[ecrea] Call for Abstracts | The Families We (Do Not) Want: Constructing the Past, Present and Future Families through Rituals

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Call for Abstracts

Special Session:The Families We (Do Not) Want: Constructing the Past,
Present and Future Families through Rituals

organized in the framework of the Third ISA Forum "THE FUTURES WE WANT:
Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World", Vienna, Austria,
10-14 July 2016, http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/#

Family rituals are all around us. Family vacations, anniversaries,
Christmas, Thankgiving's day, but also births, weddings and funerals
have creatively inspired the argument of many movies and several other
expressions of popular culture throughout the world and history. This
call for papers challenges researchers from the social sciences,cultural
and media studies to present and discuss research on this topic in the
Third International Sociological Association Forum, Vienna 2016!

Session Description:

At the beginning of the 20th century, The Elementary Forms of the
Religious Life (Durkheim, 1912) paved the way for sociology to explore,
conceptualize and understand the power of rituals in our lives. Since
then, rituals ceased to be envisaged in the restricted area of religion
and the sacred; its study gradually extended to several dimensions of
the everyday interaction and social imaginaries. Family rituals
constitute no exception. Rituals have never been as studied and
celebrated as they are now all around the world. This session aims to
discuss, across borders, the place of family rituals in constructing the
past, present and future of the families we both want and do not want.
Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical studies on the
“special” meaning of some events, days or occasions, it aims to portray
and understand contemporary family rituals in all their multiplex
dynamics: actors, spaces, times, feelings, symbols, actions and
meanings. Ultimately, exploring the experiences, strengths, weaknesses
and tensions of family rituals might allow us to (de)construct and
contradict recent sociological theorization on family as a fleeting,
fluid and elusive reality, and to understand its global place in the
individuals’ struggle for better lives and worlds.

Format: Oral

Language: English

Research Committee: RC06 Family Research (host committee)

Deadline for new submissions: Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 24:00 GMT at
url: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/cfp.cgi

Session Organizer:

Rosalina PISCO COSTA

Universidade de Évora

Portugal

Email: (rosalina /at/ uevora.pt)



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