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Sociological Ambivalence Revisited
S Hillcoat-Nalletamby,
J. E Phillips,
Judith Phillips,
Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby
Sociology, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Start page: 202
Swansea University Authors: Judith Phillips, Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0038038510394018
Abstract
'Ambivalence' as a concept has received most attention from the behavioural sciences, notably by psychoanalysts and psychologists exploring the individual aspoects of ambivalence. This article addresses the broader social and cultural contexts in which ambivalence may operate. Consequently...
| Published in: | Sociology |
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| ISSN: | 0038-0385 1469-8684 |
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2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6525 |
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'Ambivalence' as a concept has received most attention from the behavioural sciences, notably by psychoanalysts and psychologists exploring the individual aspoects of ambivalence. This article addresses the broader social and cultural contexts in which ambivalence may operate. Consequently we are strengthening its conceptual foundations as a sociological construct. An EU funded project ‘Old age and autonomy: The role of service systems and intergenerational family solidarity’, involving interviews with adult children and their ageing parents engaged in informal caring relationships is drawn on to support our arguments. Viewed through a relational lens, ambivalence can be reconceptualized as having both temporal and transformative properties and as the product of complex relational experiences existing within a wider web of interdependent social relationships. |
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| Keywords: |
ambivalence, family solidarity, older people |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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2 |
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202 |