P C Rosenblatt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 23554 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P C Rosenblatt |
| PRENOMES | P C |
| SOBRENOME | Rosenblatt |
| ASSINATURA | ROSENBLATT P C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5283-2736 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 398 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1964 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
African American Grief
African American Grief is a unique contribution to the field, both as a professional resource for counselors, therapists, social workers, clergy, and nurses, and as a reference volume for thanatologists, academics, and researchers. The classic edition includes a new preface from the authors reflecting on their work and on the changes in society and the field since the book’s initial publication. This work considers the potential effects of slaver…
Responding to bereaved people’s words about relationship system loss
People grieving a death may grieve not only the loss of the person who died but also relationship systems lost because of the death. Relationship systems can be defined as what goes on between or among people. In helping bereaved people who talk about systemic loss it is important to acknowledge and speak to that aspect of their loss and, if appropriate, to support them in finding ways to move forward in addressing their systemic losses. Failure …
College Faculty Member Grief Over Deaths of Current and Former Students
This article is an autoethnographic exploration of college faculty grief. Over a career, a college teacher is likely to encounter deaths of current and former students. The rich connections that can develop in a faculty–student relationship can make for strong grief. Issues that can complicate faculty grief include regrets that might be unique to faculty–student relationships and information about the deceased that the faculty member feels obliga…
African American Autobiographer Accounts of Learning from Parents How to Deal with Racism
Alternative approaches to conceptualizing grief
As an exploration of alternative approaches to thinking about grief, this paper raises fundamental questions about the nature of grief. Is grief one thing or many? Can we theorize about grief in ways that better take into account its complex tangle of feelings and thoughts, its ambiguity, its differences across people, its changes over time, and the diverse ways in which different people talk about their bereavement? Can we capture the sensitivit…
One Interviewer Versus Several
In the past I worked at meeting modernist research standards by carrying out qualitative family research using multiple interviewers. But different interviewers brought back different interview material, and although from a postmodern perspective that is to be expected and can be beneficial, it created several problems. As I have evolved to be more of a postmodern researcher, the modernist standards I once believed in still matter to me, but I no…
Selective Disclosure in a First Conversation About a Family Death in James Agee's Novel A Death in the Family
The first conversation of a family about a family death is a neglected but potentially important topic. In a first conversation in James Agee's (1957/ 2006) novel A Death in the Family, the member who knows the most about the accidental death of another member discloses information selectively. The first conversation in Agee's novel suggests that communication and caring in the first family conversation about a death is attuned to family member e…
Researching Chinese Cultural Understandings of Marriage via Similes and Metaphors on the World Wide Web
In an attempt to understand how changes in the societal context of Chinese marriage are reflected in Chinese cultural understandings of marriage, we explore Chinese similes and metaphors for marriage posted on the World Wide Web. Seven themes were found: You will have to decide whether a marriage will work for you, marriage is not about romantic love, marriage is bitter and sweet at the same time, marriage is strong and real, you must work at a m…
Chinese Similes and Metaphors for Family
This paper explores a culture and a research method, based on the conjecture that common similes and metaphors in a culture for "family" may offer insights into important aspects of the meanings, values, and ideals connected to family in that culture. With a focus on China, we looked for the first similes and metaphors for family that came up on the two most popular Chinese search engines, Baidu and Google. We winnowed the first hits, eliminating…
Racism and Black-White Relationships in End-of-Life Care in the United States
Despite the almost sacred nature of end-of-life care in hospitals, hospice programs, and nursing homes, there is every reason to think that racism and the racial system are often present in black-white relationships in end-of-life care in the United States. This speculative essay explores expressions of the racial system that might occur in end-of-life care, from the perspectives of Euro-Americans and African Americans as patients, family members…
Qualitative Family Research
Grief across cultures
Giving at a loss
The concepts of “gift” and “debt” have frequently been subject to sociological discussion. This paper develops a theoretical view of couple relationships following the death of a parent as involving elements of indebtedness to the deceased parent and “giving” within the couple dyad. Illustrations of the theoretical dynamics are drawn from in-depth interviews conducted with couples in which one or both of the partners had experienced the death of …
Confucian Family Values and Childless Couples in South Korea
The Korean family has long met Confucian values by producing children to maintain and support the paternal family line, but in South Korea's transition to a low birth rate, an increasing number of couples have remained childless. Have Confucian family values been abandoned? In this study, 103 young single South Koreans wrote protocols describing their thoughts about childless couples and having children. Most of them viewed childless couples nega…
Recovery Following Bereavement
The concept of recovery following bereavement can be both useful and misleading. As a metaphor, the concept of recovery highlights some aspects of bereavement and obscures others. Bereaved people interviewed in 3 different studies typically did not bring up the term recovery so it did not seem to be a term that described their experience. Across cultures, the concept of recovery can be irrelevant or even misleading in understanding what goes on f…
Two in a Bed
The Dance of Closeness-Distance in Couple Relationships after the Death of a Parent
In-depth interviews of 18 couples focused on the couple relationship after a partner experienced the death of a parent. Working from a view of couple relationships as involving a dance of closeness and distance, never getting too far apart or coming too close, the article explores how a parent's death can alter the conditions, forms, and grounds of closeness-distance and how issues of support following the death are entangled in the dance. As the…
South African Zulu Widows in a Time of Poverty and Social Change
Interviews were carried out with 16 South African Zulu widows. Much of what the widows had to say seemed like what one might hear from widows in economically developed countries, but there were also striking differences. All the widows lived in poverty, and for some their grief seemed much more about the poverty than about the husband's death. Most widows observed a year of traditional ukuzila mourning practices, which made them a threat to other…
Leeder, Elaine. The Family in Global Perspective
LEEDER, Elaine. THE FAMILY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: A GENDERED JOURNEY." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 37(3), pp. 483–484
When a caregiver is dying
What if a terminally ill person has the responsibility for caring for an elderly family member who cannot care for herself? And what if it seems that no person and no institution can replace the care she provides? The dilemma may occur in any society, and in each society there will be cultural understandings and resources for dealing with the situation. This paper focuses on Korea, turning to a best-selling Korean novel by Hee Gyung Noh for ideas…
Narratives of Grieving African-Americans About Racism in the Lives of Deceased Family Members
As part of a comprehensive interview study on African-American grief, the authors explored how racism is incorporated into narratives about a deceased family member. To the extent that experiences of racism are pervasive in African-American life and to the extent that narratives about a person who has died generally account for the life experiences, achievements, character, and challenges faced by the deceased, the authors expected narratives abo…
Grieving While Driving
Secondary analysis of data from 84 people in 2 interview studies shows that some bereaved people grieve actively while driving. The grief can be intense, even years after a death. Grief while driving may erupt spontaneously or be set off by a wide range of reminders. Some bereaved people seem to save their grieving for times when they drive, because that is when they have the time and privacy to think and feel, but it would be safer for them and …
Closure in American Culture
Nancy Berns is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Drake University. Her teaching and research interests are in areas of grief, death, violence, justice, and social construction. She is the auth
Buddhist realities concerning death
Robert Desjarlais is Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard (University of California Press, 2011), Sensory Biogra
Poetry of Illness, Dying, Death, Grief, and Renewal
My Brother's Keeper
Children often act as caretakers responsible for other children. Such child caretaking varies widely in its frequency, as well as in the degree of institutionalization, relationship to parental caretaking, degree of indulgence, and incidence at differing ages. Residence and household patterns, size of the family, and the subsistence economy, daily routines, and work load of the family are important in determining availability of child caretakers …
Ethics of qualitative interviewing with grieving families
