New Family Structures and New Domestic Groups
Code: 101245 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 3 | 0 |
| 2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jorge Grau Rebollo
- Email:
- Jordi.Grau@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
There is no prerequisite for this course, but it is recommended to have previously studied Anthropology of Kinship.
This course is mostly taught in Catalan.
Objectives and Contextualisation
This is an optional subject of fourth year of the Degree of Social and Cultural Anthropology that belongs to the specialized fields of Culture and Society.
The subject aims at the study of the changes that occur in kinship relations within our own sociocultural context. For this reason, the use of concepts such as "family" or "marriage", for example, does not refer to theoretical concepts but to terms that are specific to our culture. Hence, specific topics will include new reproductive technologies, increased adoptions, same-sex families, multi-parenting and childless couples, as well as their impact on the conceptualization of kinship.
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able:
- To know the typologies and the theoretical debates on new forms of family organization and the formation of new domestic groups.
- To locate these debates within the critical theory of kinship and the studies of family in our cultural environment.
- To relate the new forms of family organization and the new domestic groups with the sociocultural and historical coordinates in which they appear and develop.
- To analyze the influences that can entail the inequalities of gender, social class, ethnicity, age, affective-sexual orientation and identity in the organization of these new typologies.
Competences
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Apprehending cultural diversity through ethnography and critically assessing ethnographic materials as knowledge of local contexts and as a proposal of theoretical models.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Producing cultural diversity materials that could have a critical impact on the common sense conceptions.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the history of anthropological theory and the genesis of its basic concepts.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing a contemporary fact from an anthropological perspective.
- Analysing data critically from anthropological investigations and reports.
- Assessing critically the explicit and implicit theoretical models in the ethnographic materials.
- Explaining the work's results narratively in accordance with the critical standards of discipline and bearing in mind the different target audiences.
- Identifying main and supporting ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Identifying the contemporary interdisciplinary tendencies shared by the Anthropology and social disciplines related to the corresponding field.
- Identifying the sociocultural variability in specific ethnographic contexts.
Content
Unit 1. From the 80s theoretical convulsion to the new orientations in the study of kinship.
Unit 2. The study of new forms of family and new domestic groups. Theoretical proposals and historical contexts.
Unit 3. Families and emerging forms of relationality, nurture and coexistence.
Methodology
TRAINING ACTIVITIES:
- Lectures and oriented sessions of debate and group discussion.
- Analysis of audiovisual productions with an ethnographic content.
- Writing and essay presentation. Audiovisual and multimedia elaboration. Teamwork.
- Individual study.
- Assessment.
TEACHING METHODOLOGY:
- Lecturing with ICT support.
- Debates in the class group.
- Viewing and discussion of audio-visual documents and other multimedia productions.
- Group–based tutorials.
- Application of theoretical concepts to the analysis of ethnographic situations.
- Elaboration of memos and summaries.
- Written exam.
- Teamwork.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Discussion on ethnographic production in different formats | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 1, 3, 4 |
| Group Debates | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 3, 6 |
| Lectures | 22 | 0.88 | 2, 1, 3, 7, 6 |
| Written Exam | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 3 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Individual or team work | 18 | 0.72 | 2, 4, 5 |
| Tutorials (written and audiovisual essay) | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 1, 4, 5 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual Study | 38 | 1.52 | 2, 1, 3, 7, 6 |
| Readings, document search and information analysis | 32 | 1.28 | 2, 1, 7, 6 |
Assessment
Assessment:
Module 1: Group work. The script and the evaluation criteria will be published in the subject's Moodle. (40% of the final grade). Failure to follow the format standards that appear in the corresponding script will result in the non-acceptance of the work.
Module 2: Individual video presentation that sholud thematically develop some aspect of group work. Guidance for carrying it out as well as the evaluation criteria will be available in the course Moodle. (35% of the final grade). Failure to follow the format standards that appear in the corresponding script will result the non-acceptance of the video.
Module 3: Individual written exam on the course contents. (25% of the final grade).
