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Publication date: 14 September 2018

Rachel Trees and Dianne Marion Dean

This purpose of this study is to examine the fluidity of family life which continues to attract attention. This is increasingly significant for the intergenerational relationship…

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Purpose

This purpose of this study is to examine the fluidity of family life which continues to attract attention. This is increasingly significant for the intergenerational relationship between adult children and their elderly parents. Using practice theory, the aims are to understand the role of food in elderly families and explore how family practices are maintained when elderly transition into care.

Design/methodology/approach

A phenomenological research approach was used as the authors sought to build an understanding of the social interactions between family and their lifeworld.

Findings

This study extends theory on the relationship between the elderly parent and their family and explores through practice theory how families performed their love, how altered routines and long standing rituals provided structure to the elderly relatives and how care practices were negotiated as the elderly relatives transitioned from independence to dependence and towards care. A theoretical framework is introduced that provides guidance for the transition stages and the areas for negotiation.

Research limitations/implications

This research has implications for food manufacturers and marketers, as the demand for healthy food for the elderly is made more widely available, healthy and easy to prepare. The limitations of the research are due to the sample located in East Yorkshire only.

Practical implications

This research has implications for brand managers of food manufacturers and supermarkets that need to create product lines that target this segment by producing healthy, convenience food.

Social implications

It is also important for health and social care policy as the authors seek to understand the role of food, family and community and how policy can be devised to provide stability in this transitional and uncertain lifestage.

Originality/value

This research extends the body of literature on food and the family by focussing on the elderly cared for and their family. The authors show how food can be construed as loving care, and using practice theory, a theoretical framework is developed that can explain the transitions and how the family negotiates the stages from independence to dependence.

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European Journal of Marketing, vol. 52 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0566

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Publication date: 31 December 2010

John W. Wertheimer

This chapter explores the “Constitutional Revolution” of the 1930s, as it played out beyond the walls of the U.S. Supreme Court. It argues that a radically revised historical…

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This chapter explores the “Constitutional Revolution” of the 1930s, as it played out beyond the walls of the U.S. Supreme Court. It argues that a radically revised historical memory of the Constitution accompanied the ascent New Deal liberalism. Prior core values associated with the Constitution's history, such as federalism and the sanctity of private property, were dramatically downgraded, while the civil liberties embodied in the Bill of Rights dramatically rose. By so redefining their historical memory of the Constitution, Americans could enjoy the active government that most desired while still celebrating the constitutional traditions of individual freedom and limited government.

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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-615-8

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Publication date: 2 January 2009

Richard J. Pech

Issues of trust and control are two major determinants for employee disengagement and organizational conflict. The following article describes how Bill Day, owner of Seaworks, a

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Purpose

Issues of trust and control are two major determinants for employee disengagement and organizational conflict. The following article describes how Bill Day, owner of Seaworks, a rapidly growing ocean salvage company, deals with issues of trust and employee disengagement.

Design/methodology/approach

This article incorporates findings from an interview with Bill Day and literature on the areas of trust, employee disengagement, and the need for a personal sense of control.

Findings

Key determinants for employee engagement are a sense of trust between employees and their managers as well as a sense of personal control. Restructuring efforts in the past may have been major contributors to employee disengagement. Trust must be communicated through the firm's culture and it must start from the top of the organization. A key barrier between employees and managers is the managerial reluctance to delegate authority and devolve power. This conflict between the organization's goals and the goals of its managers is a major catalyst for organizational dysfunctionality.

Implications

There may be a direct correlation between managerial reluctance to delegate decision‐making and employee disengagement. This defensive posture by management negatively affects employee‐management trust and employees' sense of control in the workplace. While attempts at organizational delayering and employee involvement in decision‐making have often failed in the past, a commonsense approach is suggested with a heightened probability of success.

Originality/value

This paper suggests a practical means of reducing the incidence of employee disengagement and thereby increasing productivity and performance. Issues concerning trust and control in organizations are resolved. It is also posited that such proposed organizational improvements will reduce workplace conflict and absenteeism, employee turnover, and increase economy of effort, thereby lowering costs and improving profitability.

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Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 30 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0275-6668

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Publication date: 20 December 2013

Thomas A. Heberlein

Bill Freudenburg arrived in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1986 with a broad view of environmental/resource sociology. Within a few…

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Bill Freudenburg arrived in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1986 with a broad view of environmental/resource sociology. Within a few years, Bill organized a dozen faculty members into STARE, the acronym for Science, Technology, Agriculture, Resources, and the Environment. For nearly a decade and a half, STARE comprised the country’s largest critical mass in environmental and resource sociology. His intellectual contributions to the field are well documented, but possibly his greatest legacy was training the next generation of environmental/resource sociologists.