Qualitative research interviews in grieving families provide researchers with helpful information far making ethical decisions and for evaluating the outcomes of those decisions. At the same time, such research presents researchers with many ethical challenges. Illustrations from a recent study of farm families who had lost a family member in a fatal farm accident are used to illuminate some of the ethical challenges in qualitative bereavement re…
Origins and effects of group ethnocentrism and nationalism
Grief
Although the psychology of grief focuses on individuals, grief occurs in the context of social relationships and culture. The dynamic effects of the social and cultural context on individual grief are discussed from the perspective of symbolic interaction theory and family systems theory. Implications of these theories presented here include problems for the bereaved due to loss of a person who was an important part of the social context, the rol…
After the Interview
Confucian Family Values and Childless Couples in South Korea
The Korean family has long met Confucian values by producing children to maintain and support the paternal family line, but in South Korea's transition to a low birth rate, an increasing number of couples have remained childless. Have Confucian family values been abandoned? In this study, 103 young single South Koreans wrote protocols describing their thoughts about childless couples and having children. Most of them viewed childless couples nega…
Marital Residence and the Functions of Romantic Love
Television Watching and Family Tensions
The relationship between amount of television watching and level of family tension was studied through interviews carried out in 64 Minneapolis households. Higher tension levels were found in families with high levels of television watching. Some of the effect may be due to frustrations stemming from television set operation. But the finding of a stronger relationship between television watching and number of conflicts, arguments, disagreements, …
Challenges in Cross-Cultural Marriage
In order to explore how cultural issues emerge as challenges for intercultural couples, intensive interviews were carried out with 12 couples in which she was Chinese and had grown up in Asia and he was Euro-American. The greatest challenges were communicating without a shared language in which both were equally fluent, the difficulties of living in his home country, and dealing with certain areas of cultural difference. The most challenging area…
Romantic Love and Subsistence Dependence of Spouses
Courtship Patterns Associated with Freedom of Choice of Spouse
In a large-sample cross-cultural study, correlates of freedom of choice in mate selection were investigated. Freedom of choice of spouse is associated with greater male-female contact in general, including more frequent marriage into the local community and greater importance and frequency of dances. Freedom of choice is also associated with greater romantic love as a basis of marriage, with impractical grounds of choice, and with greater male-fe…
Dominant Epistemological Presuppositions in the Use of the Cross-Cultural Survey Method [and Comments and Reply]
This article subjects to critical analysis the epistemological conceptions which have dominated the way cross-cultural survey research has been carried out and propagated within the anthropological discipline. These conceptions may be characterized as inductivist and empiricist. This orientation is critized primarily from the point of view of Popper's concept of science. In this context, problems of concept formation and theory construction as we…
One Interviewer Versus Several
In the past I worked at meeting modernist research standards by carrying out qualitative family research using multiple interviewers. But different interviewers brought back different interview material, and although from a postmodern perspective that is to be expected and can be beneficial, it created several problems. As I have evolved to be more of a postmodern researcher, the modernist standards I once believed in still matter to me, but I no…
Shame in Korean Families
Although shame may be a pan-human feeling and concept, it may be different in important ways from culture to culture. This paper offers a view of shame in Korean families. It is based on intensive qualitative interviews with a single informant who is also the first author of the paper. The paper outlines the cultural roots of shame in Korea, the central place of shame in the functioning of Korean families, the ways that shame in Korea is not only…
Birth order in cross-cultural perspective
Recovery Following Bereavement
The concept of recovery following bereavement can be both useful and misleading. As a metaphor, the concept of recovery highlights some aspects of bereavement and obscures others. Bereaved people interviewed in 3 different studies typically did not bring up the term recovery so it did not seem to be a term that described their experience. Across cultures, the concept of recovery can be irrelevant or even misleading in understanding what goes on f…
Wealth Transfer and Restrictions on Sexual Relations during Betrothal
South African Zulu Widows in a Time of Poverty and Social Change
