Overcoming family boundaries Practicing the family practices approach

Chiara BERTONE, Satta Caterina

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Abstract

David H. Morgan’s family practices approach represented a turning point in studies on family relations in the 1990s, whose international impact is explored in the special issue through contributions from Italy and other South European countries. In this introduction we relate his proposal to keep the notion of family at the centre of sociological inquiry – while redefining its conceptualization – to a wider debate, on whether this very notion can still be relevant in understanding contemporary relationships. We then explore how the heuristic potential of the family practices approach has been taken up and developed in research, particularly in relation to centring on the everyday and on the subjects’ own perspectives. Finally, we discuss the conditions under which this heuristic potential can unfold, we describe how it has been used in the articles of this special issue, and we point to missing voices and directions of interpretation
Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)779-799
Numero di pagine21
RivistaRassegna Italiana di Sociologia
Volume62
Numero di pubblicazione4
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2021

Keywords

  • David H. Morgan
  • everyday
  • family boundaries.
  • family practices
  • sociology of families

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