{"title":"Quantified Sleep: Self-Tracking Technologies and the Reshaping of 21<sup>st</sup>-Century Subjectivity.","authors":"Diletta De Cristofaro, Simona Chiodo","doi":"10.12759/hsr.48.2023.21","DOIUrl":"10.12759/hsr.48.2023.21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Taking sleep-tracking as its case study, this article seeks to theorise the understandings of the self that are at stake in the the Quantified Self (QS) movement and everyday self-tracking practices by bringing together a cultural theorist's and a philosopher's perspectives. We situate the rise of sleep-tracking practices within the sleep crisis discourse, namely, the sense that in today's society sleep disorders are on the rise and sleep deprivation is rife. Through analyses of self-trackers' blogs about sleep, sleep-tracking technologies' marketing information, and the functionalities of these devices and apps, we argue that the drive to self-improve at the heart of self- and sleep-tracking props up an understanding of the self centred around achievement. This understanding ends up devaluing sleep and risks contributing to the sleep crisis. We show how these paradoxes can be further understood from an epistemological perspective. Self- and sleep-tracking are arguably practices that seek to obtain knowledge by trading referential expert knowledge for self-referential nonexpert knowledge and that strive for self-optimisation by self-sabotaging achievement subjectivity. We conclude that the use of self-tracking technologies magnifies what is essentially a crisis of subjectivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"48 2","pages":"176-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614767/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10189548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rand D Conger, Thomas K Schofield, Katherine J Conger, Tricia K Neppl
{"title":"Economic Pressure, Parent Personality and Child Development: An Interactionist Analysis.","authors":"Rand D Conger, Thomas K Schofield, Katherine J Conger, Tricia K Neppl","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current economic downturn in the U.S. and around the world has refocused attention on the processes through which families and children are affected by economic hardship. This study examines the response to economic pressure of a cohort of youth first studied 20 years ago as adolescents and now grown to adulthood. A total of 271 of the original G2 adolescents (M age = 25.6 years) participated in the study with their young child (G3, M age = 2.31 years at the first time of assessment) and the child's other parent in 81% of the cases. Data analyses were guided by the interactionist model which proposed that positive G2 personality attributes during adolescence would predict lower economic pressure during adulthood and would diminish the negative family processes related to economic pressure expected to disrupt competent G3 development. The findings were consistent with this social selection aspect of the interactionist model. The model also predicted that economic pressure and other aspects of the related family stress process would affect G3 development net of earlier G2 personality. This social causation aspect of the interactionist model also received support. The findings suggest that the relationship between economic conditions and child development reflect a dynamic process of selection and causation that plays out over time and generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"35 2","pages":"169-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014255/pdf/nihms168369.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29578160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Conger, Thomas K Schofield, K. Conger, T. Neppl
{"title":"Economic Pressure, Parent Personality and Child Development: An Interactionist Analysis.","authors":"R. Conger, Thomas K Schofield, K. Conger, T. Neppl","doi":"10.12759/HSR.35.2010.2.169-194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12759/HSR.35.2010.2.169-194","url":null,"abstract":"The current economic downturn in the U.S. and around the world has refocused attention on the processes through which families and children are affected by economic hardship. This study examines the response to economic pressure of a cohort of youth first studied 20 years ago as adolescents and now grown to adulthood. A total of 271 of the original G2 adolescents (M age = 25.6 years) participated in the study with their young child (G3, M age = 2.31 years at the first time of assessment) and the child's other parent in 81% of the cases. Data analyses were guided by the interactionist model which proposed that positive G2 personality attributes during adolescence would predict lower economic pressure during adulthood and would diminish the negative family processes related to economic pressure expected to disrupt competent G3 development. The findings were consistent with this social selection aspect of the interactionist model. The model also predicted that economic pressure and other aspects of the related family stress process would affect G3 development net of earlier G2 personality. This social causation aspect of the interactionist model also received support. The findings suggest that the relationship between economic conditions and child development reflect a dynamic process of selection and causation that plays out over time and generations.","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"35 2 1","pages":"169-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66484920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[\"These victims of racial persecution believe they can do whatever they want\": denunciations between refugees and the established population in the Stade region, 1945-49].","authors":"S Abke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"26 2-3","pages":"102-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28613960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Kinetic analysis of historical processes: the model case of the health care system].","authors":"P Ridder","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"25 1","pages":"49-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27358530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Secure retirement or increased risk of poverty? Assistance for persons receiving small pensions in the Weimar Republic following war and inflation].","authors":"J Reichel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"24 1","pages":"32-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29624338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The retreat of death: the epidemiological transition in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries].","authors":"R. Spree","doi":"10.12759/HSR.23.1998.1/2.4-43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12759/HSR.23.1998.1/2.4-43","url":null,"abstract":"\"Using the concept of the epidemiologic transition, this paper examines the long-term changes in morbidity and mortality in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth century. It focuses on the duration of the transitional phases and their main characteristics by investigating age specific mortality rates and causes-of-death. Applying epidemiological methods such as mean age of death and potential years of life lost will contribute to understand better the epidemiologic transition and its causes from the late nineteenth century onwards. These methods have so far hardly been applied in historical research. They will be related to the causes of death which have been grouped together in 15 categories.\" (EXCERPT)","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"23 1-2 1","pages":"4-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66460035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Different household formation systems in Hungary at the end of the eighteenth century: variations on John Hajnal's thesis.","authors":"T Farago","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"John Hajnal's pathbreaking paper about the European marriage patterns and his household formation theory provoked high interest [among] researchers even far beyond the border of the historical demographic research. Examining them through the Hungarian sources we can say that both the declared factors and variables of household formation and their regional strength and territorial distribution cannot be interpreted unanimously and adequately with the rules established by John Hajnal. Maybe it is better not to think in universalistic regimes but, moreover, adapt a regional and temporal frame of reference.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"23 1-2","pages":"83-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147876706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characteristics of European family and household systems.","authors":"R. Wall","doi":"10.12759/HSR.23.1998.1/2.44-66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12759/HSR.23.1998.1/2.44-66","url":null,"abstract":"\"This article establishes that there was considerable diversity in the size and composition of the kin group within the household that is not captured by the conventional classification of family systems according to the relative proportions of simple and complex household forms. Three case studies are presented from England, Corsica and Hungary. English households fulfilled an important welfare role in that they incorporated relatives and non-relatives who were not members of core families-- couples or parent(s) and unmarried child(ren). The societies of Corsica and Hungary provided a greater proportion of their populations with membership of a core family.\"","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"23 1-2 1","pages":"44-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66460063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small town development and urban illiteracy: comparative evidence from Leicestershire marriage registers 1754-1890.","authors":"M. Hoyler","doi":"10.12759/HSR.23.1998.1/2.202-230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12759/HSR.23.1998.1/2.202-230","url":null,"abstract":"\"Based on the analysis of Anglican marriage registers for the period 1754 to 1890, the article explores patterns of illiteracy in three small Leicestershire [England] towns with contrasting economic functions. Illiteracy levels were closely related to urban occupational and social structures, which also affected distinct gender differentials. Evidence [of] the effect of literacy on age at marriage and marriage distance suggests that demographic behaviour and spatial interaction were determined more by socio-economic factors than by the possession of literacy skills. Literacy attainment, however, was linked to extended marriage distances when both spouses could sign the register.\"","PeriodicalId":73243,"journal":{"name":"Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research","volume":"23 1/2 1","pages":"202-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66459283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}