Freedom, constraint, and family responsibility - Teens and parents collaboratively negotiate around the car, class, gender, and culture

被引:18
作者
Best, AL [1 ]
机构
[1] George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
关键词
teenagers; family care work; gender; class;
D O I
10.1177/0192513X05275422
中图分类号
D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
学科分类号
1204 ;
摘要
This article examines kids' talk about cars, exploring what their talk reveals about the dynamics of family life among families with teenagers.' Using in-depth and focus group interviews with teens, this article identifies how the car serves as cultural object around which parents and kids collaboratively negotiate both kids' autonomy from the world of family and their increasing responsibility to family that usually follows learning to drive. Highlighting the accounts of teens, this article identifies the central role of gender, class, and Culture as parents and their young adult children collaboratively negotiate around the car. This analysis sets these family negotiations within the context of broader economic and social shifts often associated with "the new global economy," including changing demands of work, mounting economic pressures for American families, and the eclipsing of family members' free time.
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页码:55 / 84
页数:30
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