A Conscious and Inclusive Family Studies

I argue that family scholars must take bolder steps to engage the tensions between our heritage of positivist science and its postmodern challenges. I also argue that constructing theories, utilizing research methods, and examining substantive issues should be relevant to the diversity of the famili...

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Published in:Journal of marriage and family 2000-02, Vol.62 (1), p.4-17
Main Author: Allen, Katherine R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Language
Biographies
Children
Class
Consciousness
critical consciousness
Difference
diversity
Families & family life
Family
Family Life
Family relations
Family Research
family science
Family Structure
Fathers
Female homosexuality
Feminism
Feminist theory
Gender
General studies
Ideology
inclusivity
Interpersonal Relationship
Men
Meta Analysis
Mothers
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Objectivity
Periodicals
Photography
Positivism
Postmodernism
Reflection
Research biases
Research Methodology
Research Reports
Scientific Methodology
Sexual orientation
Sexuality
Social change
Social sciences
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Statistical Analysis
subjectivity
Weddings
White people
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Summary:I argue that family scholars must take bolder steps to engage the tensions between our heritage of positivist science and its postmodern challenges. I also argue that constructing theories, utilizing research methods, and examining substantive issues should be relevant to the diversity of the families we study and to ourselves as members of families. I offer examples of developing an informed reflexive consciousness to broaden the rationalist foundation that dominates family scholarship. For a more inclusive, balanced, and invigorated family studies, our subjective experiences and commitments as researchers should be acknowledged, confronted, and integrated. A family studies that is responsible to our readers, students, selves, and the people whose lives we study requires that we engage the critical intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and age as they define family diversity.
ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00004.x