Zadeh, Sophie;
Jadva, Vasanti;
Golombok, Susan;
(2022)
Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families.
Sociology
10.1177/00380385211073238.
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Abstract
This article extends existing sociological scholarship on doing and displaying family by developing the concept of documenting families. We suggest that documenting is conceptually rich insofar as it showcases the relationship, and tensions, between institutional practices and individual experiences of family display. Drawing on our research with men who became parents without partners, we argue that the process of documenting family is made especially evident in studies of what Finch originally referred to as ‘non-conventional’ family relationships. We explain that documenting sheds light not only on the official and unofficial means through which families are recognised on paper, but also on family practices as work – in this case paper-work – that involves negotiation between different social actors who are generally unequal in terms of their authority and agency to impose situational meaning.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00380385211073238 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211073238 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | documents, family display, paperwork, single fathers, single fathers by choice |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145075 |
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