Doing family

According to a social constructivist approach, Doing Family is a concept that encompasses the creation of the family as a cohesive group, its self-definition and staging as a group.

The concept of doing family is viewed as a dimension of family life. “Only the“ doing family ”that has to be performed over and over again in the micro-processes of family life constitutes family as a way of life.” Doing Family is “supported by practical and symbolic interconnections of individual lifestyles in the context of family”. The everyday actions of families and the negotiation processes that take place within families come to the fore.

Doing family is analogous to the concept of doing gender . Political impact of policies on families in the approach to family mainstreaming applicable to the scale of public action, by analogy, as in gender mainstreaming the impact on gender (in terms of gender ) is given.

See also

• Family sociology
• Parenting culture

literature

• Michaela Schier, Karin Jurczyk : "Family as a production achievement" in times of dissolution. In: From Politics and Contemporary History. Supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament. 34/2007, pp. 10-17. (online; PDF, 81 kB; accessed on February 8, 2010)

• Karin Jurczyk, Andreas Lange, Barbara Thiessen (Eds.): Doing Family - everyday family life today . Juventa, Weinheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-7799-2239-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Jurczyk, A. Lange: Family and the compatibility of work and life. New developments, old concepts. In: Discourse. Topic Modern Times, 2002, p. 14. Quoted from: Alma von der Hagen-Demszky: Familiale Bildungswelten: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Explorations. (PDF; 683 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Materials on the subject of family and education. DJI, October 2006, archived from the original on October 20, 2011 ; Retrieved February 8, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Michaela Schier, Karin Jurczyk: "Family as a production achievement" in times of dissolution. In: From Politics and Contemporary History , No. 34. Federal Agency for Civic Education, August 20, 2007, accessed on February 8, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Doing Family - taking the everyday life of families seriously. (No longer available online.) In: Thema 2009/12. German Youth Institute (DJI), archived from the original on October 11, 2010 ; Retrieved February 8, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.