ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the specific ways of discursively organizing families (hereafter, regimes of practice) are analyzed through investigating incidents of parent and child conflict to show how adult rules from each regime of practice were used in the course of daily domesticity. This reveals that regimes of practice are the very disciplinary techniques through which families and individuals in them are normalized. The pervasiveness of normalizing processes is exemplified by the way in which these processes, once established, exert such control over the body that persons become self-regulating.
