Becoming a 'Legitimate' Ancestor: A Sociocultural Understanding of a Sonless Jamnyeo's Life Story
| Autor: | Gui-Young Hong |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Asia
family family cycle Far East descriptive study biography Ethnologie Kulturanthropologie Ethnosoziologie deskriptive Studie Südkorea soziokulturelle Faktoren soziokulturelle Verankerung Erzählung und Nacherzählung kollektive kulturelle Ideale persönliche Kulturen verbindende Konstrukte Positionierung persönliche Veränderung sociocultural embeddedness storytelling and re-telling collective cultural ideals personal cultures joint construction positioning personal transformation enraizamiento sociocultural narración y re-narrar ideales culturales colectivos culturas personales construcción conjunta posicionamiento transformación person Familienzyklus South Korea Frau sozialer Status lcsh:Social sciences (General) Social sciences sociology anthropology Biographie Ostasien Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Ethnology Cultural Anthropology Ethnosociology Asien social status Familie woman ddc:300 lcsh:H1-99 sociocultural factors |
| Zdroj: | Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Vol 5, Iss 3 (2004) |
| DOI: | 10.17169/fqs-5.3.565 |
| Popis: | The retrospective reflections of a sixty two year old sonless widow jamnyeo (traditional career ocean diving woman on Jeju Island, South Korea) on her experiences as a marginal figure in her late husband's family are examined from sociocultural perspectives. This paper presents sociocultural interpretative analyses of the jamnyeo's life events and her experiences lived in the island's historical and sociocultural contexts. Analyses focus on three theoretical notions: sociocultural embeddedness, continuity and discontinuity between collective and personal cultures, and joint constructions. The jamnyeo's storytelling and life story, from the perspective of sociocultural theory, reveals active, goal-oriented attempts to transform her marginal social position into a culturally virtuous one of "legitimate" ancestor. On an individual plane, the jamnyeo subjectively transformed sociocultural voices demanding virtuous womanhood into mediational tools catalyzing and facilitating her life-long struggle to transform her social position from the margins to the center of her husband's family. On a sociocultural plane, her story reveals the dualistic nature of sociocultural voices both as forces; guiding, influencing, and structuring the ways individuals construct and reconstruct their lives; and as products which active social agents construct and transform. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0403198 Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Vol 5, No 3 (2004): Special Issue: FQS Interviews I |
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