Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Human Reproduction.

Borrowing concepts from the study of work and occupations as well as gender studies, this paper considers the social organization of migration as gendered work. It explores women's and men's contribution to two aspects of family resources needed to migrate: (a) jobs and the non-market exchanges involved in obtaining work, and (b) the support of kin. The data come from a study of 30 emigrant and non-emigrant families representing three social classes in Hong Kong. We find their “migration work” varies by social class and gender. Since the working class families depend on kin to get resources to emigrate, their “migration work” involves maintaining these kin ties, mainly in the job area. The lower middle class proffer advice to kin, and they view kin as an information source on topics including migration. For the affluent, middle-class who negotiate independently to emigrate, their “migration work” involves linking colleagues to the family.

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Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work.

Social Forces ◽

10.2307/2580050 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 71 (2) ◽

pp. 554

Author(s):

Margaret K. Nelson ◽

Marjorie L. DeVault

Keyword(s):

Social Organization ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

Gendered Work

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Mothering for Schooling

Education Policy Analysis Archives ◽

10.14507/epaa.v3n1.1995 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Alison I. Griffith

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Primary School ◽

Social Organization ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

Two Cities ◽

The Relationship

In this paper I explore the relationship between mothering work in the family and the social organization of schooling. In particular, I address the ways in which mothers coordinate and contest the textually-organized discourse of schooling In contrast to other studies of the family/school relationship, this research began in the experience of mothers whose children attend primary school. The data were collected through interviews with mothers in two cities in Ontario. Mothering work constructs families that are differently connected to schools -- a connection strongly shaped by and constitutive of social class.

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De la historia > a los objetos sólidos. Nuevos retos conceptuales, teóricos y metodológicos sobre Familia y ciencias sociales

Áreas. Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales ◽

10.6018/areas.497011 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 11-19

Author(s):

Francisco Chacón Jimenez

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Organization ◽

Social Relations ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

The Creation ◽

Object Of Study

This work examines the claim of objects as explanatory protagonists of historical analysis against the perspective set forth in the book L´Histoire en miettes: des Annales à la «nouvelle histoire», by François Dosse (1987). This article aims to study the theoretical and epistemological turn regarding the historiographical approach. With this objective, we start from the family as an object of study, so that we place it between history and social sciences. It is precisely in the creation of the object, in the new analytical categories and in the renewal of the methods, where the true synthesis occurs as a contribution and creation of knowledge regarding the social organization and its operating processes.The system of social relations and the integration of individuals in the community provide families with the lead role in social change or resistance. Thus, factors such as hierarchy, intergenerational genealogies, domination, inequality and dependency are determined. La reivindicación de los objetos como protagonistas explicativos del análisis histórico frente a la consideración de fragmentos tras el clásico, pero acertado para su contexto y momento histórico: L´Histoire en miettes: des Annales à la «nouvelle histoire», de François Dosse (1987), pretende ofrecer un giro teórico y epistemológico respecto al enfoque historiográfico. Para ello partimos del objeto Familia y lo situamos entre historia y ciencias sociales. Es, precisamente, en la creación del objeto, en las nuevas categorías analíticas y en la renovación de los métodos, donde se produce la verdadera síntesis en tanto que aportación y creación de conocimiento respecto a la organización social y sus procesos de funcionamiento.El sistema de relaciones sociales y la integración de los individuos en la comunidad, le otorga a las familias el protagonismo en el cambio social o en las resistencias. Se determinan así factores como jerarquía, genealogías intergeneracionales, dominación, desigualdad y dependencia.

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Family Obligations and Social Change. Janet FinchBrave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century America. Judith StaceyThe Second Shift. Arlie Hochschild , Anne MchungFeeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work. Marjorie L. DeVault

Signs ◽

10.1086/494877 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 260-264

Author(s):

Meg Luxton

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Organization ◽

Family Obligations ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Second Shift ◽

Twentieth Century America ◽

Late Twentieth Century

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Rethinking intimacy: Semi-anonymous spaces and transitory attachments in Argentine tango dancing

Current Sociology ◽

10.1177/0011392116681385 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 356-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Maria Törnqvist

Keyword(s):

Social Organization ◽

San Francisco ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Argentine Tango ◽

Relational Quality ◽

Specific Mode ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

Academic Discourses

Although intimacy is an area characterized by great variety and complexity, both popular and academic discourses have traditionally revolved around a restricted number of associations, of which the family, the romantic couple and friendship bonds have resided at the very centre. In this article the author argues that an analytical shift that addresses intimacy in terms of a relational quality – a specific mode of interaction and a particular experience of closeness – instead of a set of relationships, may assist in exploring a wider range of phenomena. This approach is used to study Argentine tango dancing. Ethnographic fieldwork locates the search to the dim-lit dancehalls of Buenos Aires, San Francisco and Stockholm, and accounts for experiences of transitory semi-anonymous attachments. The study concludes tango to be a multifold intimate arena that unveils how complex webs of feelings are entangled with the social organization of attachments.

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