhood and loss of lifelong partners who were not married
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works)