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William R. Freudenburg, A Life in Social Research
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78190-734-4

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Publication date: 17 October 2024

Joseph Collins and Dale Metcalfe

The negative effects of loneliness and isolation on mental health and wellbeing on the neurotypical population are well documented. The purpose of this qualitative study was to…

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Purpose

The negative effects of loneliness and isolation on mental health and wellbeing on the neurotypical population are well documented. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the effects of isolation on the mental health and wellbeing of autistic adults who were separated from friends and family for an extended period.

Design/methodology/approach

Semi-structured interviews were conducted shortly after the lifting of the third UK lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic with a sample of 7 people (mean age, 35) formally diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Findings

The study explored effects stemming from the absence of social interaction. Thematic analysis led to the creation of three themes: The first, “Context affects perception of isolation: I’m going to continue on with my life as much as I possibly can” shows a negative impact on wellbeing, perceived through the filter of larger issues resulting from lockdown and the necessity of isolation. The second, “Being alone can be comfortable: Lockdown has been good for me” discusses the mental health benefits of isolation and participants feeling of being “primed” for that isolation. The third, “Challenges from isolation: ‘Changing routine’” explores the changes people made while isolated, with a focus on coping strategies and communication.

Originality/value

Findings reveal the importance of supporting autistic adults to maintain social contact during and after isolation and contradict research suggesting autistic people are not motivated to seek social interaction.

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Advances in Autism, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2056-3868

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Publication date: 1 March 1984

Rick Richmond

On Wednesday, December 4, 1957, the first copies of the first edition of Chases' Calendar of Annual Events were delivered by the printer to Bill and Helen Chase in Flint…

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On Wednesday, December 4, 1957, the first copies of the first edition of Chases' Calendar of Annual Events were delivered by the printer to Bill and Helen Chase in Flint, Michigan. Two thousand copies, consisting of 32 pages and listing 364 events, were printed. During the 26 years which have followed, Chases' Calendar has grown to nearly 200 pages, lists well over 4,000 events, has been displayed at two World's Fairs and at a White House Conference, and may be found in innumerable reference collections throughout the world.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 12 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 March 1986

B.C. VICKERY

The problems of representing knowledge in computer systems are common to information science, artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics. The paper offers a brief review…

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The problems of representing knowledge in computer systems are common to information science, artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics. The paper offers a brief review of the structures and techniques that have been developed in these different disciplines. It looks at the semantic structure of sentences, at roles, categories and relations in subject anlaysis, at semantic primitives, and at knowledge representation for reasoning. The paper concludes with a note on a prototype expert system that makes use of some of these techniques.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 42 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 November 2003

Peter Bates, Steve Easter, Bill Love, Molly Mattingley and Joan Maughan

A great deal has already been written about payments to people in day centres and sheltered workshops, but most writers just discuss what can be done within the law. This paper…

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A great deal has already been written about payments to people in day centres and sheltered workshops, but most writers just discuss what can be done within the law. This paper takes a different approach by considering what the authors think is right rather than just what is allowed.The National Development Team (NDT) has been offering training, evaluation and support for organisational development since the 1970s.

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A Life in the Day, vol. 7 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1366-6282

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Publication date: 13 November 2023

William K. Rawlins

This letter to David R. Maines celebrates our friendship over the last 35 years. I read his voice in emails, handwritten letters, and recollected phone conversations to display…

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This letter to David R. Maines celebrates our friendship over the last 35 years. I read his voice in emails, handwritten letters, and recollected phone conversations to display the meaningful exchanges of our scholarly friendship. I thank Dave for teaching me how to retire from the academy and grow older with purpose and grace. Highlighting his expert mentoring of my book Friendship Matters (1992), I recall how his suggested revisions for the chapters on aging anticipated a poignant array of our own experiences as friends in our later years. Finally, I appreciate his cultivated interests in drawing, writing poetry, and playing guitar, and thank him for encouraging my music. I am grateful for his dedication to esthetic endeavors, which warmly shaped our friendship during our later years.

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Festschrift in Honor of David R. Maines
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83753-486-9

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Publication date: 1 September 1947

OCTOBER brings the full swing of winter's activities. Students have gone to their classes again, library meetings take place—not the least of them the London and Home Counties…

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OCTOBER brings the full swing of winter's activities. Students have gone to their classes again, library meetings take place—not the least of them the London and Home Counties Branch annual conference, this time at Margate, which has just concluded—and, at the end of the month, the annual election of the L.A. Council. The interest, probably the quality, of a librarian can be gauged by his attitude towards these things. One who does not vote for his Association Council has no right to criticise its acts, and he who does not support, at least reasonably, the meetings his Association arranges, lacks the loyalty which every profession has a right to expect of its members. October 15 is the final date of entry for the December professional examinations. It will be noted, too, that this year the Entrance examination takes place on Wednesday, November 26—a fortnight before the Registration first group.

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New Library World, vol. 50 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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