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Integrating Life Course, Globalization, and the Study of Racial and Ethnic Families
Author(s) -
Trask Bahira Sherif
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family theory and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.454
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1756-2589
pISSN - 1756-2570
DOI - 10.1111/jftr.12259
Subject(s) - life course approach , ethnic group , ethnocentrism , sociology , pluralism (philosophy) , diversity (politics) , perspective (graphical) , globalization , cultural diversity , context (archaeology) , cultural pluralism , social psychology , epistemology , psychology , political science , pedagogy , geography , philosophy , archaeology , artificial intelligence , anthropology , computer science , law
Despite the proliferation of studies that specifically employ life course perspectives for contemporary families, an important omission, with only a few exceptions, has been critical inquiry into how race, ethnicity, cultural diversity, and global processes affect individual and family development. Furthermore, this perspective has been seriously underutilized for understanding the diversity of human experiences in global contexts. A focus on these issues should help move the study of families away from the inherent ethnocentric lens that undergirds so much of the discipline. The life course perspective, with its focus on the interplay of micro and macro factors, is a critical theoretical tool in expanding our understanding of context, vantage point, pluralism, and power relationships. New approaches to understanding and incorporating a life course perspective may spur fresh pathways for researchers and policy makers as they attempt to make sense of complex social phenomena.