Money practices and couplehood among individuals in the third age in Sweden

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16885314488573

Kristina Stenström, L. Kridahl, Ann‐Zofie Duvander

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Abstract

Couple relationships and money practices are intimately connected. Money can often cause disagreement and conflict within couples and represents symbolic values and expectations between partners. This study adopts a practices approach to exploring money practices among Swedish couples in the third age (60–80 years old) through 17 semi-structured interviews. We focus particularly on how money practices constitute and are constituted by dimensions of ‘being and doing couple’. We find that money practices both reflect and constitute couplehood. Our analysis has revealed that money practices are interlinked with couplehood through the primary themes of togetherness, fairness and trust, independence and finally, a reluctance to imagine oneself outside of couplehood, for other reasons than widowhood.

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瑞典第三年龄段个人的金钱行为和夫妻关系

夫妻关系和金钱实践是密切相关的。金钱通常会引起夫妻之间的分歧和冲突，并代表着伴侣之间的象征性价值观和期望。本研究采用实践方法，通过17个半结构化访谈，探讨瑞典夫妇在第三年龄段(60-80岁)的金钱实践。我们特别关注金钱实践是如何构成的，以及由“存在和做夫妇”的维度构成的。我们发现，金钱行为既反映了夫妻关系，也构成了夫妻关系。我们的分析表明，金钱实践与夫妻关系是相互联系的，主要是通过团聚、公平和信任、独立，最后，不愿想象自己在夫妻关系之外的生活，除了丧偶之外。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.