Changing American home life: trends in domestic leisure and storage among middle-class families |
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Authors: | Jeanne E Arnold Ursula A Lang |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of California, 341 Haines Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553, USA;(2) Arkin Tilt Architects, 1101 8th Street, Suite 180, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA |
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Abstract: | This study of middle-class American families draws on ethnography and urban economic history, focusing on patterns of leisure
time and household consumption and clutter. We trace how residential life evolved historically from cramped urban quarters
into contemporary middle-class residences and examine how busy working families use house spaces. Our ethnographic sample
consists of 24 Los Angeles families in which both parents work full time, have young children, and own their homes. Formal
datasets include systematically timed family uses of home spaces, a large digital archive of photographs, and family-narrated
video home tours. This analysis highlights a salient home-storage crisis, a marked shift in the uses of yards and garages,
and the dissolution of outdoor leisure for busy working parents.
The UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) is generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program on
the Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families. Anthony Graesch assisted with the tables. Additional information about CELF
can be found at www.celf.ucla.edu. |
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Keywords: | Clutter Dual-earner families Home spaces Leisure time Suburban history |
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