Interviews were carried out with 16 South African Zulu widows. Much of what the widows had to say seemed like what one might hear from widows in economically developed countries, but there were also striking differences. All the widows lived in poverty, and for some their grief seemed much more about the poverty than about the husband's death. Most widows observed a year of traditional ukuzila mourning practices, which made them a threat to other…
The Social Psychology of Potential Problems in Family Vacation Travel
Social psychological thinking and the data of an exploratory study are used to illuminate potentialproblems in family vacation travel. Aspects of vacations that are discussed include the opportunities to be apart, territoriality changes from the home situation, amount of previous experience vacationing with one's current vacation companions, division of labor changes. expectations and ideals, traveling with children, and traveling with parents. V…
Selective Disclosure in a First Conversation About a Family Death in James Agee's Novel A Death in the Family
The first conversation of a family about a family death is a neglected but potentially important topic. In a first conversation in James Agee's (1957/ 2006) novel A Death in the Family, the member who knows the most about the accidental death of another member discloses information selectively. The first conversation in Agee's novel suggests that communication and caring in the first family conversation about a death is attuned to family member e…
Marriage Ceremonies
In an investigation of marriage ceremonies, a random sample of 50 cultures was drawn from a defined universe of representative, well-described cultures. Ceremonies were found to be present in 86% of the 44 cultures that could be evaluated. Considerations of the value of commitment in protecting stakes where marriages have substantial wealth and alliance implications led to the predictions that ceremonies and elaboration of ceremonies would be ass…
Behavior in Public Places
A total of 440 adult couples, some with and some without accompanying children, were observed in eight different kinds of public places. Couples with children were observed to touch, talk, and smile less at one another. The smiling effect may be an artifact of situations in which adults travel without children or of the kinds of adults who travel in situations where children are absent. But it seems clear that children
A Cross-Cultural Study of Responses to Childlessness
Childlessness was studied in a sample of 78 societies from the universe defined by Murdock and White (1969). In all the societies in which presence or absence of solutions to childlessness could be assessed, there were solutions to childlessness. Magico-religious-ethnomedical solutions seem most popular and most likely to be tried first. Women get blamed for childlessness significantly more often than men, which may be a result of the ubiquity of…
Divorce for childlessness and the regulation of adultery∗
Children are obviously important to people all over the world, especially in societies lacking in such inventions as life insurance and socialized medicine. Children may serve as insurance against personal disaster in old-age or infirmity; they may be the means to build useful alliances or to acquire greater wealth; they can be entertaining; they may be a source of status or a sign of virility or fertility; children often strengthen the bond of m…
Researching Chinese Cultural Understandings of Marriage via Similes and Metaphors on the World Wide Web
In an attempt to understand how changes in the societal context of Chinese marriage are reflected in Chinese cultural understandings of marriage, we explore Chinese similes and metaphors for marriage posted on the World Wide Web. Seven themes were found: You will have to decide whether a marriage will work for you, marriage is not about romantic love, marriage is bitter and sweet at the same time, marriage is strong and real, you must work at a m…
Origins and effects of group ethnocentrism and nationalism
Marital Residence and the Functions of Romantic Love
Romantic Love and Subsistence Dependence of Spouses
Wealth Transfer and Restrictions on Sexual Relations during Betrothal
John Woolman
Communication in the Practice of Love Magic
Donald R. Bender 1934-1969
Divorce for childlessness and the regulation of adultery∗
Children are obviously important to people all over the world, especially in societies lacking in such inventions as life insurance and socialized medicine. Children may serve as insurance against personal disaster in old-age or infirmity; they may be the means to build useful alliances or to acquire greater wealth; they can be entertaining; they may be a source of status or a sign of virility or fertility; children often strengthen the bond of m…
Courtship Patterns Associated with Freedom of Choice of Spouse
In a large-sample cross-cultural study, correlates of freedom of choice in mate selection were investigated. Freedom of choice of spouse is associated with greater male-female contact in general, including more frequent marriage into the local community and greater importance and frequency of dances. Freedom of choice is also associated with greater romantic love as a basis of marriage, with impractical grounds of choice, and with greater male-fe…
