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  • Occupation to maintain the family as ideology and practice in a Greek town

    Author(s)
    Kantartzis, Sarah
    Molineux, Matthew
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Molineux, Matthew
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    Discussions of the cultural relativity of occupation and the potential hegemony of Western conceptualisations have included increasing awareness of a dominant focus on the individual and individual agency. Recognition of the importance of understanding occupation in diverse contexts led to an ethnographic study exploring occupation in a Greek town. A transactional perspective underpinned the emergent understanding of occupation as a multidimensional and fluid process occurring within and between individuals, the family and the community, from each moment to across the life-span. This paper presents part of the findings of ...
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    Discussions of the cultural relativity of occupation and the potential hegemony of Western conceptualisations have included increasing awareness of a dominant focus on the individual and individual agency. Recognition of the importance of understanding occupation in diverse contexts led to an ethnographic study exploring occupation in a Greek town. A transactional perspective underpinned the emergent understanding of occupation as a multidimensional and fluid process occurring within and between individuals, the family and the community, from each moment to across the life-span. This paper presents part of the findings of that study, focusing on the family as ideology and as practice. Values and beliefs around the ideal family, occupation for the maintenance of the household, and the network of family occupation, transacted in an ongoing process that constructed and reconstructed each element. Family was embedded in memories and stories, the embodied experience of growing up in the town and in the ongoing family occupation that predominated throughout the days and weeks. Family was part of who one was, but also an inextricable part of what one did. The study supports expanding conceptualisations of occupation beyond the individual to include the family as an important part of everyday life.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Occupational Science
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2014.908480
    Copyright Statement
    Self-archiving of the author-manuscript version is not yet supported by this journal. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version or contact the authors for more information.
    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/62058
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