Qualifications review procedure:
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
The course will be considered as non-evaluable if at least one entire module is not completed.
To participate in recits, students must have previously been graded in a set of activities that equates to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade.
Further information will be vailable on the course Moodle.
Plagiarism:
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools or will offer them feasible alternatives
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 3 |
| Group work (essay) | 40% | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 5, 6 |
| Thematic video presentation | 35% | 0 | 0 | 2, 1, 4, 5 |
Bibliography
Course textbook:
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2016). Nuevas formas de familia. Ámbitos emergentes. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.
General references:
Álvarez, Cristina (2006) Múltiples maternidades y la insoportable levedad de la paternidad en reproducción humana asistida. Revista de Antropología Social. 15, pp. 411-415.
Bestard, Joan (coord.) (2012) Noves formes de família / Nuevas formas de familia. Metrópolis, cuaderno central. Publicació en línia: http://www.barcelonametropolis.cat/site/unitFiles/607/QCFamilia_Metropolis.pdf.
Breger, Rosemary and Hill, Rosanna. (eds) (1998) Cross-Cultural Marriage. Identity and Choice. Oxford: Berg.
Cabré, Anna and Domingo, Andreu (2007) "Tal com èrem i tal com som". L'Avenç, 323: pp. 20-26.
Cadoret, Anne (2007) “L’apport des familles homoparentales dans le débat actuel sur la construction de la parenté”. L’Homme, 183: 55-76.
Cadoret, Anne (2010) “Maternité et parenté plurielle”, en Fons, V., Piella, A. y Valdés, M. (Eds.) Procreación, crianza y género. Aproximaciones antropológicas a la parentalidad. Barcelona: PPU, pp: 279-291.
Carsten, Janet (2004) After Kinship. Cambridge University Press.
Carsten, Janet (2000) Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (edited). Cambridge University Press.
Carsten, Janet (1997) The Heat of the Hearth: The Process ofKinship in a Malay Fishing Community. Oxford: Clarendon Pres
Comas d’Argemir, Dolors (1993) “Noves Formes de Família”. Revista del Centre d’Investigació, Formació i Assessorament. Diputació de Barcelona;11; pp: 25-31.
Comas d’Argemir, Dolors (2000) “Mujeres, Familia y Estado del Bienestar”, en Del Valle Teresa (Ed.) Perspectivas Feministas desde la Antropología Social. Barcelona: Ariel, pp: 187. 204.
Comas d’Argemir, Dolors. (2012)“Políticas públicas y vida cotidiana. Redescubrimiento y auge de las políticas familiares en España”. Scripta Nova. Revista electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales. [En línea]. Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona, 15 de marzo de 2012, vol. XVI, nº 395 (20).
Cortina, Clara; Esteve, Albert and Domingo, Andreu. (2006) "Crecimiento y singularidades demográficas de los matrimonios de extranjeros en España", Migraciones 20: 75-105.
Donoso, Silvia (2006) “Maternidad lésbica: reconocimiento y soporte en el ámbito de las relaciones familiares”. En Roigé Ventura, X. (Coord.) Familias de ayer, familias de hoy. Continuidades y cambios en Cataluña. Barcelona: Icaria, pp: 515-534.
Flaquer, Lluís (1998a) “Família i noves formes de convivència”, en Giner, S. (dir.) (1998) La Societat Catalana. Barcelona: Institut d’Estadística de Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya, pp: 401-415.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge (2006) Procreación, género e identidad. Debates actuales sobre el parentesco y la familia en clave transcultural. Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge (2010) “Parentesco e identidad.Debates recientes en torno al binomionaturaleza-cultura. ¿Rebiologización o reideologización del Parentesco?”, a Díaz Cruz, R.; González Echevarría, A. (Eds) Naturalezas, cuerpos, culturas. Metamorfosis e intersecciones; México D.F.: UAM-JuanPablos; pp: 81-109.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge (2011) Parentesco, adscripción y crianza. Elaboraciones culturales de la adopción internacional y la circulación de niños. Revista de Antropología Social, 20, pp. 31-54.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2018). “Familia”, in Aguirre Baztán, A. (Dir.) Diccionario Temático de Antropología, Madrid: Delta Publicaciones, pp. 233-237.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2020). Posverdad y Ficción. Cómo la distorsión (des)explica el mundo. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra. ISBN: 978-84-7290-980-9
Imaz, Elixabete (2010) “¿Madre no hay más que una? De cómo la reflexión sobre las familias lesbianas ayuda a evidenciar el carácter cultural y de género de la maternidad”, en Fons, V., Piella, A. y Valdés, M. (Eds.) Procreación, crianza y género. Aproximaciones antropológicas a la parentalidad. Barcelona: PPU, pp: 359-376.
