Textures of Family Life
Further Thoughts on Change and Commitment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2114741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Smart (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 541-556 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279405009141 |
| OpenAlex | W2165227539 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article attempts to account for the existence of parallel systems of values in families where grandparents condemn divorce, yet act to support their adult children when they face relationship breakdown. The article seeks to understand the context in which values are formed and how they can gradually become more complex and contradictory as social and personal contexts change. The article explores change across two generations of family relationships in order to add to the debate on whether commitments within families are in decline. It also addresses the question of how policies on families can be formulated given the complexity, and contradictory nature, of the values that family members hold
Context (archaeology) · Developmental psychology · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Grandparent · Order (exchange) · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
Beyond ‘average’ family life
A British South Asian Muslim relational negotiation of divorce
Parents’ involvement and university students’ independence
Representing the family
Parenthood between Generations
They married for love but keep it quiet
Funerals and families
A selfish generation? 'Baby boomers', values, and the provision of childcare for grandchildren
Ambivalence and the Paradoxes of Grandparenting
Friends, Neighbours and Distant Partners
Family matters
Display Work
Closing the Childcare Gap
The normal chaos of love
Family obligations and social change
Grandparenting in divorced families
New Labour’s communitarianism, supporting families and the ‘rationality mistake’
Narratives of divorce
Culture
Geographies of family formations
The conceptualization of marital commitment
Time, Human Agency, and Social Change
Obligations of Kinship in Contemporary Britain
Grandparents Are the Next Best Thing
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |