Changing Motherhood in the South African Middle-Class Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2348596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Zaidman Mograbi (0000-0002-6449-8149, Department of Social Work, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, corresponding author), Katherine Bain (0000-0002-6635-1335, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa), Edmarie Pretorius (0000-0001-9842-6242, Department of Social Work, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2679-2710 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0192513x231211455 |
| OpenAlex | W4388340805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
Parenting has been found to be highly contextually and culturally determined and there have been calls to research parenting within culture as it is lived. Due to changing social and economic factors, middle-class South African mothers face unique challenges in relation to the navigation of culture and class in child-rearing. Foregrounding the complexity of acculturation, this paper uses social constructionist theory in the analysis of maternal narratives and responses to video-recordings of their interaction with their infants, of a group of middle-class South African mothers from various cultural and racial groups, with an aim to understanding how mothering is changing amongst middle-class South African mothers. The findings suggest that acculturation is complex and influenced by a combination of socioeconomic status, geographical location, contact with other cultural groups and personal emotional experiences of having been parented within a particular culture
Acculturation · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Foregrounding · Geography · Middle class · Narrative · Political science · Population · Social class · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Anthropology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
Conducting Semi‐Structured Interviews
Semistructured interviewing in primary care research
Culture and Self in South Africa
Case Study
Case Study Research
Challenging the Invisibility of Domestic Workers
Culture and Customs of South Africa
Parenting Across Cultures
Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis
Moving cultures
Parenting Styles Affecting the Social Behaviour of Five-Year Olds
Mothering in socioeconomically marginalised communities in South Africa
History of Childhood Abuse and Mother-Infant Interaction
Cultural Approaches to Parenting
What watching others watching can tell us
A new class for a new South Africa? The discursive construction of the ‘Black middle class’ in post-Apartheid media
Determinants of Poverty in South Africa Using the 2018 General Household Survey Data
The new black middle class in South Africa
Identity in South Africa
Globalisation and Migrant Labour in a ‘Rainbow Nation
The Culture of Privilege
Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Transmission and Change in South African Motherhood
Conceptualising motherhood in twentieth century South Africa
Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration
Are Urban Black Families Nuclear? A Comparative Study of Black and White South African Family Norms
Attachment and Culture
Child Rearing in a Group Setting
Fathers and Their Infants
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |