MÅLTIDER SOM FAMILIE-SKABELSE OG FRISÆTTELSE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i39.115170Resumé
Trine Iversen & Lotte Holm: Meals and
the Making of Family - and
Individualisation
In this article we discuss the role of meals in
family life. In the sociological literature on
food and eating the issue of meals is
integrated in discussions of family life,
social communities and socialisation of
children and adolescents. In this empirically
based article we focus on a group of Danish
adults’ considerations about meals. On this
basis we wish somewhat to modify the
assumption which is implicit in the literature,
as well as in public debate; namely, that the
daily family meal is the foundation for
integration of the individual household
members into a group, i.e. that it is the basis
for the making of the family. Our material
shows that the family meal is indeed an ideal
that adults strive to realise. However, adults
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are ambigious in this endeavour, as they are
very considerate about adolescents’ social
activities outside the home. In faet we find
that adults contribute to the process of
individualisation which occurs during the
teenage period, by accomodating mealtimes
or accepting non-attendance at meals. The
project of making the family appears to be an
adult project, to which the adolescents are
not expected to contribute. Rather, adults
acknowledge the need and desire of
adolescents to liberale themselves from the
household unit.
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