How Italian fathers construct themselves as partners in family cooking duties
- Arcidiacono, Francesco ORCID Haute École Pédagogique BEJUNE
- Pontecorvo, Clotilde ORCID Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Rome : Italian Center on Everyday Lives of Families, 2005
English
The Italian research is part of a collaborative project headed by prof. Ochs at the Sloan Center on Everyday Lives of Families, based in UCLA. It is a comparative research project involving an Italian as well as a Swedish unit, and it is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in family households. The families are all composed by two parents and at least two siblings, one of which between 8 and 12 years of age; both parents work outdoors.
The general aim of the project is to understand how the family organizes to carry out manifold activities. The research implies observing (and videorecording) the family members at home during their working and weekend days, and interviewing the parents about the family history, habits and network of relationships, as well as for their views on the matters of health care and children’s education.
Extensive observation is dedicated to the organization of the home space, creating house maps and getting a large number of photographs of the home space, objects and storage resources; the point of view of each of the family member as for significant places and objects is obtained by asking individual videorecorded home tours in which they show and explain the different part of the house from their own perspective. Interviews and field observations are integrally transcribed; an "activity log" is also produced by both ethnographic fieldnotes and recordings, synthetizing the main activities carried out in the settings.
The main part analysis is performed on the transcripts; when relevant passages are identified, they are further examined by going back to the audio and/or video data.
The general aim of the project is to understand how the family organizes to carry out manifold activities. The research implies observing (and videorecording) the family members at home during their working and weekend days, and interviewing the parents about the family history, habits and network of relationships, as well as for their views on the matters of health care and children’s education.
Extensive observation is dedicated to the organization of the home space, creating house maps and getting a large number of photographs of the home space, objects and storage resources; the point of view of each of the family member as for significant places and objects is obtained by asking individual videorecorded home tours in which they show and explain the different part of the house from their own perspective. Interviews and field observations are integrally transcribed; an "activity log" is also produced by both ethnographic fieldnotes and recordings, synthetizing the main activities carried out in the settings.
The main part analysis is performed on the transcripts; when relevant passages are identified, they are further examined by going back to the audio and/or video data.
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