The Nuclear Family as a Mediator Between Class and Mental Disturbance in Children

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ID2973956
AuthorsH A M Jansen, Harrie Jansen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume13
Issue2
Pages155-170
Publication date1982-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.13.2.155
OpenAlexW2979300086
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

This article aims at contributing to the development of sociological theory on mental disturbance in children, without falling into the sociological relativism of labeling theory or in the positivistic determinism of stress theory. This is done by integration of findings from psychiatric family research with that from sciological research on socialization in families of different societal positions. The central thesis of the argument states that inability in conflict resolution, and consequently in attaining symbolic intimacy between the parents, forms the nucleus of 'pathological' socialization. This means that there is a need for a sociology of marital communication in which communica-tional problems between partners may be deduced from and explained by the specific positions of men and women in the family and in society. Some suggestions are made foi the way in which such a sociology could be developed

Argument (complex analysis) · Determinism · Epistemology · Positivism · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Family Support in Illness · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Psychology · Social Psychology

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