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Research and Publications
Research Questions
Our specific research questions include the following:
- How do rituals and celebrations structure the life of families
over the day, the week, the month and the year?
- How are family culture, traditions and histories created?
- Who are family story-tellers, and how do family "myths" come
about?
- What is the importance of religious ritual and stories in everyday
family life?
- Where do important rituals take place: the home, at work, with
friends, in the community, in cyberspace?
- What is the importance of food and eating rituals such as: Dinnertime.
Fast food. Meals on the run. The role of food in family culture.
Going out to eat?
- Does a stable ritual life reduce physiological stress levels?
- Family schedules: is there common time for family life any more?
- What is the ritual role of sports in working families?
- What rituals do we have to deal with sickness and death?
- The role of media in creating/disseminating myths about the
family?
- What do we know about rituals for connecting families in time
and space: family reunions, holidays, celebrations, email?
- What are African-American and Asian-American middle class family
rituals and how might they be distinct?
- What inventive uses of ritual are created in forging family
culture in "mixed-marriages?"
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