The Domestic Domain

by Pennartz, Paul J. J.; Niehof, Anke

• ISBN13: 9780754610113
• ISBN10: 075461011X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

An internationally comparative insight into the theories and issues surrounding the management of family households. The authors view the household as a dynamic system which not only responds to, but also mediates and generates, social change.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
List of Tables	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(14)
Why a Book on Family Households?	1	(1)
Definitions	2	(6)
The Domestic Domain	2	(1)
The Family, the Household, and the Family Household	2	(2)
The Family Household as a Relatively Autonomous Unit	4	(2)
Domestic Activities, Decision-Making, and Modernization	6	(2)
Structure of the Book	8	(7)
Selection of Theoretical Approaches	8	(1)
Selection of Key Studies	9	(1)
New Directions	10	(1)
The Chapters	10	(5)
The Rational Choice Approach and Households' Sustainable Behaviour	15	(28)
Introduction	15	(1)
The Relevance of the Theories and of Sustainable Behaviour within Households	16	(2)
The Theory of Reasoned Action	18	(5)
Key Study: The Theory of Reasoned Action and Recycling Behaviour within Households in The Netherlands	23	(4)
Introduction	23	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	24	(1)
Data Collection and Analysis	25	(1)
Findings	26	(1)
The Theory of Planned Behaviour	27	(2)
Key Study: The Theory of Planned Behaviour and Recycling Intentions within Households in the U.S.A.	29	(5)
Introduction	29	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	30	(1)
Data and Analysis	31	(1)
Findings and Discussion	31	(3)
Conclusions and New Directions for Research	34	(9)
Conclusions	34	(1)
New Directions for Research	34	(9)
The Strategy Approach and Temporary Migration	43	(24)
Introduction	43	(1)
The Relevance of the Strategy Approach and of Temporary Migration	44	(2)
The Strategy Approach: The Conceptual Framework	46	(7)
A Strategy's Characteristics	46	(3)
Characteristics of Coping	49	(1)
A Household Strategy's Context	50	(3)
Key Study: Migration by the Male Partner in Portugal	53	(4)
Introduction	53	(1)
People's Life Situation and History	53	(2)
Findings and Discussion	55	(2)
Key Study: Migration by the Female Partner in Indonesia	57	(4)
Introduction	57	(1)
People's Life Situation and History	58	(1)
Data Collection	58	(1)
Findings and Discussion	59	(2)
Conclusions and New Directions for Research	61	(6)
Conclusions	61	(1)
New Directions for Research	62	(5)
The Organisation Approach and Resource Allocation within Households	67	(26)
Introduction	67	(1)
Relevance of the Organisation Approach and of Allocation of Resources	68	(2)
A Conceptual Framework of Resource Allocation	70	(3)
Key Study: Systems of Money Management, a Small Scale Study in Britain	73	(8)
Introduction	73	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	74	(1)
Data Collection and Analysis	75	(1)
Findings and Discussion	76	(5)
Key Study: Systems of Money Management, a Large Scale Study in Britain	81	(5)
Introduction	81	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	81	(1)
Data Collection and Analysis	82	(1)
Findings and Discussion	83	(3)
Conclusions and New Directions for Research	86	(7)
Conclusions	86	(1)
New Directions for Research	87	(6)
The Power Approach and the Division of Household Production Tasks	93	(28)
Introduction	93	(1)
The Relevance of the Power Approach and of the Division of Household Production Tasks	94	(2)
A First Conceptual Framework: Power as an Outcome	96	(3)
Key Study: Power and Households' Agricultural Production in China	99	(6)
Introduction	99	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	100	(2)
Data Collection and Analysis	102	(1)
Findings and Discussion	102	(3)
A Second Conceptual Framework: The Three-Dimensionality of Power	105	(2)
Key Study: Invisible Power and the Division of Domestic Work in The Netherlands	107	(5)
Introduction	107	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	108	(1)
Data Collection and Analysis	109	(1)
Findings and Discussion	110	(2)
Conclusions and New Directions for Research	112	(9)
Conclusions	112	(1)
New Directions for Research	113	(8)
The Opportunity Structure Approach and the Housing Market	121	(30)
Introduction	121	(1)
The Relevance of the Opportunity Structure Approach and of the Housing of Family Households	122	(2)
The Opportunity Structure Approach: Conceptual Frameworks	124	(14)
An `Inter-Organizational Model'	124	(2)
The Supply Side: Public Authorities, Building Industry, and Households	126	(7)
The Demand Side: The Macro-Scale and the Micro-Scale	133	(5)
Key Study: Access to the Housing Market and Women-Headed Households in Kenya	138	(4)
Introduction	138	(1)
The Project	138	(1)
Data and Analysis	139	(1)
Findings and Conclusion	140	(2)
Key Study: Living Arrangement by Choice or by Constraint in Mexico	142	(4)
Introduction	142	(1)
Regional Developments	142	(1)
Data and Analysis	143	(1)
Findings and Conclusion	144	(2)
Conclusions and New Directions for Research	146	(5)
Conclusions	146	(1)
New Directions for Research	146	(5)
The Longitudinal Approach	151	(30)
Introduction	151	(1)
The Relevance of Longitudinal Approaches for the Study of Family Households	152	(3)
Longitudinal Approaches in Studying Family Households	155	(8)
The Concepts of Cohort and Generation	155	(2)
Life Cycle or Life Course	157	(3)
The Family Life Cycle	160	(3)
Key Study: Family Time in the USA in Historical Perspective	163	(3)
Introduction	163	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	163	(1)
Data Collection	164	(1)
Findings and Discussion	165	(1)
Life Course Dynamics	166	(2)
Key Study: A Life Course Approach to Migration Dynamics in The Netherlands	168	(6)
Introduction	168	(1)
Key Concepts and Research Questions	169	(2)
Data and Analysis	171	(2)
Findings and Discussion	173	(1)
Conclusions and New Directions for Research	174	(7)
Conclusions	174	(3)
New Directions for Research	177	(4)
The Morality Approach and the Issue of Care	181	(30)
Introduction	181	(3)
The Relevance of the Morality Approach	184	(3)
Tronto's New Ethic of Care	187	(5)
Cheal's Moral Economy and the Morality of Give-and-Take	192	(2)
Key Study: Negotiating Family Responsibilities in Britain	194	(7)
Introduction	194	(2)
Conceptual Framework	196	(1)
Data Collection	196	(1)
Findings and Discussion	197	(4)
Key Study: The Morality of Family in Kenya	201	(4)
Introduction	201	(1)
Data Collection and Research Questions	202	(1)
Findings and Discussion	203	(2)
Conclusions and New Directions for Research	205	(6)
Conclusions	205	(2)
New Directions for Research	207	(4)
Synthesis and a View Ahead	211	(8)
A Bird's Eye View of the Previous Chapters	211	(1)
Households as Mediating Agencies	212	(2)
Family Households as Creative Agencies	214	(1)
Life-World's Values	215	(1)
Family Households in a State of Change	216	(3)
Bibliography	219