Reflexiv intimitet och blodsband : En introduktion till senmoderna släktskapskonstruktioner

• Kin relationships do not exist independently of people's interpretative practices. The routinization of divorce and remarriage, new reproductive technologies, and the genesis of gay families has made kin relationships increasingly diverse and flexible. Based on an examination of recent anthropological and sociological studies of kinship in late modernity, this aryicle analyses the heterogenous patterns of meaning attached to contemporary kinship. In one respect these interpretative practices represents discontinuity. The accumulated adjustments in the meaning of kinship can be seen as part of a reflexive achievement of intimacy, that is, the perforation of kinship by friendship. However, in another respect, the more or less voluntary relations which constitute new forms of kin can, nevertheless, be seen to represent a significant continuity. This continuity is not simply about how kinship - however defined - retains an important role in our lives. Above all, it is about transforming friendship into kinship in order to achieve the security of social relationships traditionally associated with such ties.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Släktskap

familj

intimitet

separationer

adoption

antropologi

sociologi

Sociology

Sociologi

Social work

Socialt arbete

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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