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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Finch, Janet

Titel

Reflections on ourselves: family identities and transient encounters on holiday

Ist Teil von

• Families, relationships and societies, 2015-03, Vol.4 (1), p.71

Ort / Verlag

Bristol: Policy Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Sociological Abstracts

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• This article explores the significance of encounters that are fleeting or transient, with people who were previously unknown, in holiday settings. The transient nature of an encounter does not necessarily render it trivial, it is argued; rather, it can give it real potency and have enduring implications for constructing identities over time. The particular focus is on family identities, and on how transient encounters can refashion concepts of social class positioning in relation to one's own family. Holiday settings provide many opportunities for encounters, in public spaces, with a different range of people from those normally encountered. These issues are explored using data from a Mass Observation directive in 2010.