| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 教育學系 === 104 === Abstract
This study uses qualitative research methods to inquire into the experience of the shaping and practicing of fatherhood. The participants are three fathers in dual-earner families with low socioeconomic status. Through the participants narration, I gathered the data for analysis. First, this study aims to understand the shaping and practicing of fatherhood of fathers, raising pre-school children, in dual-earner families with low socioeconomic status. Second, this study aims to explore the current situations of the divisions of chores and parenting activities between husband and wife. Third, this study intends to supplement to domestic researches into the fatherhood in dual-earner families with low socioeconomic status.
This study shows that:
1. The gap in the concepts of raising children between the current and the last generations. There are significant differences in how to educate and raise children between the participants and their earlier generations. The role of economic arteries has not changed; however, they have a fair regard for the economic mission as well as the children companion.
2. The advocacy of views of raising children of the middle class. The participants receive such messages in their lives. No matter if they purposely look for the relative information, or if they take over in formation from mass media, companions and patience are the core of the answers to the self-evaluation of the participants' fatherhood. Imitating the way of raising children of the middle class has become a trend and the answer to upbringing. This shows that laborer fathers also care about if they do right and doubt that their cultural capital has not been admitted by educational systems.
3. The responses and interaction in the process of practicing raising children. The practice of fatherhood has fathers sense their families more and more profoundly. Departing from the single lives, they have to not only consider their whole family's livelihood but also make decisions from their family's standpoint. Men most orientate themselves as fathers. They also have to constantly restrict their personal behaviors.
4. A laborer father is a "family supporter" who endeavors to make a living and a caretaker who knows better than does. The main role of a laborer father is a "family supporter." Although he can accept the new raising concept implying sex equality, he cannot put it into practice. That is largely due to the daily toil. He is unable to be a caretaker with a patient companion so he is forced to transfer his fatherhood into the identity of a "family supporter." Such an identity has no choice but to be deepened as a granted normality and habit.
5. The latent reason of gender division labor: parenting gatekeepers and selective parenting. Laborer fathers accept the concept of gender equality, but they still believe the notion of God-given motherhood after raising children.
6. Large investments in education but low expectations. Working class expects to promote children's available cultural capital by education option. But with the restrictions on the economy and the frustration of their past school achievements, the participants do not have high expectation for their children's future jobs.
Key Words
Families with Low Socioeconomic Status, Fatherhood, Dual-Earner Families, Cultural Capital
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