Résultats de recherche

1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«This article [explores] neighbourhood attachment (and detachment) of young immigrant and non-immigrant middle-class families living in two ‘ordinary’ middle-class neighbourhoods in recent ethnic transition […].» (p. 2569)

Questions/Hypothèses :
«Since middle-class families have generally less constraints over their mobility and they have the relative economic capital to afford to choose where they live, how and why are they electing to live in ‘average’, ‘ordinary’ middle-class neighbourhoods? How do they engage in their neighbourhoods and how do they live with changes in social and ethnic composition of their neighbourhoods? Around what is their neighbourhood attachment based? Does living in the suburb or the city centre have an impact on neighbourhood attachment and neighbourhood uses?» (p. 2569)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«This study is based on 51 in-depth interviews with young families in two neighbourhoods: Ahuntsic, a peri-central inner-city neighbourhood of Montreal, and Vimont-Auteuil in the City of Laval, a suburb of Montreal. […] The 51 households interviewed a total of 66 individuals, all consisted of married or cohabiting couples with children between the ages of 0 and 15 years and residing at home.» (p. 2571)

Instruments :
Guide d’entretien

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse de contenu

3. Résumé

«Our results confirm that neighbourhood still matters nowadays for middle-class families, as it plays a central role in family-oriented decisions regarding daily life, neighbourhood choice and neighbourhood attachment.» (p. 2576) «Our case study […] showed how families display neighbourhood attachment through an extensive use of neighbourhood amenities (physical), in addition to embedded social ties (social) and distinctive lifestyles and identities (symbolic).» (p. 2578) «[W]e argue that living in the suburbs and in the city each embodies distinct representations, values and identities of middle-class family life that translate into distinct forms of neighbourhood attachment.» (p. 2576-2577) «Neighbourhood attachment of middle-classes is tied up to how they (want to) identify themselves and with places, and how they (wish to) conduct their everyday life in ways that encompass solely the production and reproduction of class and social status. It is also based on the expectations vis-à-vis middle-classes’ lifestyles and representations of family life in which the city and the suburbs are still portrayed differently by urban and suburban households.» (p. 2579) Additionally, «[d]espite reticent and ambivalent reactions over the growing ethnic diversity […] of previously homogeneous neighbourhoods, almost none of the families interviewed claimed it was a turning point that would lead them to move out of the neighbourhood […].» (p. 2579)

1. Objectifs

Intentions :
L’objectif de l’auteure est d’exposer les fondements philosophiques et sociaux de la modulation des tarifs en service de garde incluse dans le projet de loi 28 et de proposer une autre option plus équitable.

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Données documentaires diverses

Type de traitement des données :
Réflexion critique

3. Résumé

L’auteure remet en question le bien-fondé de la modulation des tarifs de service de garde en soulignant «l’intérêt de classe qui les sous-tend.» (p. 201) Pour appuyer son argument, l’auteure cite Nancy Fraser une chercheure de la New School for Social Research de New York, qui valorise «une politique familiale juste, équitable, efficace et souple [qui] repose sur une conception humaniste des soins, de la solidarité et de la diversité des compétences et des aspirations, ainsi que sur la compréhension fine des besoins des familles, des parents et des enfants.» (p. 204) L’auteure note que la politique familiale québécoise «fait du parent travailleur sa figure centrale [et qu’elle] accorde peu de place à l’expression des choix et des valeurs individuels vis-à-vis de la famille, du travail rémunéré et de leur conciliation.» (p. 205) L’auteure conclut en émettant des recommandations concernant les tarifs de service de garde: «[l]a modulation des tarifs de garde devrait s’accompagner d’un soutien inédit aux familles qui prennent soin elles-mêmes de leurs enfants. Elle devrait également s’accompagner de la gratuité pour les familles aux plus faibles revenus […] et par le gel des tarifs pour les autres familles. Elle ne devrait se traduire en une augmentation de la contribution des parents que chez les mieux nantis […].» (p. 209)

1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«Bon an, mal an, environ 20 000 personnes quittent la Ville de Montréal pour s’établir en banlieue. Dans ce contexte de concurrence pour attirer les jeunes ménages, nous nous sommes penchés sur les choix résidentiels de familles de la classe moyenne en faveur de la ville centrale ou de la banlieue.» (p. 105)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
L’étude est basée sur la participation de 51 familles (24 dans Vimont-Auteuil et 27 dans Ahuntsic). L’auteure mentionne que dans la mesure du possible, les deux parents étaient présents.

Instruments :
Guide d’entretien semi-directif

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse de contenu

3. Résumé

«Au-delà du prix des logements, les choix résidentiels des familles sont liés aux représentations de la ville et de la banlieue, aux usages du quartier et du chez-soi, à leur mobilité quotidienne, leur identité, et en somme leurs modes de vie. Les images négatives de la vie de famille en ville véhiculées par les banlieusards de même que la vision stéréotypée de la banlieue dépeinte par les urbains donnent à penser que l’opposition ville/banlieue est loin d’être caduque, du moins dans les représentations que s’en font encore aujourd’hui les jeunes familles de la classe moyenne.» (p. 105)

1. Objectifs

Intentions :
« While we know a great deal about the role religion played in institutions in Victorian Canada, its place in home and family life has remained relatively unexplored. [...] Marguerite Van Die depicts religion as ’lived experience’ in a
portrait of a Protestant middle-class family in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. » (quatrième de couverture)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
« Family papers and material culture » (quatrième de couverture)

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse de contenu

3. Résumé

« We need to know more about the connections that college-educated middle-class Protestants made between the world in which they lived and their perceptions of God. Did those perceptions change as people began to experience time and space differently under the impact of new technologies, new communications systems, and increased consumerism? What motivated lay people to invest so heavily in religious and moral institutions once they were no longer supported by the state through religious establishment? Did religious concerns have any influence on the economic and political strategies of middle-class families to ensure their well-being and continuity? It has been observed that in Canada ’Confederation was an offspring of secular statesmanship, born of political and economic necessity, fathered by politicians and railway promoters. Its purpose was not to create a covenant people or to hasten the coming of the kingdom of God.’ We know little, however, about the ways in which evangelicals made connections in private and public life between their moral convictions and the economic policies of the new Canadian nation. In short, how did religion interact with other aspects of peoples’s lives - the day-to-day demands of keeping a house and caring for one’s family, coping with death and loss, advancing a family’s economic and social interests, and shaping individual and family identity in the local community and the nation? [...] The study that follows is an entry - a kind of ’preliminary probe’ - into these and related questions. It is a case study of three generations of an evangelical and unabshedly middle-class family, the Colbys of Stanstead, Quebec. Members of Canada’s emerging economic elite, they were active contributors to their local community and, through elected political office, to public life in early post-Confederation Canada. » (pp. 10-11)