社会学の臨床化の試み 2

現代社会の家族分析の基本的視点

抄録

　Today many family theorists point out the decline of the nuclear family and the diversification of existing family systems. For the effective intervention, therefore, it has been an important task of the clinicians to consider the family typology. In Family Paradigms, Larry Constantine shows a model of family typologies to assess the diverse family adaptations. His new framework consisting of four interrelated paradigms (synchronous, closed, random, open) is a useful tool to account for the varoius mechanisms of family function and dysfunction. One of the problem of this model is that it presumes the family life cycle to be a morphogenetic process developing from 'closed', through 'random' and 'open', to 'synchronous'. In clinical situation, the development of family system does not always show such an one-way movement. One family may changes from 'close' to 'open', and another from 'open' to 'closed'. And these change occurs ad hoc by resolving the particular problems of each family. In short, family changes multidirectinally. By using his creative framework from this standpoint, clinical analysis of the family will be sharpened more.