Meanings of Marital Equality

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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An ethnographic study of marital equality.Scott R. Harris develops an interactionist, interpretive approach to studying equality in social life by synthesizing the theoretical perspectives of four founding figures in interactionist, social constructivist thought-Herbert Blumer, Alfred Schutz, Harold Garfinkel, and John Dewey. He focuses on equality in marriage by examining the stories people tell about their equal and unequal marriages, and compares those tales to what researchers have had to say on the subject. Challenging conventional understandings of equality, Harris demonstrates that social scientists in general tend to impose interpretations of inequality onto their respondents' lives, rather than respecting and studying the meanings that people live by.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt299 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor209
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791466223

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Acknowledgments Preface 1. Equality as a Social ConstructionTraditional and Interactionist Approaches to Studying EqualitySymbolic Interactionism and EqualityPhenomenology and EqualityEthnomethodology and EqualityDewey on Morality, Equality, and Social Reform Conclusion 2. Quantitative Research on Marital Equality: Inter-Researcher Discontinuity and Researcher-Subject DivergenceFour Traditions of Quantitative ResearchCritiquing the Literature: Discontinuity and Divergence Conclusion 3. Qualitative Research on Marital Equality: Naturalist and Constructionist ApproachesNaturalism, Social Constructionism, and Narrative AnalysisNaturalist Studies of Marital Equality Constructionism and Marital EqualityConclusion 4. Narrating Marital Equality: Familiar Domains of RelevanceAcquiring DataThe Domain of Power The Domain of the Division of Labor The Domain of Love 5. Narrating Marital Equality: Unfamiliar Domains of RelevanceConclusion 6. The Implications of ConstructionismSummarizing Collins, Chang, and Schwalbe et al.Comparison and CritiqueConclusion Notes References Index

"Harris's unique approach moves well beyond the standard and, in my view, very tired thinking about what it means to have an equal (or unequal) marriage. If anything is central to the study of marriage and family, it's the question of marital equality. Every scholar and graduate student working in this area will need to have this book, and even those who disagree with the approach will need to read what Harris offers in order to properly come to terms with it from their varied points of view." — Jaber F. Gubrium, coeditor of Qualitative Research Practice"Harris does an excellent job clarifying the differences between objectivist and constructionist perspectives. The issues he discusses are vital for any social scientific field. In some subfields, such as social problems research, the constructionist perspective is well established. In the family field there has been some discussion but no sustained presentation of how a constructionist perspective would offer an alternative way of understanding family life—Harris's book makes a real contribution here." — Stan J. Knapp, Brigham Young University