Familjebegreppet: en diskursanalys

The purpose of this studie was to explore how the conception of the family is constructed, by doing a discourse analysis of texts from three differente perspective which are dealing with the family concept, and to difinite the areas where the discourses don´t agree. The three perspective was: Feminism, psykoanalysis and late modern sociology. My method was discourse analys. A discourse can be discribed as a way of talking about a part of the world. The discourseanalytic task is to definite the discourses, which the world is constructed by. Three areas of conflicts have been found: The families relation to the society, the immanent relationsships in the family, and the interpreting of different family constellations