IMT-PhD: Social Psychology of Family Life E2025
Doctoral School of People and Technology at Roskilde University
Content
This course introduces social psychological approaches to researching family life. The social psychology of family life focuses on people's experiences and practices in their everyday lives. That is, their subjective orientations, social activities and personal relationships. This focus requires attention to societal, historical and cultural dimensions in everyday life. The social psychology of family life draws on a diversity of disciplines, traditions and approaches and insists that family life unfolds across everyday life contexts and that family life includes political, institutional and subjective dimensions.
The course introduces family life as a context for exploring the perspectives and subjectivity of parents and children.
Parenting includes relational and intergenerational connections, obligations, responsibilities and organizations across contexts in collaboration with different actors (e.g. children, co-parents, relatives, professionals). The course will introduce social psychological perspectives as different approaches to exploring complexity and contradictions in everyday life. These are perspectives that give researchers the opportunity to understand people's lived experiences and conflicting relationships in family life.