eprintid: 10145075
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datestamp: 2022-03-15 11:10:50
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creators_name: Zadeh, Sophie
creators_name: Jadva, Vasanti
creators_name: Golombok, Susan
title: Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families
ispublished: inpress
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: documents, family display, paperwork, single fathers, single fathers by choice
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abstract: This article extends existing sociological scholarship on doing and displaying family by developing the concept of documenting families. We suggest that documenting is conceptually rich insofar as it showcases the relationship, and tensions, between institutional practices and individual experiences of family display. Drawing on our research with men who became parents without partners, we argue that the process of documenting family is made especially evident in studies of what Finch originally referred to as ‘non-conventional’ family relationships. We explain that documenting sheds light not only on the official and unofficial means through which families are recognised on paper, but also on family practices as work – in this case paper-work – that involves negotiation between different social actors who are generally unequal in terms of their authority and agency to impose situational meaning.
date: 2022-03-08
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211073238
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1944530
doi: 10.1177/00380385211073238
lyricists_name: Zadeh, Sophie
lyricists_id: SZADE72
actors_name: Zadeh, Sophie
actors_id: SZADE72
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Sociology
issn: 0038-0385
citation:        Zadeh, Sophie;    Jadva, Vasanti;    Golombok, Susan;      (2022)    Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families.                   Sociology        10.1177/00380385211073238 <https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211073238>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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