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One dimension of the family institution is that it is an ideological construct. Here family ideology is understood to be created and upheld by societal institutions such as legislation, public policies, religion and so on. In other words, family ideology does not necessarily correspond to the reality of family formation, family structure and family life but, rather, it represents the culturally and socially shared conception of what The Family is or ought to be.
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Emile Durkheim (1888), Introduction á la sociologie de la famille. Annales de la faculté des Lettres de Bourdaux 10: 257–81.
I have dealt with the historical development of Finnish and Spanish civil legislation in the following publications: Oinonen, E. (2000a) ‘Nations’ Different Families? Contrasting Comparison of Finnish and Spanish ‘Ideological Families’. Working Papers 15. Mannheim: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung and Oinonen, E. (2000b) ‘Finnish and Spanish Family Institutions: Similarities and Differences’, in A. Pfennig and T. Bahle (eds) Family and Family Policies in Europe. Comparative Perspectives, Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, pp. 141–61.
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Oinonen, E. (2008). On Family Ideology. In: Families in Converging Europe. Palgrave Studies in Family Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583146_6
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