Families and kinship in contemporary Europe rules and practices of relatedness / [electronic resource] :

• 其他作者：
  • Jallinoja, Riitta.
  • Widmer, Eric.
  • Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
• 出版： Basingstoke ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
• 主題： Families--Europe. , Kinship--Europe. , Social Science. , FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Alternative Family. , FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Reference. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230307452 (electronic bk.) 、 0230307450 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Outlining Relatedness: Introduction / Relationality and socio-cultural theories of family life / Assembling Families: Making family at a wedding: bilateral kinship and equality / Christmas celebration, an annual family gathering / Family photographs: putting families on display / Obituaries as family assemblages / Setting up Families with Significant Others: Couple formation as a transition between families / Social networks and family formation / Exclusivity and inclusivity in transnational adoption / Families in the Remaking: Money and the dynamics of intimate relationships / Making families at an old age / Reassembling families after divorce / Families in a globalized world / Family Relationships as Social Capital: Family relations as social capital / The fabric of trust in families: inherited or achieved? / Afterthoughts /
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• 摘要註: This collection uses the notion of 'assembly' as a new approach to understanding family and kinship. Investigating constitutive assemblages this book argues that in assembling, people manifest themselves as an 'us'. The revival of rules as a sociological instrument is explored: rules of genealogical proximity, bilaterality, equality, and monogamy. Rules are most influential in ritualistic family gatherings, such as weddings, Christmas festivities, putting family photos on display in the home and obituaries. The book also explores relatedness as it is actualized in the turning-points in one's life, which set the reassembling of families in motion. It investigates how setting up families mobilizes significant others and how old age, divorce and global migration lead to new familial constellations, and how these frame exclusivity and inclusivity. "Instead of seeing the family as a "monolithic" entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin"--
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