Jetse Sprey
Biographic Data
| ID | 82036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jetse Sprey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jetse |
| FAMILY NAME | Sprey |
| SIGNATURE | SPREY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Extending the Range of Questioning in Family Studies Through Ideas From the Exact Sciences
This article argues that the scope and depth of understanding in the field of family studies would be advanced if some theoretical questioning were at a higher level of abstraction. A way to achieve this is to shift some of the focus of questioning from individuals to social relationships. The potential benefits of 3 concepts drawn from the exact sciences—attractors, nonlinearity, and chaos—are discussed in turn to demonstrate that their metaphor…
Institutionalization of the Family and Marriage: Questioning Their Cognitive and Relational Realities
This paper argues that to explain the institutionalization processes named the family and marriage, it is necessary to recognize the ontological distinction between their cognitive and relational realities. Institutionalization is an ordering process analogous to instinct in animal societies. In that capacity the human family and marriage collectively order the care and social placement of offspring. Given the biology of Homo sapiens, the family …
Cultural Theory: Classical and Contemporary Positions
Theorizing in Family Studies: Discovering Process
This paper makes the case that theorizing in family studies might be different if scholars asked the types of questions that now are asked in the physical sciences. Initial efforts to move toward a more abstract explanatory level in family studies led to inventorying and verification. This paper argues that the recognition of a realm of discovery, allowing for the creative and disciplinary use of imagination and metaphor, would extend the scope a…
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. Frank J. Sulloway. New York: Pantheon Books. 1996. 653 pp. ISBN 0-67944232-4. $16.00. Born to Rebel is a lengthy and ambitious book. Apart from its main story, 70 of its 653 pages devoted to appendices, 96 to end notes, and 84 to an extensive bibliography. Furthermore, the reader is confronted with many tables and a collection of remarkable illustrations. Its author's central argume…
Explanatory Practice in Family Studies
The article makes a case for a more flexible and realistic explanatory practice in the family field. The conventional linkage between the worth of an explanatory statement and its predictive power, for, example, reflects cultural assumptions as much as it does rational thought. In one's culture, knowledge implies power so that prediction allows for control of the present and the foreseeable future. The sense making of, any specific descriptive pi…
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach
Family, Economy and Community
Family and the State of Theory
Fashioning Family Theory. New Approaches
Studying Adult Children and Their Parents
No abstract available for this article
Fashioning Family Theory: New Approaches
Theoretical Practice in Family Studies - Jetse Sprey Households as an Institution of the World-Economy - Immanuel Wallerstein and Joan Smith The Family in Political Thought - Jean Bethke Elshtain Democratic Politics and the Question of Authority Issues of Critical Sociological Theory - David H J Morgan Men in Families Engendering Family Theory - Debra Renee Kaufman Toward a Feminist-Interpretive Framework Post-Positivist Theorizing - Darwin L Tho…
Fashioning Family Theory: New Approaches
Sociobiology and the Social Sciences
White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies 1877-1919
Current Theorizing on the Family: An Appraisal
This essay presents an appraisal of current theorizing about the institutions of marriage and the family in the US. It aims to exemplify rather than explain or in any way treat the process exhaustively. Central to the discussion is a view of theorizing as an intentional activity that occurs within a time-bound sociocultural setting. The current and future course of mainstream family thought is evaluated and a number of rival approaches toward kno…
Sex and Friendship in Baboons
Sociology
Contemporary Grandparenthood: A Systemic Transition
The transition to grandparenthood is presented as a stage in the family life cycle in which meaning comes from outside the boundaries of the original nuclear family unit through alliances initiated and produced by offspring. A demographic picture of grandparenthood is presented that shows that the transition is likely to occur in middle age and to overlap less with active parenting than was the case in the past, and that the ages of both grand-pa…
Victims and Society
The Social Psychology of Sex
Marriage Stability, Divorce, and the Law
Sexuality: A Search for Perspective
"Comments on Bean and Kerckhoff, "Personality and Perception in Husband-Wife Conflict
The New Sexual Revolution
Contemporary Grandparenthood: A Systemic Transition
The transition to grandparenthood is presented as a stage in the family life cycle in which meaning comes from outside the boundaries of the original nuclear family unit through alliances initiated and produced by offspring. A demographic picture of grandparenthood is presented that shows that the transition is likely to occur in middle age and to overlap less with active parenting than was the case in the past, and that the ages of both grand-pa…
