Culture familiari e pratiche di vita quotidiana. Modelli educativi e culturali nelle conversazioni tra genitori e bambini

The research focuses on the ordinary life parents/children interactions. Through a systematical consideration of the only seeming normality of interactions between parents and children, the analysis aims at enlarging the educational meaning of family practices in the process of everyday life. On the basis of a qualitative approach to interaction studies, talking-in-interaction is here considered as one of the most powerful means by which parents and children steadily construct, negotiate and maintain their reciprocal identities, roles, social positions. The analysis specifically focuses on the micro-order of family interactions in the way they take form in the domestic environment (every family household) and in a specific moment of the day (dinner time). To this effect a corpus of twenty-eight Italian family dinners recorded in their own household has been collected. This research intends to show how educational patterns, values orientations and cultural beliefs are steadily reproduced and reshaped in the context of daily, interactive micro-order.