Money in the Household: Some Underlying Issues of Power
Money in the Household: Some Underlying Issues of Power
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家庭金钱：权力的一些潜在问题
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10.1111/1467-954x.00136
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发表时间：
1998
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Carolyn M. Vogler
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作者：
Carolyn M. Vogler
本文讨论了一些论文（Vogler和Pahl，1993年，1994年; Vogler，1994年）的批评，我们试图探讨金钱，权力和婚姻中的不平等之间的关系。随后的批评主要集中在我们在这些文件中使用的权力概念。有人认为，我们要么缺乏权力理论（Rottman，1996），要么我们将权力概念化为对决策的控制过于有限（Shove，1993）。然而，我认为，虽然在我们的原始论文中没有明确说明，但我们的研究结果指向了一个更普遍的家庭权力理论，即卢克斯三维权力模型的修改版本。虽然我们最初将权力概念化为对决策的控制（Lukes的第一个权力维度），但我们的研究结果也表明了意识形态和文化因素（Lukes的第三个权力维度）的重要性，这既是夫妻用于组织家庭内部资金的分配系统的原因，也是其结果。从理论上讲，我还认为，家庭内部关于金钱的话语可能是更广泛的政治层面决策话语的一部分，并以类似的方式运作。因此，可以将家庭内部管理金钱的不同方式概念化为类似于更广泛的政治层面上的不同类型的民主的微型政治系统，并对性别关系产生类似的后果。
This paper addresses criticisms of a number of papers (Vogler and Pahl, 1993, 1994; Vogler, 1994) in which we attempted to explore the relationships between money, power and inequality within marriage. Subsequent criticisms have mainly centred around the concept of power that we used in those papers. It has been suggested that we either lacked a theory of power (Rottman, 1996) or that our conceptualisation of power as control over decision making was too limited (Shove, 1993). I would argue however, that while it was not made explicit in our original papers our findings point towards a more general theory of power in the household, namely to a modified version of Lukes' three dimensional model of power. While we initially conceptualised power as control over decision making (Lukes' first dimension of power) our findings also show the importance of ideological and cultural factors (Lukes' third dimension of power) as both a cause and a consequence of the allocative systems couples use to organise money within the household. More theoretically, I also suggest that discourses about money within the household may be part of, and operate in a similar way to discourses of decision making at the broader political level. It may therefore be possible to conceptualise the different ways of managing money within the household as mini political systems akin to different sorts of democracy at the broader political level, and with similar consequences for gender relations.