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Settled or Uprooted? The Meaning of “Home” and Attachment to Place for Elderly Male Retirees within an Independent Living Community
No full text台灣傳統「父權」、「父系」和「父居」的家系文化，形塑家的意義建構、支配性別分工、自我認同發展、生活福祉等，使家的意義有性別差異，然而現有家意義認同的文獻卻鮮以男性為研究對象。當社區男性老人搬到安養中心後，這般遷移到底是「搬家」還是「離家」，無疑是對安養中心算不算「家」的質問。本研究以Elder（1994）的生命歷程觀點和Watkins及Hosier（2005）的家意義發展脈絡分析架構，了解男性老人搬到安養護機構後，如何看待過去家的經驗？過去家的經驗意義，是否會影響他們現在的居住情形？以及與安養中心的地方依附情形為何？以台北市某安養中心作為田野，因台籍男性住民屬中心裡少數群體（9/116）經驗較為特殊、且於相對穩定的日治時代成長，故以台籍男性住民為對象並深度訪談6位研究參與者（平均年齡77歲；2位鰥夫住單人房、4位與配偶住夫妻房；平均居住時間28個月）。
訪談逐字稿和田野筆記經過類屬分析與情境分析後，分別在「老家？居住生活軌跡」、「男性的居住流動：生命歷程觀點」和「家變：由社區到安養中心的轉銜」三章回答研究提問。最後，歸結出「『異男』專屬的生活軌跡是不斷再製父權的『家』」，研究參與者公私領域的界線拿捏，受到親職/男性角色社會化、性別分工區隔、養育資源挹注的性別不均、和「嫁出去的女兒潑出去的水」等影響，深化家事和父（親）職參與的退位，並在男性世代內╱間的自立與自利循環，不斷再製男性價值認同與「家」經驗意義的一體兩面。
而晚年又進入安養中心「公領域」，其生活適應與地方依附情形受男性特質、年齡、婚姻狀況和族群認同交織的作用，凸顯晚年的人地關係適切性在於社會因素與關係性空間的調適，保護因子包括婚姻狀況、生命史、內在性和過去地方依附的可近性。本研究發現安養中心內的地方依附立基於社會依附，因而建議提供住民「維持身份角色認同」方案，及採持續照顧和社會融入的管理觀點以強化住民發展地方歸屬感。The meaning of “home” varies in regard to one''s gender. This concept''s gender-oriented nature has long received considerable attention from researchers as it relates to women. However, in so far as this concept is perceived and experienced by men is little studied. While the cultural practices of patriarchy, patrilineality, and patrilocality characterize the kinship system of Chinese society, shaping myriad aspects of life including gender disparity regarding division of labor within the household, quality of life, self-identity, and the conceptualization of “home,” it is the relocation in latter life stages of elderly men to retiree housing and the consequential changes that pose challenges in regard to the aforementioned and other aspects relating to what is “home” for these men. This study examines the concept of home and attachment to place of recent entries into these communities by locally born elderly retirees.
Using the analytical framework of the home-conceptualization process as utilized by Watkins and Hosier (2005) and that of life-course perspective (Elder, 1994), this study examines the life-long experiences of men regarding their concept of “home” and their attachment to place, thus posing an overall question regarding if they feel settled or still uprooted from their original home, who reside in urban housing for the elderly. The participants in this study comprise a group of seven men, all born during the Japanese colonial era (1895-1945), two of whom are widowers living in a single room and five of whom are married living with their spouse in two-room housing. Their mean age is 77 while their average length of stay in their current housing is 2.3 years. Data was collected using semi-structured in-depth interviews, by the researcher, recorded and transcribed verbatim in Chinese, and then analyzed discursively. The findings are presented in three sections of this thesis: Hometown? Older Men’s Living Trajectories; Residential Mobility of Men: A Life Course Perspective; and Simply a Residence: Transitioning from Community Living to Elderly Independent Living.
The research findings suggest that these men’s life trajectories are a reproduction of the norms of patriarchy, showing a dichotomy between the private and public spheres as mediated by gender role and parenting socializations, division of labor in their households, gender disparity in their distribution of educational resources, and an affirmation of traditional preference toward male offspring. As such they offer an explanation of non-committed (absentee) parenting focused rather on male self-interests, intra- and inter-generationally, reflecting a uniquely male perspective of “home.” While moving into retiree housing, seen by them as more of a semi-public sphere, their living adjustments and attachment to place are the intersectionality of multiple identifications of masculinity, generation, and “ethnicity” or regional background, featuring a personal-environment fit in latter life as affected by insulating, intrinsic social factors inclusive of marital status, life history, in-group/out-group positioning and accessibility to past attachment to place, of which social attachment is a key influencing factor. This study''s recommendations include provision of an identity maintenance programme and an extended care continuum, as well as implementation of social inclusion measures to enhance a sense of belonging to place of current residence
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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