Questions to raise questions:
II - INDIRECT MEASURES OF HOUSEHOLD MEMBERSHIP
AND HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZATION
From the point of view of a household
Given an institutional boundary (this needs to be specified):
- property line (e..g. a 'single-family' house in the suburbs)
- house shell
- apartment (e.g. as bounded by a locked front door)
Who has keys?
Sleeping organization: Number of beds and assignements of the beds:
- who sleeps where?
- who sleep 'with' whom (same bed? same room?)?
Food preparation and consumption:
- who has access to the refrigerator?
- who may cook?
- who does cook, and what kind of meals
Care of the body:
- access to bathrooms
- acess to washing machine:
- who may wash?
- who does wash?
- whose clothes are washed with whose?
Labels for people who have access to the household:
- how are they addressed ("dad," "darling," "John")? by whom?
- how are they referred ("dad," "your mother," "John")? and by whom?
- kin classification: what kind of relationships (as labelled by members)
- by blood/marriage/other
- if "other," what:
- public "relationship" (partnership, etc.)
- private (unacknowledged) relationship ("my boyfriend but my
mother does not know about it")
- friendship
- other (roommaters, boarders, etc?)
(Used in the context of my course Dynamics
of Family Life)
Last revision: June 27, 1998