Coping with Anger and Aggression in Mourning
Content analysis of ethnographic materials was used to study means of coping with anger and aggression by bereaved persons. It appears that anger and aggression by bereaved persons is reduced in societies where ritual specialists are used in the period up to and including initial body disposal. In societies where there are institutionalized patterns of anger and aggression, the problem of keeping the anger and aggression channeled seems to be dea…
A Cross-Cultural Study of Responses to Childlessness
Childlessness was studied in a sample of 78 societies from the universe defined by Murdock and White (1969). In all the societies in which presence or absence of solutions to childlessness could be assessed, there were solutions to childlessness. Magico-religious-ethnomedical solutions seem most popular and most likely to be tried first. Women get blamed for childlessness significantly more often than men, which may be a result of the ubiquity of…
Birth order in cross-cultural perspective
Marriage Ceremonies
In an investigation of marriage ceremonies, a random sample of 50 cultures was drawn from a defined universe of representative, well-described cultures. Ceremonies were found to be present in 86% of the 44 cultures that could be evaluated. Considerations of the value of commitment in protecting stakes where marriages have substantial wealth and alliance implications led to the predictions that ceremonies and elaboration of ceremonies would be ass…
Behavior in Public Places
A total of 440 adult couples, some with and some without accompanying children, were observed in eight different kinds of public places. Couples with children were observed to touch, talk, and smile less at one another. The smiling effect may be an artifact of situations in which adults travel without children or of the kinds of adults who travel in situations where children are absent. But it seems clear that children
Family Articles in Popular Magazines
Millions of Americans are exposed each month to articles on the family in such magazines as Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Mademoiselle, McCalls, Parents' Magazine, Redbook, and Woman's Day. In 1968, the total circulation of these eight publications exceeded 40,000,000 (White, 1970). Many social scientists deplore popularization, avoid reading popularized articles or assigning them to their students, refuse to be quoted i…
Dominant Epistemological Presuppositions in the Use of the Cross-Cultural Survey Method [and Comments and Reply]
This article subjects to critical analysis the epistemological conceptions which have dominated the way cross-cultural survey research has been carried out and propagated within the anthropological discipline. These conceptions may be characterized as inductivist and empiricist. This orientation is critized primarily from the point of view of Popper's concept of science. In this context, problems of concept formation and theory construction as we…
The Social Psychology of Potential Problems in Family Vacation Travel
Social psychological thinking and the data of an exploratory study are used to illuminate potentialproblems in family vacation travel. Aspects of vacations that are discussed include the opportunities to be apart, territoriality changes from the home situation, amount of previous experience vacationing with one's current vacation companions, division of labor changes. expectations and ideals, traveling with children, and traveling with parents. V…
Television Watching and Family Tensions
The relationship between amount of television watching and level of family tension was studied through interviews carried out in 64 Minneapolis households. Higher tension levels were found in families with high levels of television watching. Some of the effect may be due to frustrations stemming from television set operation. But the finding of a stronger relationship between television watching and number of conflicts, arguments, disagreements, …
My Brother's Keeper
Children often act as caretakers responsible for other children. Such child caretaking varies widely in its frequency, as well as in the degree of institutionalization, relationship to parental caretaking, degree of indulgence, and incidence at differing ages. Residence and household patterns, size of the family, and the subsistence economy, daily routines, and work load of the family are important in determining availability of child caretakers …
Death and the Family
Grief and Mourning in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Family Conflict over Inheritance of Property
The Sociocultural Aspects of Language Departments
Epsitemology and Ontology in Cross-Cultural Research
New trends in ethnographic rhetoric and in the study ofmeaningspointto major directions for growth in cross-cultural research. The new rhetoric makes possible comparative research with ethnographies that are rich in information on topics of interest, the study of ethnographer-informant relationships, and the compilation ofintensive case analyses from a number offocused ethnographies. The new rhetoric often documents with anecdote, making it more …
The Child and Death
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