TY - JOUR

T1 - О трансформации роли и смыслов отцовства в современной России

T2 - рецензия на Шевченко И.О. Отцы и отцовство в современной России: социологический анализ. М.: Тровант, 2019.

AU - Bezrukova, Olga N.

N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgements. The reported study was funded by RFBR, project No. 19-011-00543. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - The article presents the author’s reflections on I. O. Shevchenko’s monograph “Fathers and Fatherhood in Modern Russia: A Sociological Analysis”. The reasons for scholarly interest to study masculinity and fatherhood are, so the author, transformation of families, emergence of varying family structures and new forms of parenthood, democratization of family life, increasing number of divorces, emancipation of values and practices of women. Theoretical and methodological foundations of studying fatherhood as a social institution and social practice are duly considered. The author concludes that it is important to study meanings of fatherhood in crisis situations, the need for mastering life choices and overcoming obstacles. Key meaning of father’s role is seen to be a guide through life, a mentor, helping a child to enter difficult life world, to understand risks, to set goals, to initiate child’s growing up. It is concluded that the interviewing of men has specific feature consisting in a careful attitude to fathers’ wounded masculinity. It is shown that there are lacunae, gaps, and problem fields in studies of modern Russian fatherhood. Promising for future research are, as the author asserts, families and fathers who are in difficult life situations and those from families risking recurrent family crises.

AB - The article presents the author’s reflections on I. O. Shevchenko’s monograph “Fathers and Fatherhood in Modern Russia: A Sociological Analysis”. The reasons for scholarly interest to study masculinity and fatherhood are, so the author, transformation of families, emergence of varying family structures and new forms of parenthood, democratization of family life, increasing number of divorces, emancipation of values and practices of women. Theoretical and methodological foundations of studying fatherhood as a social institution and social practice are duly considered. The author concludes that it is important to study meanings of fatherhood in crisis situations, the need for mastering life choices and overcoming obstacles. Key meaning of father’s role is seen to be a guide through life, a mentor, helping a child to enter difficult life world, to understand risks, to set goals, to initiate child’s growing up. It is concluded that the interviewing of men has specific feature consisting in a careful attitude to fathers’ wounded masculinity. It is shown that there are lacunae, gaps, and problem fields in studies of modern Russian fatherhood. Promising for future research are, as the author asserts, families and fathers who are in difficult life situations and those from families risking recurrent family crises.

KW - Fatherhood

KW - Fathers in vulnerable groups

KW - Involved fatherhood

KW - Masculinity

KW - Meanings of fatherhood

KW - Social support

KW - social support

KW - involved fatherhood

KW - meanings of fatherhood

KW - fathers in vulnerable groups

KW - fatherhood

KW - masculinity

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U2 - 10.31857/s013216250010504-7

DO - 10.31857/s013216250010504-7

M3 - рецензия

AN - SCOPUS:85115772396

VL - 2021

SP - 150

EP - 155

JO - СОЦИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

JF - СОЦИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

SN - 0132-1625

IS - 1

ER -