Duff, Brian. 2014. Family and Citizenship in Political Theory and Political Science. Journal of Family Theory &Review 6: 45-59.
This article aims to analyze three dominant perspectives in understanding how family life has influenced the way people approach democratic citizenship in the United States. The first group is Aristotelian which considers family life as a threat to political life. The second group is a countervailing trend that requires that family life should be taken seriously and considered as a part of the political life. Scholars in this group believe that family enriches politics. The last group applies psychoanalysis to the study of the relationship between family life and political policy. It argues that our experience growing up in families has a profound influence our adult relationship to politics.Our experience in infant and youth provides the groundwork for our adult capacities and anxieties in engaging political life and claiming citizenship. In all, family life has a profound influence on the way we approach democratic citizenship, a crucial issue that political theory has traditionally grappled with more assiduously than has the filed of political science as a whole.
关于家庭生活和民主社会公民权的关系，这篇文章分析了大致三种主要的切入视角。第一种是延续亚里士多德学派。该学派认为家庭生活对于政治生活是一种威胁。第二种是截然相反的观点，或者说是反亚里士多德学派。该学派认为家庭生活是非常重要的，应该被视为政治生活十分重要的组成部分。并且，对于家庭生活的研究可以丰富我们对于政治学的理解。最后一种是精神分析学派。该学派认为我们孩童时期在家庭中的体验对于我们成年之后参与政治生活有着非常重要的影响，尤其是我们参与政治生活和形塑公民身份的能力。总而言之，家庭生活对于我们的民主公民权有着全方位的影响，也是政治学理论长久以来一直关注的领域。