Conceptualising state-market-family relationships in comparative research: a conceptual goodness view on defamilization
| Autor: | Hannah Zagel, Henning Lohmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Public Administration Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences Welfare state Management Monitoring Policy and Law Popularity 0506 political science Empirical research Comparative research 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Criticism Sociology Positive economics 050203 business & management Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Strengths and weaknesses |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Social Policy. 50:852-870 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7823 0047-2794 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0047279420000549 |
| Popis: | This study evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of defamilization as a concept for analysing state-market-family relationships in comparative perspective. A paradox has emerged around defamilization in the last decade; its use in empirical large-N research has grown markedly despite mounting criticism in theoretical discussions. Applying criteria of conceptual goodness, we find that the popularity of the concept is based on its high degree of parsimony, theoretical utility and field utility, but that there are problems with the resonance, coherence and differentiation of the concept. We argue that defamilization is most coherent and has greatest utility if the concept’s roots in welfare state theory are fully acknowledged. In our view, this means that defamilization is best understood a) alongside the separate concept of familization, b) as a multidimensional concept in terms of economic and social dependencies in family relationships, and c) as a means of addressing both gender and intergenerational dependencies. Although suitable for operationalization in empirical research, the concept hence imposes high demands regarding the required data and possible analyses. |
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