„Project Child“: Parents‘ constructions of the gendered child

“儿童计划”：父母对孩子性别的建构

• 批准号: 428864246
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Michael Meuser
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehr- und Forschungsbereich Soziologie der Geschlechterverhältnisse
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/428864246?language=en
• 关键词: Project; Child; Parents; constructions; gendered

The research project is situated at the intersection of gender, family and childhood studies. It focuses on the parents’ (gendered) images, concepts and interpretative patterns of what they see as a succeeding development of their child. It asks for parents’ images of childhood and gender in different familial gender arrangements and analyzes how these images are projected onto their children. It is assumed that images of gender and childhood are ascribed to a high degree within families notwithstanding that they are cultural patterns transported by media and adopted by parents. A core research question is to which degree and in which respect the parents’ concepts are influenced by gender typical expectations. This question is asked against the backdrop of the transformation of the (bourgeois) family into a ‘negotiation family’ and the accompanying change of the figure of the child towards a ‘project child’ whose development and future depends on the ‘right’ acting of the parents. In particular, it is asked whether in the course of the pluralization of the family and the erosion of traditional gender norms the image of a ‘new child’ emerges which is gendered in new ways. Do non-traditional familial gender arrangements (atypical division of work, involved fatherhood etc.) relate to not gender typical images of the child? Or takes a gendered framing of the child’s development place or the absence of such a framing independently from the familial gender arrangement? The parents’ construction of the child will be analyzed along the following dimensions: (1) in relation to the child’s gender, (2) in relation to the family’s form of life and (3) in relation to the social class affiliation of the family. Based on qualitative interviews and family photos, the parents’ explicit and implicit images of the child, circulating cultural gender concepts as well as discursively connected practices will be analyzed. With the exception of single parents, the parents will be interviewed together, and they will be asked for providing up to ten family photos. This research design gives access to verbally as well as to visually represented concepts.

该研究项目位于性别、家庭和儿童研究的交叉点。它重点关注父母对孩子成功发展的（性别）形象、概念和解释模式。它询问父母在不同家庭性别安排中的童年和性别形象，并分析这些形象如何投射到孩子身上。人们认为，性别和童年的形象在家庭中被高度重视，尽管它们是通过媒体传播并被父母采用的文化模式。一个核心研究问题是父母的观念在多大程度上、在哪些方面受到性别典型期望的影响。这个问题是在（资产阶级）家庭转变为“谈判家庭”以及随之而来的孩子形象向“项目孩子”转变的背景下提出的，孩子的发展和未来取决于父母的“正确”行为。特别是，有人问，在家庭多元化和传统性别规范受到侵蚀的过程中，是否会出现以新方式性别化的“新孩子”形象。非传统的家庭性别安排（非典型的工作分工、参与的父亲身份等）是否与非典型性别的孩子形象有关？或者对孩子的发展位置采取性别框架，或者独立于家庭性别安排而缺乏这样的框架？父母对孩子的建构可以从以下几个维度进行分析：（1）与孩子的性别有关；（2）与家庭的生活方式有关；（3）与家庭的社会阶层归属有关。基于定性访谈和家庭照片，我们将分析父母对孩子的显性和隐性形象、传播的文化性别观念以及话语联系的实践。除单亲父母外，父母都会一起接受采访，并会被要求提供最多十张家庭照片。该研究设计提供了口头和视觉表示的概念。