Open AccessKALD OG DRØMMESTOF: Parcelhusets værdier
Author(s) -
Inger Sjørslev
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-5425
pISSN - 0906-3021
DOI - 10.7146/ta.v0i59/60.106835
Subject(s) - sociology , romance , dream , moral standards , consumption (sociology) , social psychology , social science , psychoanalysis , psychology , neuroscience
The values attached to privately owned single-family houses in Denmark are
analyzed as social processes that join private and public in a mode which Max
Weber’s concept of vocation can illuminate. The house represents ethics and
moral values linked with economics and ideas about investment in the future.
Practices aimed at improving and maintaining the house interact with the dominant
moral of society. At the same time, the house is a locus of dreams and consumption.
Applying Weber’s concept of vocation and Collin Campbell’s ideas about
a romantic ethic related to consumption and day- dreaming, the article interprets
practices surrounding the house, with the conclusion that the house is embedded
in a set of contradictory forces consisting of dream material and wider social,
moral obligations.
Keywords: Housing, values, materiality, ethics.