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'What kind of mum are you at the moment?' : Supernanny and the psychologising of classed embodiment. / Jensen, Tracey Louisa.
In: Subjectivity, Vol. 3, No. 2, 07.2010, p. 170-192.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - 'What kind of mum are you at the moment?'
T2 - Supernanny and the psychologising of classed embodiment
AU - Jensen, Tracey Louisa
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - This paper examines the rehearsal of familiar debates about how to raise children within the genre of ‘transformational television’ in the UK. It explores the prevalence in symbolic and cultural fields of ideas about ‘poor parenting’ as an expression of pathological culture and lifestyle, alongside the psychological ethic that operates within transformational television. Using examples drawn from the Supernanny (Ricochet Productions, Channel 4, 2003), the most popular of these programmes, and drawing on the work of Nikolas Rose and Pierre Bourdieu, I argue that parenting acts as a significant site for the psychologising of a particular parental habitus, which in turn operates within a wider cultural moment of the individualisation of social inequalities.
AB - This paper examines the rehearsal of familiar debates about how to raise children within the genre of ‘transformational television’ in the UK. It explores the prevalence in symbolic and cultural fields of ideas about ‘poor parenting’ as an expression of pathological culture and lifestyle, alongside the psychological ethic that operates within transformational television. Using examples drawn from the Supernanny (Ricochet Productions, Channel 4, 2003), the most popular of these programmes, and drawing on the work of Nikolas Rose and Pierre Bourdieu, I argue that parenting acts as a significant site for the psychologising of a particular parental habitus, which in turn operates within a wider cultural moment of the individualisation of social inequalities.
KW - parenting
KW - reality television
KW - social class
KW - habitus
U2 - 10.1057/sub.2009.2
DO - 10.1057/sub.2009.2
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 170
EP - 192
JO - Subjectivity
JF - Subjectivity
SN - 1755-6341
IS - 2
ER -