Sex Differences in Occupational Choice Patterns among Negro Adolescents
Sex Differences in Occupational Choice Patterns Among Negro Adolescents Get access Jetse Sprey Jetse Sprey Franklin & Marshall College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 1, Summer 1962, Pages 11–23, https://doi.org/10.2307/799403 Published: 08 August 2014
The Family as a System in Conflict
In this paper the conventional treatment of family harmony and conflict, in a consensus-equilibrium framework, is discussed and judged inadequate. Instead a view of the family as a system in conflict is suggested as an alternative and more fruitful theoretical approach. The major premises underlying such a frame of reference are briefly outlined. Its theoretical implications for the study of the family are explored
Studying Adult Children and Their Parents
No abstract available for this article
Current Theorizing on the Family: An Appraisal
This essay presents an appraisal of current theorizing about the institutions of marriage and the family in the US. It aims to exemplify rather than explain or in any way treat the process exhaustively. Central to the discussion is a view of theorizing as an intentional activity that occurs within a time-bound sociocultural setting. The current and future course of mainstream family thought is evaluated and a number of rival approaches toward kno…
Theorizing in Family Studies: Discovering Process
This paper makes the case that theorizing in family studies might be different if scholars asked the types of questions that now are asked in the physical sciences. Initial efforts to move toward a more abstract explanatory level in family studies led to inventorying and verification. This paper argues that the recognition of a realm of discovery, allowing for the creative and disciplinary use of imagination and metaphor, would extend the scope a…
Family Power Structure: A Critical Comment
A concept, as viewed here, is an analytical tool designed to gain theoretical access to the phenomena of our subject matter. Evaluation thus raises the question of its theoretical fruitfulness, rather than that of empirical truth. Confronted with the concept of power structure we thus ask: what good is it in our attempts to explain the processes of marital and family interaction? Or, given the hypothetical situation that all research-technical pr…
On the Management of Conflict in Families
Jetse Sprey, On the Management of Conflict in Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Double Issue: Violence and the Family and Sexism in Family Studies, Part 2 (Nov., 1971), pp. 722-731
Extending the Range of Questioning in Family Studies Through Ideas From the Exact Sciences
This article argues that the scope and depth of understanding in the field of family studies would be advanced if some theoretical questioning were at a higher level of abstraction. A way to achieve this is to shift some of the focus of questioning from individuals to social relationships. The potential benefits of 3 concepts drawn from the exact sciences—attractors, nonlinearity, and chaos—are discussed in turn to demonstrate that their metaphor…
On the Institutionalization of Sexuality
Human sexuality has been analyzed traditionally within the conceptual frameworks of marriage and the family. This paper deals, however, with the premise that sex is becoming an autonomous and distinct realm of social interaction. The sociological implications of such a development are explored. An attempt is made to design an analytical framework suitable to the study of sexual behavior-and its interconnections with other social institutions-as a…
Kulturelle Interessen von Jugendlichen
Family, Economy and Community
Institutionalization of the Family and Marriage: Questioning Their Cognitive and Relational Realities
This paper argues that to explain the institutionalization processes named the family and marriage, it is necessary to recognize the ontological distinction between their cognitive and relational realities. Institutionalization is an ordering process analogous to instinct in animal societies. In that capacity the human family and marriage collectively order the care and social placement of offspring. Given the biology of Homo sapiens, the family …
Explanatory Practice in Family Studies
The article makes a case for a more flexible and realistic explanatory practice in the family field. The conventional linkage between the worth of an explanatory statement and its predictive power, for, example, reflects cultural assumptions as much as it does rational thought. In one's culture, knowledge implies power so that prediction allows for control of the present and the foreseeable future. The sense making of, any specific descriptive pi…
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach
On the Origin of Sex-Roles
The aim of this brief paper is to use recently-obtained knowledge about the sexual division of labor in pre-historic times as a perspective for the evaluation of our current usage of the concept of sex roles as an analytical tool in the study of contemporary male-female relationships. The data on which the major part of this presentation are based are, therefore, not derived from contemporary sociology per se, but rather from the published works …
