"Being a Good Grandmother": the Normative Expectations Attached to the Role of Grandmother in Czech Families Today

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2015.51.5.212" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2015.51.5.212</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

"Být dobrou babičkou" - normativní očekávání spojená s rolí babičky v současné české rodině

Original language description

This article focuses on two generations of women in the Czech Republic who are currently mothers or grandmothers of young children. Based on interviews that were carried out with 20 mothers and 20 grandmothers of children under the age of 10, the articleanalyses what kinds of expectations are attached to the role of grandmother and how the norm of 'good' grandmother is constructed by different generations of women. The author identifies three strong norms of grandmothering: the norm of non-interference, the norm of constant availability, and the norm of activity. The narratives of both the mothers and the grandmothers reflected a strong 'gendered contact' between the two generations, which is based on a generational transfer of caring responsibilities. A new norm, the norm of activity, is mainly constructed by mothers and it involves the idea that a 'good' grandmother provides not just instrumental care but above all 'adventures'. Both the mothers and the grandmothers pointed out how

Czech name

"Být dobrou babičkou" - normativní očekávání spojená s rolí babičky v současné české rodině

Czech description

This article focuses on two generations of women in the Czech Republic who are currently mothers or grandmothers of young children. Based on interviews that were carried out with 20 mothers and 20 grandmothers of children under the age of 10, the articleanalyses what kinds of expectations are attached to the role of grandmother and how the norm of 'good' grandmother is constructed by different generations of women. The author identifies three strong norms of grandmothering: the norm of non-interference, the norm of constant availability, and the norm of activity. The narratives of both the mothers and the grandmothers reflected a strong 'gendered contact' between the two generations, which is based on a generational transfer of caring responsibilities. A new norm, the norm of activity, is mainly constructed by mothers and it involves the idea that a 'good' grandmother provides not just instrumental care but above all 'adventures'. Both the mothers and the grandmothers pointed out how

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-09399P" target="_blank" >GP13-09399P: Practices and meanings of grandparenting in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociologický časopis

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

737-760

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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