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The family and their relatives. Spatial planning

Abstract

This analysis is part of research into the nature of the relationship between the household and the broader family group. Data from a survey and from interviews are used to explore the origins and evolution of family organisation in an urban context. The results are striking. Four in ten people are found to have close links with a family member and to see them at least once a week; and in more than half of the cases they live in the same commune. Eight times out of ten a household that becomes temporarily homeless will be housed by members of its family. What emergences is the existence of a 'contact circle family' in which the individual is no longer considered to be defined by conventional family relations but by the network of close friends and relatives that he or she creates in the complex interaction of space, distance and proximity. An examination of the impact of spatial context - including that of professional life - on the changing bonds of affinity also adds to our understanding of the relations people establish with the close family that they have in a certain sense 'selected'. For just as spatial context helps to construct the social bond by facilitating contact and exchange, so the family organizes its own 'territories', which in turn become the contexts of reference for subsequent generations.

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