Family Disorganization: Toward a Conceptual Clarification
The concept of family disorganization is frequently equated with other but closely related concepts, such as family dissolution, marital maladjustment, etc. In this paper family disorganization is defined as a separate analytical tool. For this purpose major attention is paid to the distinction between disorganization and the violation of family role obligations. Cohen's analytical distinction between social disorganization and deviant behavior i…
Sex Differences in Occupational Choice Patterns among Negro Adolescents
Sex Differences in Occupational Choice Patterns Among Negro Adolescents Get access Jetse Sprey Jetse Sprey Franklin & Marshall College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 1, Summer 1962, Pages 11–23, https://doi.org/10.2307/799403 Published: 08 August 2014
Les Comportements Economiques de la Famille Salariee du Quebec
Family Disorganization: Toward a Conceptual Clarification
The concept of family disorganization is frequently equated with other but closely related concepts, such as family dissolution, marital maladjustment, etc. In this paper family disorganization is defined as a separate analytical tool. For this purpose major attention is paid to the distinction between disorganization and the violation of family role obligations. Cohen's analytical distinction between social disorganization and deviant behavior i…
Dutch Society
Kulturelle Interessen von Jugendlichen
Sourcebook in Marriage and the Family
The Sexual Wilderness
On the Institutionalization of Sexuality
Human sexuality has been analyzed traditionally within the conceptual frameworks of marriage and the family. This paper deals, however, with the premise that sex is becoming an autonomous and distinct realm of social interaction. The sociological implications of such a development are explored. An attempt is made to design an analytical framework suitable to the study of sexual behavior-and its interconnections with other social institutions-as a…
The Family as a System in Conflict
In this paper the conventional treatment of family harmony and conflict, in a consensus-equilibrium framework, is discussed and judged inadequate. Instead a view of the family as a system in conflict is suggested as an alternative and more fruitful theoretical approach. The major premises underlying such a frame of reference are briefly outlined. Its theoretical implications for the study of the family are explored
"On Aldous' "Strategies for Developing Family Theory
Extra-Marital Relations
On the Management of Conflict in Families
Jetse Sprey, On the Management of Conflict in Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Double Issue: Violence and the Family and Sexism in Family Studies, Part 2 (Nov., 1971), pp. 722-731
"Comments on Bean and Kerckhoff, "Personality and Perception in Husband-Wife Conflict
The New Sexual Revolution
On the Origin of Sex-Roles
The aim of this brief paper is to use recently-obtained knowledge about the sexual division of labor in pre-historic times as a perspective for the evaluation of our current usage of the concept of sex roles as an analytical tool in the study of contemporary male-female relationships. The data on which the major part of this presentation are based are, therefore, not derived from contemporary sociology per se, but rather from the published works …
Family Power Structure: A Critical Comment
A concept, as viewed here, is an analytical tool designed to gain theoretical access to the phenomena of our subject matter. Evaluation thus raises the question of its theoretical fruitfulness, rather than that of empirical truth. Confronted with the concept of power structure we thus ask: what good is it in our attempts to explain the processes of marital and family interaction? Or, given the hypothetical situation that all research-technical pr…
Sexuality: A Search for Perspective
Marriage Stability, Divorce, and the Law
The Social Psychology of Sex
Victims and Society
Contemporary Grandparenthood: A Systemic Transition
The transition to grandparenthood is presented as a stage in the family life cycle in which meaning comes from outside the boundaries of the original nuclear family unit through alliances initiated and produced by offspring. A demographic picture of grandparenthood is presented that shows that the transition is likely to occur in middle age and to overlap less with active parenting than was the case in the past, and that the ages of both grand-pa…
Sociology
Sex and Friendship in Baboons
Current Theorizing on the Family: An Appraisal
This essay presents an appraisal of current theorizing about the institutions of marriage and the family in the US. It aims to exemplify rather than explain or in any way treat the process exhaustively. Central to the discussion is a view of theorizing as an intentional activity that occurs within a time-bound sociocultural setting. The current and future course of mainstream family thought is evaluated and a number of rival approaches toward kno…
White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies 1877-1919
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