Abstract

TOBON BERRIO, Luz Estela. Physical Punishment from the Narrative of Ordinary Fathers and Mothers. Between Tradition, Science and Law. Estud. Socio-Juríd [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.2, pp.263-290.  Epub Aug 15, 2021. ISSN 0124-0579.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.8365.

The article exposes the network of social thought where the ideological elements nested update the validity of physical punishment in the family’s daily life of ordinary fathers and mothers from the narrative of their parental experiences. A conceptual model of three discourses: tradition, legal, and expert, summarizes the discursive pressures to which fathers and mothers are subject in a historical moment of transition from the educational model of control permissive of physical violence, to a context of family education where the introduction of children’s rights question the use of pain as a resource for family pedagogy. The model was constructed from the data collected with the application of semi-structured interviews with parents in the city of Barranquilla, in an investigation under the critical qualitative approach. The analysis of the information was carried out through the construction of conceptualizing categories (Paillé & Mucchielli, 2012) that allow exposing the socio-legal phenomenon from the perspective of the subject and making the researcher a mediator between lived reality and textual production.

Keywords : Physical punishment; socio-legal research; parenting; legal discourse; family education.

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