Role Overolad And Performative Void: On Social Roles of Third
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Role Overolad And Performative Void: On Social Roles of Third Age (poster)

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela, Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ and Lucie GALČANOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Role Overolad And Performative Void: On Social Roles of Third Age (poster)

Authors

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Lucie GALČANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

IAGG-ER Congress, Dublin, 23-26 April 2015, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50401 Sociology

Country of publisher

Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/15:00080784

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

role overload; performative void; third age; social roles

Abstract

V originále

Background: The longer and healthier lives of young-olds are creating need for new social roles of older people and change of perception of “traditional” ones. At the same time, when social policies stress the socio-economically productive roles, many young-olds are performing various roles with different time and energy requirements in family and community. Usually these roles are studied separately or in simple dyads, such as the worker-care provider, but everyday praxis is based on almost simultaneous performance of the whole role set. What roles do young-olds engage in, how do they build their role-sets? Do they experience role-overload and what strategies they use to cope with it? Methods: We use mix methods to answer these questions: (1)analysis of representative survey „Life roles“conducted in 2014 in Czech population aged 50-70 years (N =730); and (2)qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with active ageing grandparents (N=23). Results: confirm that majority of young-olds perform various family roles, combining them with work, care provision and leisure. About 35% of the sample claims to be in the position of role overload, with roles of a worker and a patient being most often quoted as the primary source. Grandparent role is regarded as the one bringing most joy, but it is time limited, leaving “perfomative void”. Conclusions: The study of performance of the role-set considerably enriches the search for key to unlock the demographic dividend, as it provides deeper understanding of role overload experienced by active-agers and shows the function of performative void of selected roles.

Links

GA13-34958S, research and development project

Name: Přetížená role: prarodiče v době aktivního stárnutí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela, Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ and Lucie GALČANOVÁ. Role Overolad And Performative Void: On Social Roles of Third Age (poster). In IAGG-ER Congress, Dublin, 23-26 April 2015. 2015.

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PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela, Lucie VIDOVI$\backslash$'COVÁ and Lucie GALČANOVÁ. Role Overolad And Performative Void: On Social Roles of Third Age (poster). In \textit{IAGG-ER Congress, Dublin, 23-26 April 2015}. 2015.

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