The Changing Sociological Construct of the Family
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4893642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Wilson (0000-0002-5787-9736, Darwin College The University Canterbury), R E Pahl, Ray Pahl (Darwin College The University Canterbury) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-266 |
| Publication date | 1988-05-01 |
| 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 | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1988.tb00836.x |
| OpenAlex | W2036808698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
Recent attempts to announce the death of the family as a useful analytical category for sociologists are rebutted as being premature. The tendency to view household relations as family relations or, indeed, couple or gender relations as family relations seems to have arisen in the early 1970s. Earlier attempts to construct an empirically grounded analysis of family relationships have been curiously neglected. An account of one family on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent provides some illustrative ethnography on both the positive uses of family members - particularly siblings - and on the way the social boundaries of this family are constructed by its members. It is argued that the family is best understood as a system of relationships that change over time. There is a curious lack of systematic ethnography of contemporary family relationships so that what is taught to students as the sociology of the family may be widely at variance with their own personal experience. This may be partly a result of relying too much on random surveys of households at the expense of detailed explorations of existing patterns of social relationships and social meanings. Developing theoretical arguments on the basis of inadequate or inappropriate ethnography is evidently a dangerous and misleading exercise
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2024 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |