Parenting Ideals and (Un-)Troubled Parent Positions

Autor/in	Widding, Ulrika
Titel	Parenting Ideals and (Un-)Troubled Parent Positions
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 23 (2015) 1, S.45-64 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
DOI	10.1080/14681366.2014.919955
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Parenting Styles; Parenthood Education; Parent Attitudes; Parent Participation; Parent Responsibility; Middle Class Culture; Social Class; Mothers; Fathers; Gender Differences; Caring; Gender Issues; Parent Child Relationship; Discourse Analysis; Interviews; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elternbildung; Elternverhalten; Elternmitwirkung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Mother; Mutter; Geschlechterkonflikt; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Geschlechterfrage; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Diskursanalyse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schweden
Abstract	This paper examines how some Swedish parents constructed meanings of parenthood. The parents had completed a state-sponsored parenting programme and were interviewed about their experiences of the programme, their everyday lives, their need for support, ideas about the societal context, and their understandings of "good" and "bad" parents. The study was grounded in a discourse-analytical tradition and concepts from discursive psychology guided the analysis. When the interviewees described good parents as responsible and engaged, they related to dominant discourses where middle-class values of involvement and ideals of intensive motherhood intersect. The descriptions of bad parenting were also classed and gendered, representing bad parents as irresponsible and uncaring, as not setting limits, and as not spending enough time with their children. The parents represented themselves in various ways as responsible parents, i.e. an untroubled subject position, but also handled troubled parent positions related to notions of gender and social class. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01