Jiménez Godoy, Ana Belén. (2005) Modelos y realidades de la familia actual. Barcelona: Fundamentos.
Konvalinka, Nancy (ed.) (2012) Modos y maneras de hacer familia : las familias tardias, una modalidad emergente. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
Melhuss, Maritt (2010) “Hijos sin madres, padres desconocidos y otros problemas de filiación. Hechos reproductivos e imaginaciones procreativas en Noruega”, en Fons, V., Piella, A. y Valdés, M. (Eds.) Procreación, crianza y género. Aproximaciones antropológicas a la parentalidad. Barcelona: PPU, pp: 27-42.
Miret, Pau and Cabré, Anna (Ed.) (2010) "Monogràfic “El desarrollo de la familia en España desde una perspectiva demográfica”". Papers. Revista de Sociologia, 95 (3) : pp. 1-754.
Olavarría, María Eugenia(2002) “De la casa al laboratorio. La teoría del parentesco hoy día”. Alteridades, 12 (24): 99-116.
Pichardo, José Ignacio (2009) Entender la diversidad familiar. Relaciones homosexuales y nuevos modelos de familia. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.
Piella Vila, Anna (2011) “Tener o no tener...hijos. Una aproximación histórica y transcultural a la relación entre parentesco e infecundidad”, en Grau, J.; Rodríguez, D. y Valenzuela, H. (Eds). ParentescoS. Modelos culturales de reproducción. Barcelona: PPU, pp: 419-444.
Poveda, David; Jociles, Mª Isabel and Rivas, Ana Mª (2011) Monoparentalidad por elección: procesos de socialización de los hijos/as en un modelo familiar no convencional. Athenea digital. 11 (2): 133-154.
Ragoné, Helena (1996) Chasing the blood tie: Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers and Fathers. American Ethnologist, 23 (2), pp. 352-365.
Rodríguez García, Dan (2010) “Parentesco transnacional: intersecciones entre las teorías sobre migración y el ámbito procreativo”, en V. Fons, A. Piella y M. Valdés (eds). Procreación, crianza y género. Aproximaciones antropológicas a la parentalidad. Barcelona: PPU, pp: 119-140.
Roigé Ventura, Xavier. (Coord.) (2006) Familias de ayer, familias de hoy. Continuidades y cambios en Cataluña. Barcelona: Icaria.
Strohm, Charles et al. (2009) “Living ApartTogether” relationships in the United States. Demographic Research. 21 (7), pp. 177-214.
Filmography:
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2020). El Proyecto Vulneras. 5’56 min. Color. https://youtu.be/saWQDAbVtw8
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2020). Cifras en torno a la pobreza infantil (I). 6,45 min. Color. https://youtu.be/aSKOgj3PgTg.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2020). Cifras en torno a la pobreza infantil (II). 5’43 min. Color. https://youtu.be/YHiGCE5pCYY.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2020). Redes de apoyo en contextos de crianza vulnerable (I). 8,17 min. Color. https://youtu.be/ofu62pw6xX0.
Grau Rebollo, Jorge. (2020). Redes de apoyo en contextos de crianza vulnerable (II). 11’53 min. Color. https://youtu.be/lIWBvDcMk2A.
Vídeo-podcasts del projecte VulneraS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qycc06Xd6hsPS3Udwwtmg.