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Dom jako miejsce emocjonalne
Home as an Emotional Place

Author(s): Małgorzata Kubacka
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: home; dom; habitation practices; praktyki zamieszkiwanie; domesticity; domowość; emotions; emocje; sociology of emotion; socjologia emocji

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to show the home as an emotional place. The sphere of social conditions, which has been neglected until recently, can help explain emotion as a social construct. Many researchers have pointed to the emotional dimension of the experience of the home and living practices. A home is a complex place, a conglomerate of three aspects: material, symbolic, and relational. The experience of domesticity can be considered to have multiple aspects and to be variable. Taking emotions into account enables a fuller understanding of the duality of household practices, in connection with both their “function” and their role in creating, recreating, and changing the rules of the social order. In this sense, a home is located between the private and public sphere, emotional authenticity and emotional work, freedom and control, socialization and de-socialization, everyday life and celebration.

  • Issue Year: 62/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 191-208
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish