Cultural and Class Values In Family Process |
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Authors: | Justin Miller |
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Institution: | *Justin Miller is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, and Adjunct Instructor in Pastoral Care at Meadville/Lombard Theological School (Chicago, Illinois). Requests for reprints should be sent to 1119 West Belden Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614. |
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Abstract: | Based on the sociological research of Kohn (1977), several clinical and theoretical perspectives on the family are criticized for paying insufficient attention to class and cultural distinctions both in constructing normative images of the family and in conceptualizing therapeutic intervention. It is suggested that the "democratic" model of healthy family interaction is, to some degree, class- and culture-specific so that sociologically undifferentiated views of the family are likely to prove ethnocentric. Family therapists are therefore urged to be attentive to sociodynamic as well as psychodynamic factors present within both family and therapeutic interactions. |
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