Patterns of lifecourse participation: insights from the National Child Development Survey cohort
Patterns of lifecourse participation: insights from the National Child Development Survey cohort
Data from a mixed methods study of the 1958 NCDS cohort is used to explore distinctive long term patterns of participation and volunteering (consistent participators, non-participants, and high-intensity participants). We explore how the changes in questioning on social participation within the NCDS complicate the task of mapping long term patterns of participation, and use the recent qualitative Social and Participation Survey with the Cohort to make sense of these tensions. Our mixed methods are employed to provide insight into why and how individuals participate in very different ways in the light of unexpected similar demographic characteristics for the sample groups, as well as how this participation fluctuates over the lifecourse. The process and expectations involved in taking part in the NCDS has changed over the 50 years in which the Cohort have been members, as the same time as their relationship to the study has evolved in ways that reflect their participation credentials. We reflect on the concurrent dynamics of being a participator (or not) while also being a member of a prominent research cohort
Parry, Jane
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Brookfield, Katherine
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Bolton, V.
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15 April 2015
Parry, Jane
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Brookfield, Katherine
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Bolton, V.
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Parry, Jane, Brookfield, Katherine and Bolton, V.
(2015)
Patterns of lifecourse participation: insights from the National Child Development Survey cohort.
British Sociological Association conference: Societies in Transition, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
14 - 16 Apr 2015.
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Data from a mixed methods study of the 1958 NCDS cohort is used to explore distinctive long term patterns of participation and volunteering (consistent participators, non-participants, and high-intensity participants). We explore how the changes in questioning on social participation within the NCDS complicate the task of mapping long term patterns of participation, and use the recent qualitative Social and Participation Survey with the Cohort to make sense of these tensions. Our mixed methods are employed to provide insight into why and how individuals participate in very different ways in the light of unexpected similar demographic characteristics for the sample groups, as well as how this participation fluctuates over the lifecourse. The process and expectations involved in taking part in the NCDS has changed over the 50 years in which the Cohort have been members, as the same time as their relationship to the study has evolved in ways that reflect their participation credentials. We reflect on the concurrent dynamics of being a participator (or not) while also being a member of a prominent research cohort
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Published date: 15 April 2015
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British Sociological Association conference: Societies in Transition, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2015-04-14 - 2015-04-16
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Gerontology
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377142
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Katherine Brookfield
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V. Bolton
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