Practicing the Family : The Doing and Making of Family in, with and Through Social Work and Education.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollig, Sabine.

Contributor:

Gross, Lisa.

Arndt, Maria.

Series:

Pädagogik

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How »family« is construed on a material and discursive level has gained increasing interest among educational and social work professionals. The contributors to this volume address that question in relation to the diverse everyday practices of »doing family« by its heterogeneous members. The contributions build a transdisciplinary bridge between research on family life on the one hand and research on the formatting of family in welfare state contexts on the other. Fundamental to this is a decentred and fluid understanding of family that conceives itself as a contested set of relational activities in people's everyday lives that are socially recognized as »familial«.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Practicing the family - Introduction

1 The COVID‑19 pandemic as a magnifying glass for the entanglement of the family and families life

2 Family studies and the doing and making of family in welfare state contexts

3 The praxeological turn in family research and welfare research

4 Practicing the Family - this book

Literature

I Practicing the family/families in relations

Doing families in ecologies of care

1 Introduction

2 Elements of an updated socio‐ecological perspective on the family

2.1 Removing differentiations and boundaries

2.2 Families from a relational‐pragmatic perspective

2.3 Children in familial care ecologies

3 On the path to a socio‐ecological research program...

3.1 Care of children as an object of social world analysis

3.2 Reconstructing social worlds through and with boundary objects

3.3 Families' contribution to care as infrastructure

4 Summary

Intersecting Spaces

2 Family and school: Two central institutions of childhood and youth

3 Inequalities between family and school

4 A practice‐theoretical approach to relationship analysis

5 Empirical analysis

5.1 The perspective of the school

5.2 The perspective of the family

6 Conclusion

Doing Family at the crossroads of organisations and private lives

2 (Un)Doing Family - the concept

2.1 Core aspects of the concept of Doing Family

2.2 The continuum between Doing and Undoing Family

3 The embeddedness of family practices

4 The interconnections between organisations, professionals, and the family

4.1 An empirical example: early prevention (Frühe Hilfen)

5 Conclusion: toward a precise use of the Doing Family concept

II Practicing the family/families in welfare state contexts.

Doing family right

2 Altered views of the child

3 Increasing state involvement

4 A need for strong cooperation

5 Standards and distinctions

6 In conclusion

Covid‑19 and 'the making of families' in (post)welfare state

2 A welfare state perspective towards childhood and family

3 Covid‑19 and the making of family - methodological aspects

4 First wave: "Parents are obliged to perform their duty…"

5 Second wave: "There is a threat of high social subsequent costs."

6 Conclusion - children as danger vs. children in danger

Intergenerational dynamics of family practices among young adults and their parents living together during the pandemic

2 Doing family through co‑residence during the pandemic

3 Study &amp

methods

4 Exploring intergenerational corona co‑residence

4.1 Scenario 1: Tight but nice

4.2 Scenario 2: Nothing to complain about

4.3 Scenario 3: Comfortable yet parallel lives

5 Discussion &amp

Conclusion

III Practicing the family/families in education &amp

social work

"Doing parenthood" within ambivalent orders of recognition

1 Introduction: who is considered a parent and what is a family?

2 State of the art: queer parenthood and family‐making

3 Theoretical perspectives: recognition and "doing family"

4 Research design

5 Findings

5.1 Trials of recognition: stepchild adoption

Negotiating pregnancy within the legal context of stepchild adoption

Precariousness of being a parent

Gaps between being a parent in everyday life and a non‐parent in institutional and legal contexts

5.2 Recognition in interactions: educational institutions

Obstacles in "doing family" outside the home

The "unreal mother"-paradoxes of being a social mother.

6 Discussion and conclusion

7 Literature

Doing family in welfare practices of early preventive services

2 Policy context: early support networks and child protection policies in the German welfare state

3 State of research

4 Analytical perspective: doing family in welfare practices

5 Empirical Analysis

6 Conclusion: doing family as categorisation work in welfare practices

Practices of doing difference in relation to families

2 Families and children's enrollment in early education and early intervention

3 Inclusive education, early education and early intervention

4 Positioning of families in early education and early intervention

5 The positioning of families in collaboration of early education and early intervention

5.1 Research design

5.2 The family in the focus of case constitutions

6 Discussion

The making and doing of migrant (m)others in Germany - subjectivation in the context of early childhood education and care

2 Theoretical and methodological perspective

3 Data

4 Analysis

5 Conclusion and Discussion - Governing ECEC via the 'migrant mother'

Doing 'shared care' in between family and early childhood education and care

1 Introduction: The hierarchical order of education and care in present discourse on family‐ECEC‐relationships

2 Shared care - conceptual perspectives

3 Shared Care as a practice of relating family and ECEC

3.1 Institutional contexts of shared care between private and public upbringing of children

3.2 Methods

3.3 Shared Care as differentating between care tasks and care responsibilities: Everyday challenges of sharing care

3.4 Shared care as authorised care: (re‑)distributing care responsibilities.

3.5 Shared care as compensated care: becoming together apart and involving parents retrospectively

4 Discussion

IV Research paths on practicing the family/families

Tattooing Family - doing and displaying family through tattoos by young people in residential care

2 Tattoos as artifacts in practices of doing und displaying family

3 Methodological approach

4 Tattooing Family as inscribing, showing, (re)presenting and interpreting family

5 Tattooing family means tattooing belonging

6 Obtaining an image of young people as actors in doing and displaying family

Doing family by means of adoption

1 Adoption as a prototype

2 The de‑bounded family as an everyday doing family

3 The exploratory reconstruction of doing family by means of sociological film analysis

Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (2018)

Maleficent (2014)

Despicable Me (2010)

4 The doing family in adoptive families in children's and adolescent films

Stage 1: First contact

Stage 2: Beginning of the adoption relationship

Stage 3: Shared experiences

Stage 4-6: The crisis

Stage 7: Normalisation

The phase model of cinematic staging

5 Family constituent factors and research desiderata

Films

Family generational relations in the context of refuge and asylum

1 Doing and displaying family, multi‐dimensional family relations and educational configurations in refugee families

2 Research design of the project "Change and Dynamics of Family Generational Relationships in the Context of Flight and Asylum" (DyFam)

3 Research methodology and reflection

3.1 General ethics and challenges in ethnographic studies in the context of refugee families

3.2 Research challenges and (im)possibilities during the pandemic

Two chronological periods.

Virtual working practices: the Covid‑19 outbreak and lockdown

Accessing the field: the introduction of the vaccine and lifting of social restrictions

3.3 Reflections on current fieldwork

The impact of Covid‑19 on our potential participants and gatekeepers

Sampling and kick‐off meetings

4 Reflexivity in ethnographic fieldwork and its impact on doing and displaying family

5 Final reflections and possible contributions

List of Authors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783839462812

3839462819

OCLC:

1500762518