Visions in monochrome
Families, Marriage and the Individualization Thesis1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Smart (University of Leeds), Beccy Shipman (0000-0002-2319-5299, University of Leeds) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 491-509 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00034.x |
| PMID | 15663421 |
| OpenAlex | W2044760072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper takes issue with the way in which the individualization thesis - in which it is assumed that close relationships have become tenuous and fragile - has become so dominant in 'new' sociological theorizing about family life. Although others have criticized this thesis, in this paper the main criticism derives from empirical research findings carried out with members of transnational families living in Britain whose values and practices do not fit easily with ideas of individualization. It is argued that we need a much more complex and less linear notion of how families change across generations and in time
Criticism · Epistemology · Monochrome · Political science · Sociology · Sociology of the family · Vision · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Philosophy · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Intimacy and family
Elecciones reproductivas, anonimato y parentesco
Divorce, Families and Emotion Work
Individualization (Beck)
Individualization (Beck)
Tra dipendenze intergenerazionali e asimmetrie di genere. Politiche e scelte riproduttive nelle Marche
Forced Marriage and Family Relationships
Second-Class Marriage? Civil Union in New Zealand
Ukrajnai menekülthelyzet és az ideiglenes belső menekültek helyzete a Beregszászi járás határmenti településein 2022-ben
Accounting for Same-Sex Divorce
Tak różne, a tak podobne
‘I don’t want us to stand out more than we already do’
They married for love but keep it quiet
Rethinking asexuality
Couples Living Apart Together
Theorizing Family Change
Beyond the agentic individual
Reinvigorating research on divorce
What’s love got to do with marriage
Good men need to be you dandang
Doing family, contesting gender and expanding affinity
Is Marriage Individualized? What Couples Actually Do
The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Revisited
Choice” in Filial Care Work
Family life in the 21st century
Religion and the Politics of Spirituality/Sexuality
Same-Sex Marriage Policies and Lesbian Family Life
British Pakistani women's use of the ‘religion versus culture’ contrast
Between Choice and Obligation
Children and young people's relationships, relational processes and social change
Voice Without Choice? Investigating Adolescent Girls’ Agency in Marital Decision-making in Niger
Family and Gender Roles in Spain From a Comparative Perspective
The Welfare State's Making of Cosmopolitan Europe
The individualization thesis and mothering children with disabilities
Are we falling apart?’
Beyond the Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity
Everything but the Marriage Certificate
Reshaping the Family Man
Geographical distance between children and absent parents in separated families
Zur Gültigkeit der Individualisierungsthese – Eine kritische Systematisierung empirischer Prüfkriterien / The Validity of the Individualization Thesis. A Critical Systematization of Empirical Testing Criteria
Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation
Revisiting the J-Shape
Inter-generational housing inequalities
Bryllup i avtradisjonaliseringens tidsalder
A Critical Argument against the Thesis of “Individualization without Individualism”
Geographies of Social Networks
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China
Caribbean Second-Generation Return Migration
Beck, individualization and the death of class
Continuity and change in work-life balance choices
Reflexivity over and above convention
The disorganized family
Conjugal intimacy, gender and modernity in contemporary China
Constructions, reconstructions and deconstructions of 'family' amongst people who live apart together (LATs)
Christian University Students' Attitudes to Gender
Single People's Geographies of Home
A Novel Macro Perspective on Family Dynamics
Conjuring up Traditions
Reshaping Tradition? Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Tradition and Modernity in Hong Kong and British Families
A Real Marriage? Applying for Marriage Migration to Norway
Continuity and Change in Transnational Italian Families
Marriage in a British Evangelical Congregation
Individualization or bricolage? Embedded marriage decisions in urban China
Money Management and Control in the Indian Joint Family across Generations
My Mother Wants Me to Jiaru-haomen (Marry Into a Rich and Powerful Family)
Children Need Their Parents More Than a Pizza in the Fridge
Intimate expectations and practices
Micro Impacts of a Macro-Level Trading Partnership
Studying the Complex Dynamics of Family Relationships
Intimacy as a Concept
Cohabitation and marriage in Austria
Family matters
Expecting the unexpected
Collectivist Relationality and Individualistic Relationality
Mid- and Later Life Cross-Sex Friendships in Minority Ethnic Contexts
Reclaiming the Second Phase of Life? Intersectionality, Empowerment and Respectability in Midlife Romance
Emotions in Aotearoa New Zealand
An Unpaid Labor of Love
Being a Mother, Practicing Motherhood, Mothering Someone
Intersectional Inequalities and Intimate Relationships
Sociologies of Personal Relationships and the Challenge of Climate Change
Animals Just Love You as You Are
Resisting or maintaining gender inequality? Wedding traditions among Norwegian millennials
Scripts for the 'good couple
The Detraditionalization of Intimacy Reconsidered
Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and 'work
The racialization of Muslim family life
Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity
How Families Still Matter
The normal chaos of love
The End of Marriage?
Family fortunes
The Transnational Family
Microcirculation of the Aortic Wall in Experimental Atheromatosis
The Transformation of Intimacy
Making Families
A Triumph of Hope over Experience”
Muslim Communities in Europe
Relative Values
Young Asian women and relationships
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 86 |