Family life in urban public spaces: stretching the boundaries of sociological attention

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-01-11 DOI:10.1332/204674322x16696234868984

V. May

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Abstract

This article contributes to a reconceptualisation of the boundaries of sociological attention regarding where family is enacted. Despite being aware of the cultural contingency of the distinction that is drawn between the public and private spheres, family scholars in the Global North tend to study families as bounded units with an ‘inside’ and an ‘outside’, and as spatially centred in the home. I argue that there is a need to systematically explore how mundane interactions and activities in public settings are woven into family life. Furthermore, drawing from research into family life in cities, I make the case for conceptualising public spaces as aspects of and even as characters in family life, and ask how people realise their family capacities in these. I propose that keeping these different facets of family life in view both analytically and empirically could lead to a radical shake-up of sociological thinking about family.

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城市公共空间中的家庭生活：拓展社会学关注的边界

这篇文章有助于重新概念化关于家庭在哪里颁布的社会学关注的界限。尽管意识到公共领域和私人领域之间的区别的文化偶然性，全球北方的家庭学者倾向于将家庭作为“内部”和“外部”的有限单位来研究，并将其空间集中在家庭中。我认为有必要系统地探索公共场合的日常互动和活动是如何融入家庭生活的。此外，根据对城市家庭生活的研究，我将公共空间概念化为家庭生活的各个方面，甚至是家庭生活的特征，并询问人们如何在这些方面实现他们的家庭能力。我认为，从分析和经验的角度来看待家庭生活的这些不同方面，可能会导致对家庭的社会学思考的彻底变革。

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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.