Diversity within Families and Diversity outside Families

DOI Web Site

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • 家族の内の多様性と家族の外の多様性
  • シンポジウム報告 家族の内の多様性と家族の外の多様性
  • シンポジウム ホウコク カゾク ノ ウチ ノ タヨウセイ ト カゾク ノ ソト ノ タヨウセイ

Search this article

Abstract

    Diversity of families is a presupposition in today's family research. Globalization has brought diversity to many spheres of society - the workplace, the family cultural patterns, and so on. We know various types of families and have contact with them in our own neighborhood. They differ from others in the neighborhood in their lifestyle, ethnicity, religion, values, norms, nationality, and so on. This type of diversity can be named “diversity outside families”.<BR>    Now, however society is stepping into a new phase of diversity, where many people experience diversity even in their own families. They may differ from their family members in ethnicity, religion, cultural origin, birthplace, and country of residence - even perhaps differing from their own family members at the biological or genetic relationship level. Beck, and Beck-Gernsheim (2011) called this type of globalization “inner globalization”, and declared that “the global other is found in our midst”. They named this type of family a “world family”. It could also be described as “diversity within families”.<BR>    As occurs with adoption-placement or step-kin relationships through parent remarriage, assisted reproductive technology, especially that involvihg artificial insemination by donor (AID), ovum donors, and surrogate mothers, brings rich diversity into families. These families may consist of multiple mothers and fathers. We discuss the sociological meaning of this multiplicity of parent-child relationships. The issues we select are, first, family identity and descent problems when we are faced with diversity within our families, and second, possible relations between diversity within families and diversity outside families, i.e. globalized society characterized by complexity and diversity. A related question is wherher diversity within families can or cannot contribute to the harmonization / integration of globalized complex societies.

Journal

Related Projects

See more

Keywords

Details 詳細情報について

Report a problem

Back to top