Producing Family Time: Practices of Leisure Activity Beyond the Home

摘要: Family life is conducted in public as well at home, but the aspect of family activity seldom studied (a pattern that tends to reproduce “privatized” notions life). This observational study examines one site for activity, community zoo. I show visiting zoo involves group a routinized reinforces significant social boundaries, including those membership. Conceptually, analysis identifies parental work practices—based on mostly implicit ideologies life—whose skills are treated some moments unremarkable and other circumstances key signifiers “good parenting.” My aim bring into view settings within which parents pursue such activities with children, thereby illustrating an analytic approach locates these practices broader landscape.