Engaging siblingships. (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gulløv, Eva; Palludan, Charlotte; Winther, Ida Wentzel
• Is Part Of: Childhood. Volume 22:Number 4(2015:Nov.)
• Page Start: 506
• Page End: 519
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: Childhood -- emotional practice -- friction -- relatedness -- siblingship; Children -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; Children -- Research -- Periodicals; 305.23
• DOI: 10.1177/0907568214555147
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0907-5682

Abstract

Inspired by sociological and anthropological family studies, our point of departure is that there is neither a given nor an unequivocal prototype of sibling relationships. On the basis of qualitative interviews, dialogues and filmed observations of everyday life, we investigate how children and young people in contemporary Denmark engage emotionally in sibling relationships. It emerges that siblingships inevitably involve frictions in various forms. In the article, we analyse the impact frictions have on social relations and discuss how such dynamics in sibling relationships both reflect and influence family constitutions and dynamics.