Genetic thinking and everyday living
On family practices and family imaginaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3376673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Nordqvist (0000-0001-8340-9976, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 865-881 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026117711645 |
| OpenAlex | W2617918597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 42 |
This article is concerned with exploring how ideas about genes and genetic relationships are rendered meaningful in everyday life. David Morgan's concept family practices has significantly shaped sociological enquiries into family lives in recent decades. It represents an important step away from a sociological focus on family as something you 'are' to family as something you 'do'. With a focus on family as a set of activities, it however functions less well to capture more discursive dimensions of family life. Combining a focus on family as practice with an attention to discourse, the article concentrates specifically on 'genetic thinking' - the process through which genetic relationships are rendered meaningful in everyday family living. The study draws on original data from a study about families formed through donor conception, and the impact of such conception on family relationships, to show that genetic thinking is a salient part of contemporary family living. The article explores the everyday, normative assumptions, nuances and understandings about genetic relationships by exploring five dimensions: having a child; everyday family living; family resemblances; traits being 'passed on'; and family members working out accountability and responsibility within the family. Showing the significance of genetic thinking in family life, the article argues for a more sustained sociological debate about the impact of such thinking within contemporary family life. The article also argues for the need to develop a sociological gaze more sensitive to the relationship between family as a set of activities and the feelings, imaginations, dreams or claims with which they are entwined
Everyday life · Family life · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Reproductive Health and Technologies
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Kinship in reproductive donation
The Relevance of Family in the Transition from Care to Adulthood
Women Who Perform Social Egg Freezing as Moral Pioneers
Matching Colours and “Genetic Countries of Origin”
Amateur Family Genealogists Researching Their Family History
Good donors, bad donors and oddities in the family tree
Donantes de esperma en los Estados Unidos de América y las relaciones con su descendencia
Grandparents and extended kinship relations as resources? Biographical perspectives of care leavers in Austria
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Nothing will stop me from giving the gift of life’
On the sensations of direct-to-consumer DNA testing
Making matter matter
Managing absence and presence of child–parent resemblance
Constructing Masculinity through Genetic Legacies
Tracing pathways of relatedness
Who Counts as Family Later in Life? Following Theoretical Leads
The ongoing work of kinship among donor half-siblings in The Netherlands
De l’adoption à la procréation assistée par autrui
Le don d’ovules dirigé
From adoption to assisted reproduction
Displaying family on the DNA platform
Out of the ordinary
An invisible injury’
Reproductive pragmatism and open families
Grappling with tradition
Dynamisms of romantic family imaginaries and asexual identity-making
Performing consanguinity
Transatlantic crossings
Family Policy as a Power Source of Political Stability
Biogenetic Kinship in Families Formed via Reciprocal IVF
Making sense of sibling economic gaps
Doing adoptive family’ in contemporary India – A qualitative exploration of adoptive parents’ narratives
Reproductive Curation
Invisible Labours
Relational dynamite
Genetic testing and family entanglements
Whatever is bad goes back to the woman
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception
Intimacy among relative strangers
Visual methods in family and sexuality research
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience
Single Mothers as Bricoleurs
Knowing What You've Got Once It's Gone
Dialectical Family Imaginaries
A Multi-Faceted and Relational Approach to Gay Men's Identities
Telling Reproductive Stories
Sociologies of Personal Relationships and the Challenge of Climate Change
Egg Donation Imaginaries
Material Affinities
The single-mother ghost-father family
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood-borne virus
Un/familiar connections
Ideals, negotiations and gender roles in gay and lesbian co-parenting arrangements
Mixing and Matching
Biomedicalization
Birthing a Mother
Experiencing the New Genetics
Wombs in Labor
Extractions
Modern Families
Prenatal Genetic Testing and Screening
Cultures of Relatedness
Born and Bred
Making modern mothers
Family & Social Change Ils 127
Negotiating Family Responsibilities
Rethinking Family Practices
Same Sex Intimacies
‘I don’t want us to stand out more than we already do’
Questions of kinship and inheritance in pediatric genetics
The Drive for Openness in Donor Conception
Making Families
The Donor‐conceived Child's ‘Right to Personal Identity’
Conceiving the New World Order
Origins and originators
Resemblance talk
Family Ties in Genes and Stories
Ambivalence and the Paradoxes of Grandparenting
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
American Kinship
Out and About
I've Redeemed Myself by Being a 1950s 'Housewife
Bringing Kinship into Being
Sharing Surnames
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Tangible Affinities and the Real Life Fascination of Kinship
Displaying Families
Kinning
Make-up
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |