Papers by Deborah van den Hoonaard
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The Journal of Bahá’í Studies
Bahá’ís the world over view ‘Abdu’l-Bahá not only as the Centre of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant but as ... more Bahá’ís the world over view ‘Abdu’l-Bahá not only as the Centre of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant but as the Exemplar of how we should live. However, although the images and stories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that come to mind for many of us are from the period of His life after His release from prison at the age of sixty-five, we don’t often think about Him as an old man. This article summarizes the nature and impact of ageism and how we learn to be old by the way people treat us. It explores how ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s example informs our own lives given the prevalence of ageism in Western society.
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The Journal of Bahá’í Studies
Bahá’ís the world over view ‘Abdu’l-Bahá not only as the Centre of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant but as ... more Bahá’ís the world over view ‘Abdu’l-Bahá not only as the Centre of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant but as the Exemplar of how we should live. However, although the images and stories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that come to mind for many of us are from the period of His life after His release from prison at the age of sixty-five, we don’t often think about Him as an old man. This article summarizes the nature and impact of ageism and how we learn to be old by the way people treat us. It explores how ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s example informs our own lives given the prevalence of ageism in Western society. This paper is a slightly edited version of a presentation offered at the 2021 Annual Conference of the Association for Bahá’í Studies.
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Now in its second edition, Qualitative Research in Action continues to off students and unparalle... more Now in its second edition, Qualitative Research in Action continues to off students and unparalleled introduction to the fascinating world of qualitative research. . . [It} brings the research process to life by exploring a wide array of examples drawn from actual studies.
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Research on Aging, 2002
This article adds to research on retirement communities, which has primarily looked at them at on... more This article adds to research on retirement communities, which has primarily looked at them at one stage in their development and assumed that a homogeneous population as a background variable contributes to high levels of social integration and a strong sense of community. It presents the situation of three groups who live in a 10-year-old Florida retirement community—snowbirds, newcomers, and widows and widowers. Members of these three groups live on the social margins of the community. The article examines both the structures within the community and the social processes that create an invisible boundary that puts marginal residents on the outside. It concludes that increasing diversity is inevitable and that homogeneity or lack thereof is in the eye of the beholder. Findings are based on participant observation and in-depth interviews.
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Ageing and Society, 2009
ABSTRACTThis article analyses the strategies that older widowers used to assert their masculinity... more ABSTRACTThis article analyses the strategies that older widowers used to assert their masculinity during in-depth research interviews by the author, a middle-aged woman. Twenty-six widowers living in Atlantic Canada and Florida in the United States and who were aged from 56 to 91 years participated in the study. The author analysed the interviews from a symbolic-interactionist perspective that looks at the world from the perspective of those being studied. The widowers used various strategies of impression management to reinforce their identity as ‘real men’ during the interviews. These strategies included taking charge of the interview, using personal diminutives and endearments to assert control, lecturing the interviewer about various topics including differences between men and women, and bringing attention to their heterosexuality by referring to themselves as bachelors and commenting on increased attention from women. The paper chronicles the process of discovery of the import...
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Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
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Qualitative Sociology Review, 2013
Recent years have seen tremendous growth of interest in narrative approaches to research in both ... more Recent years have seen tremendous growth of interest in narrative approaches to research in both the social sciences and the humanities. Much of this research focuses on the stories of individuals and how they tell them. This article addresses the contribution of a symbolic interactionist approach to develop the “collective story” (Richardson 1990) through the use of sensitizing concepts. It focuses on research on the experience of widows, widowers, and Iranian Bahá’í refugees to Canada to demonstrate how one can use sensitizing concepts to craft a collective story of members of marginalized populations that sit at the bottom of the “hierarchy of credibility” (Becker 1967).
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 2020
RÉSUMÉLa pandémie de la COVID-19 et l’état d’urgence publique qui en a découlé ont eu des répercu... more RÉSUMÉLa pandémie de la COVID-19 et l’état d’urgence publique qui en a découlé ont eu des répercussions significatives sur les personnes âgées au Canada et à travers le monde. Il est impératif que le domaine de la gérontologie réponde efficacement à cette situation. Dans la présente déclaration, les membres du conseil d’administration de l’Association canadienne de gérontologie/Canadian Association on Gerontology (ACG/CAG) et ceux du comité de rédaction de La Revue canadienne du vieillissement/Canadian Journal on Aging (RCV/CJA) reconnaissent la contribution des membres de l’ACG/CAG et des lecteurs de la RCV/CJA. Les auteurs exposent les voies complexes par lesquelles la COVID-19 affecte les personnes âgées, allant du niveau individuel au niveau populationnel. Ils préconisent une approche impliquant des équipes collaboratives pluridisciplinaires, regroupant divers champs de compétences, et différentes perspectives et méthodes d’évaluation de l’impact de la COVID-19.
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The Journal of Baha’i Studies, 1994
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Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, 2010
ABSTRACT This essay uses the divergent experiences of the author, a middle-aged woman, at her hom... more ABSTRACT This essay uses the divergent experiences of the author, a middle-aged woman, at her home in Atlantic Canada and while visiting Florida to discuss how a woman learns to be old through interaction with others. It describes how her experiences in retirement-community laden south Florida, where she was 25 years younger than everyone else, made the better treatment that younger people receive obvious to her in a new way. At the same time she learned that the really old people are ignored in ways that are hard to overlook.
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Ways of Aging
... for the most part, confined to marriage, and they did not want to" crawl into bed with s... more ... for the most part, confined to marriage, and they did not want to" crawl into bed with somebody"(Emily) because" there ... 194 Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard became a widow. ... Because Muriel assumed that she would not be able to set the clock, she let the light blink on ...
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Journal of Aging Studies, 2013
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Journal of Aging Studies, 1994
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Journal of Aging Studies, 2005
ABSTRACT This article explores older widows' strategies as participants in qualitative in... more ABSTRACT This article explores older widows' strategies as participants in qualitative interviews. Older women often do not think that their experiences are of value to others, and their comments reflect this belief. In addition, they attempt to transform the interview into a social occasion. Their strategies include asking whether or not they are doing a good job as research participants, suggesting that their talk may be unimportant, uttering concerns that their stories might be too negative, and altering the social context by taking on the role of hostess during the interview. There is much to be learned from interviewing members of stigmatized groups whose voices are often silent or ignored both by researchers and society in general and from an awareness of the uncertainty with which they approach the research encounter.
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Journal of Aging Studies, 1999
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