Lynn Jamieson

From 1975 specific information has been collected for every 5th client who attends the Edinburgh Brook Advisory Center for the 1st time. The Center is a clinic providing contraceptive advice, pregnancy advice, and counseling on sexual concerns and oriented particularly to the needs of young people. As a result of the sustained and systematic data collection, there is a 1 in 5 sample from 1975-80 of new clients to the clinic. Background characteristics are recorded along with details concerning clients' service use and information about how the client learned about the clinic. The data is currently held on computer and is analyzed using the software package Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Throughout the discussion, specific reference is made to younger clients, that is to clients under age 20. Due to the fact that Brook users may be unrepresentative of the age group as a whole, generalizations may not be made. It is only pssible to generalize about the type of teenager seen at the Brook Center. The Center sees about 2000 new clients each year and serves an almost exclusively female population. Approximately 20 men attend the clinic each year. Throughout the 1975-80 period, the new client population varied little with regard to age, marital status, and residence. About 86% of women paying a 1st visit were single, and the majority were 21 years of age or under. Around 40% were teenagers. 84% were nulliparous in 1980. Most of the young women came from Edinburgh, but roughly 1/4 came from outside the city. 2/3 of the clients heard about the clinic from someone they knew, a friend or relative who was often a Brook client. In 1975 Brook publicity accounted for 17% of the referrals. In 1980 general practitioner referrals accounted for 7% of new clients. The majority of clients came to the clinic to receive contraception, but a substantial minority attended because they were pregnant or suspected they might be pregnant. Of those clients obtaining contraception, the vast majority chose oral contraceptives (OCs). In 1975, 91% of clients obtaining contraception left with some form of OC compared to 85% at the end of the period. The decrease was more marked for older clients. The decrease in the popularity of the combined pill was offset somewhat by the increased use of the progestogen only pill. Despite the shifts, the vast majority of clients continued to use some form of OC. In 1980 a quarter of sexually experienced new clients reported no form of contraception more effective than withdrawal. In 1980 over 1/3 of the sexually experienced teenage clients reported no contraception other than withdrawal. The 2 most popular methods were condoms and OC, together accounting for about 90% of contraception use.

Aims and objectives: This paper explores children’s experiences and perceptions of their own bilingualism in two contexts in Scotland, UK: a primary school with a high proportion of children using a language other than English at home; and a primary school where the language of instruction is an indigenous, minority language, Gaelic. Methodology: The paper draws upon data gathered from multiple qualitative methods, including interviews, group activities and discussion, with both children and their parents. The data in this paper draw upon a broader interdisciplinary project exploring children’s experiences of bilingualism. Ethics were duly considered. Data and analysis: Data were gathered from 27 children and 11 parents. Data were coded and analysed using thematic analysis. Comparison between contexts was of particular interest for this article. Findings: This paper highlights the importance of research with children in order to gain an insight into their experiences and perceptions...

In the wake of the diverse mobilization for Yes in the 2014 Independence Referendum and unprecedented SNP gains in the 2015 General Election, a number of commentators deployed a rhetoric of ‘dangerous nationalism’ by way of explanation and criticism. Such an interpretation is refuted by survey evidence and complicated by sociologies of nationalism and national identity. This short article joins these debates, and presents analysis of ten explorative interviews conducted with young Yes voters between the Referendum and the General Election. There is no simple narrative of ‘nationalism’ in these young people's accounts. Some explicitly distanced themselves from nationalist sentiment, emphasising a commitment to social justice as their key motivation for Yes. Others shared this primary concern but expressed it as overlapping with a national(ist) identity in complex ways. While disavowals of ‘romantic’ or ‘narrow’ nationalism occur on both sides of the independence debate, this stud...

... Identity» by Lynn Jamieson Source: Sociology Slovak Sociological Review (Sociológia Slovak Sociological Review), issue: 6 / 2002, pages: 506532, on www.ceeol.com. Page 2. ... Lynn Jamieson2 Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh ...

In the UK, more children than ever before are being brought up by parents who are engaged in some form of paid employment outside the home (Philo et al. 2008). This change has been met with interest by academics, policy-makers and indeed employers, with particular concern about how the demands of work and family are managed by parents and the impact this has on children’s lives. The challenges of reconciling the competing demands of paid work and family life on parents’ time have been acknowledged at a political level (OECD 2007) and research has offered insights into how the competing frameworks of work and family are constructed and managed by parents (Daly 2001, Cunningham-Burley et al. 2006, Backett-Milburn et al. 2008, Ba 2010). In particular it has been noted that working parents express a feeling of being ‘harried’ (Southerton and Tomlinson 2005), of being constantly busy (Brannen 2005) and of their time being ‘squeezed’ (Southerton 2003).

