Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents' Economic Decisions.

Autor/in	Rao, Aliya Hamid
Titel	Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents' Economic Decisions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Beziehungsarbeit in der Familie: Die geschlechtsspezifische Mikrofundierung der wirtschaftlichen Entscheidungen der Eltern.
Quelle	In: American sociological review, 87 (2022) 6, S. 1094-1120Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1224; 1939-8271
DOI	10.1177/00031224221132295
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Mittelschicht; Soziokultureller Faktor; Entscheidung; Soziale Beziehung; Familie; Arbeitsloser; Beruf; Bildung; Einkommen; Eltern; Entscheidung; Familie; Kind; Wirtschaftskrise; USA; Ehepaar; Ausgaben; Arbeitslose Frau; Verwendung; Soziokultureller Faktor; Eltern; Kind; Kindererziehung; Ausgaben; Einkommen; Familieneinkommen; Konsumverhalten; Wirtschaftskrise; Ökonomisches Verhalten; Arbeitslose Frau; Arbeitsloser; Beruf; Geschlechtsspezifik; Verwendung; Zeitverwendung; Ehepaar; Ehepartner; USA
Abstract	"How do parents decide what goods, experiences, and activities they can afford for their children during times of economic insecurity? This article draws on 72 in-depth interviews with U.S. professional middle-class families in which one parent is unemployed. Extending the concept of relational work, this study illuminates how the microfoundation of economic decisions is gendered. Families where fathers are unemployed take the approach of relational preservation: they seek to maintain a high threshold of expenditures on children and view curtailing child-related spending as a threat to their class status. These families see reducing expenditures on children as a parental, and especially paternal, failure. Families where mothers are unemployed take an approach of relational downscaling, lowering the threshold for essential expenditures on children. These families are reluctant to spend less on children's education, but they do not view decreasing spending on other items, such as consumer goods, as threatening their class status. Gendering relational work reveals how inequalities within families are reproduced through meaning-making around expenditures on children, and it clarifies a key source of variation in parental economic decision-making." The study refers to the period 2013-2015. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1