Review Essay: On the Social Problem of Family Homes for Conviviality
This essay presupposes that household, family, and marriage have a social vocation—a natural, outward trajectory in forming networks of families, extended kinships, and neighborhood networks. It seeks to explore what this entails through a survey of recent scholarship on families, homes, and childr...
| Published in: | Journal of Moral Theology |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Journal of Moral Theology, Inc.
2016-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/11310-review-essay-on-the-social-problem-of-family-homes-for-conviviality |
| Summary: | This essay presupposes that household, family, and marriage have a social vocation—a natural, outward trajectory in forming networks of families, extended kinships, and neighborhood networks. It seeks to explore what this entails through a survey of recent scholarship on families, homes, and children. It discusses family as a place of common work, common standards of judgment, and the membership cultivated through common life in a place. It notes that parents are concerned to equip children for what they will need to earn a good living. Doing so, however, is typically conceived in a personalist, privatized manner—often reduced to matters like loving one’s family. In this privatized context, it is as important as ever to see within family a generative social role, as place where social interdependence and engagement is produced. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-2851 2166-2118 |