This working paper brings together the reflections of a wide range of international researchers to explore, showcase and reflect critically on the potentials and challenges of analysing large volumes of complex qualitative, and qualitative longitudinal (QLR) data, including archived material. Big Qual analysis is a new area for qualitative work and there is little guidance on how best to work with masses of qualitative material. The working paper comprises a set of blogs housed in the ‘Big Qual Analysis Resource Hub’ (http://bigqlr.ncrm.ac.uk/). We created this website to map the progress of our ESRC National Centre for Research Methods research project ‘Working across qualitative longitudinal studies: a feasibility study looking at care and intimacy’ (2015-2019). As part of the project we developed procedures for working with multiple sets of in-depth temporal qualitative data (see Davidson et al. 2019; Edwards et al. 2019 for discussion of our methodological findings). We have gat...

The claims that locality, kinship, and social class are no longer the basis of ties that bind and of limited significance for identity in late modernity, remain seductive, despite their critics. Those who remain rooted are then presented as inhabitants of traditional backwaters, outside the mainstream of social change. This article presents young people's reasons for leaving or remaining in a rural area of Britain, the Scottish Borders. Young people's views about migration and attachment demonstrate a contradictory and more complex pattern than that of detached late-modern migrants and traditional backwater stay-at-homes. These stereotypes have some resonance in local culture, for example in disdain for rootless incomers lacking real sympathy with ‘the community’ and in the common accusation of the parochial narrow mindedness of locals who have never been elsewhere. However, such stereotypes emerge from complex social class antagonisms and cross-cutting ties to locality. Man...

Action, Reaction, Inaction? Young Adults’ Citizenship in Britain. This paper examines young adults’ orientations to citizenship in Britain, drawing on surveys of random samples of 18-24 year olds. A range of experiences, behaviour and attitudes are explored including: citizenship education, voting, attitude to voting, party affiliation, participation in clubs and societies and engagement with social and political issues. These questions have been asked at a time when citizenship is on many agendas and there is much concern about the apparent apathy of young people regarding local, national and supranational issues. In Britain, some commentators hoped that the advent of a Scottish parliament would help re-engage young people in Scotland with politics and citizenship. This paper compares young people living in Edinburgh, Scotland with young people living in Manchester, an equivalent sized city in England. Like previous research, our data show that while young people are interested in ...

There has been a lot of public concern around the low rate of punishment for the offence of rape. It is a well-established fact that most know rapes do not result in the conviction of an offender. A central issue for this talk is whether we can conclude from this that the criminal justice system is failing women who have suffered a sexual assault. Obviously this depends on how we construe failure. Would a low prosecution rate or a low conviction rate necessarily mean failure if it is an outcome of a system in which everybody involved strives to convict the guilty while observing current understandings of best practice in terms of protecting the rights of both victims and accused persons? That would obviously be a very different sort of failure from systems in which efforts are routinely half hearted or which is less able to honour current understandings of good practice. It can be observed at the outset, that whatever sort of failure a low conviction rate for serious sexual offences...

This article explores the way people from different age cohorts and genders talk about home moves to contribute a rounded and nuanced relational understanding. We draw on a secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data from multiple archived studies, using a breadth-and-depth analytic approach. Conceptually, we apply a linked lives perspective that understands home moves as tied to sets of social relationships and involving the navigation of structural circumstances. We identify complex discrete and serial small stories where moving away from or returning to is interdependently linked to others staying put, and staying put to others’ home moves, at local, intra-national, and trans-national levels. Home moves are shaped structurally by gender and age cohort generation. Home and moving tend to be more salient in women’s accounts, articulating with familial generation as their own and others’ comings and goings accumulated over their lifetime. Structural issues are also evident i...

SOCIOLOGY Vol. 21 No. 4 November 1987 591-607 THEORIES OF FAMILY DEVELOPMENT AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING BROUGHT UP Lynn Jamieson Abstract A remarkable variety of academic treatments of family life are in broad agreement as to the processes of ...

The substantive concerns and theoretical insights of sociologies of family, intimate and personal life ought to place this body of work in closer dialogue with environmental sociology over the ‘big issue’ of climate change. However, its research active practitioners typically have a narrower repertoire of engagement with global issues and those who are outside the topic area often miss the value of its contributions. This article discusses common ground between this specialist area and sociologies of environmental issues in unpacking processes of social change through empirically grounded theoretical work. This includes the renewed theoretical emphasis on relationality, empirically based critique of the ‘individualisation thesis’, uses of ‘practice’ to transcend ‘micro’–‘macro’ and ‘social’–‘natural’ divisions, and interest in I/we boundary shifts. More fully recognising the potential of this overlapping territory may help leverage more effective sociological responses to the global...

Sociological debates on youth engagement with electoral politics play out against a backdrop of supposed 'decline' in civic participation (e.g. Putnam , Norris, ), in turn contextualized by theories of individualization in 'late' or 'reflexive' modernity (Beck, Giddens). However, the enfranchisement of 16 and 17 year olds in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum catalysed remarkably high levels of voter turnout among this youngest group, and was accompanied by apparently ongoing political engagement. We explored this engagement among a strategic sample of young 'Yes' voters, in the immediate aftermath of this exceptional political event. Analysis of qualitative interview data generated an unanticipated finding; that interviewees narrated their political engagement biographically, articulated their referendum participation reflexively, and located their new political ideas, allegiances and actions in the context of their own transitions to 'ind...