- Author: So, Hyunsoog
- Title: From models of family modernization to criticism of family “normality” : Research trends and challenges in Korean contemporary family history
- Language: Korean
- Journal: Critical Studies on Modern Korean History 46, 2: 351-388
- Publication Year: 2021
- Publisher: The Institute for Korean Historical Studies
■ Abstract This paper aims to review the trends of current research on Korean contemporary family history and to suggest future tasks. Until the 1980s, research generally sought to identify the characteristics of the nuclear family based on modernization theory. However, with the introduction of Marxist and feminist analysis since the 1980s and the spread of everyday-life history and gender history studies since the 1990s, efforts have been made to break away from the modernizationist stance and explain changes in the family in a more complex way. There is increasing interest in the norm of the “normal family,” which has rarely been considered a problem in the past, and in the others outside the boundaries of the family and excluded from it. As future tasks of family history research, it is necessary to study the actual situation of the family, to explore the historical formation and change process of the “normal family,” and to deepen research on politics and family relationships.
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