Family as a Discursive Achievement: A Relational Account

Autor(es)

Sampaio Martins, Pedro Pablo ; McNamee, Sheila ; Guanaes-Lorenzi, Carla

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW; v. 50, n. 7, p. 17-pg., 2014-01-01.

Resumo

Beginning with an understanding of family as a social construction, this article suggests that people actively make meanings about family during social interchanges. The idea is that family can be conceived as a discursive achievement: Family is defined in terms of what people who are drawing on various available socially produced discourses describe together as family. We propose that different realities regarding family are created via social processes of negotiating meaning in the interactive moment. Therefore, there are many different versions of family, and each of them has diverse implications for the social world. Examples of these implications for psychological theories, research, and family therapy are also presented, in considering how they might be useful in the field of psychology. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 11/02365-0 - Sentidos construídos por familiares de portadores de doença mental acerca da participação da família no tratamento
• Beneficiário: Pedro Pablo Sampaio Martins
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Mestrado