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Based on data gathered in settings where the family side of personal troubles is a regular concern, it is argued that the family enters into social relations as a collective representation. Adapting Durkheim's usage to everyday life, the family is analyzed as a 'public' project of those whose domestic affairs are challenged for consideration of family order. Three features of the family project are considered: (1) the awareness of the social form, (2) family conduct in the large, (3) family usage. As an object of experience, the family presents itself in a category separate and distinct from its members, while at the same time being a practical, discursive construct built out of, as well as reflecting concrete domestic affairs.

Front Cover -- Doing Human Service Ethnography -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- About the editors -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: What is human service ethnography? -- Preliminary matters -- The general and the specific -- Problematizing everyday life -- Human service ethnography -- Taken together -- References -- PART I Capturing professional relevance -- 1 Shadowing care workers when they're 'doing nothing' -- Standardization and 'nothingness' -- Shadowing the everyday practices of care -- Care practices in the home

Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences. But until now, little attention has been given to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the constructionist stance, and the remarkable diversity within the field. This cutting-edge handbook brings together a dazzling array of scholars to review the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. The volume critically examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices t

Intro -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: COUPLES -- 1 "I'm excited to be married, but . . .": Romance and Realism in Marriage -- 2 Making Sense of "Husbands" and "Wives" -- 3 The Everyday Meaning of Marital Equality -- PART 2: PARENTS AND KIDS -- 4 Being a Good Parent -- 5 Keeping Tabs on Teenagers -- 6 Kids, Cars, and Family Life -- 7 Sissy Boy, Progressive Parents -- PART 3: REARRANGEMENTS -- 8 Couples Facing Divorce -- 9 Children's Stories of Divorce -- 10 Stepfathers and the Family Dance -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z