Para w praniu. O współczesnej rodzinie i codziennych czynnościach w socjologii Jeana-Claude`a Kaufmanna
Couples and their Laundry. On Contemporary Family and Everyday Duties in Jean-Claude Kaufmann’ Sociology

Summary/Abstract: The article is written to acquaint the Polish reader with a French sociologist, Jean-Claude Kaufmann. On the example of washing machine and washing as a domestic chore, Jean-Claude Kaufmann explains how a modern couple is created nowadays and how it functions struggling with the ideas of equality. It is an image of the lives of men and women all over the world, undergoing the process of democratization of family life. Kaufmann describes how ordinary people cope with changes that had been foreseen by Norbert Elias in The Society of Individuals. The way Kaufmann analyzes a couple is unique and comprehensive, valid also for other languages and cultures. The article reviews Kaufmann’ sociological ideas of negative capital, domestic integration and the condition of man as a pupil of his wife. Moreover, it explains how to manage Jean-Claude Kaufmann’s method of comprehensive interview. By introducing a heretofore unknown sociologist it shows the readers how to observe the world of modern family in an original and interesting way.

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