‘This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies… Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis.’
– David H J Morgan, University of Manchester
‘Written in an intelligent, engaging, and accessible manner by two leading and highly respected family scholars whose contributions to the field over the past two decades have been path-breaking. This is an important resource for students and professionals studying, and working in, the field of family studies within and across the disciplines of sociology, social policy, social work, health studies, education, and gender studies.’
– Andrea Doucet, Carleton University
This book′s individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise key topics within the study of family lives. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful cross-referencing allowing students to move effortlessly between core ideas and themes. Each entry provides:
- Clear definitions
- Lucid accounts of key issues
- Up-to-date suggestions for further reading
- Informative cross-referencin.
Relevant, focused and accessible, this book will provide students with an indispensible guide to the central concepts of family studies.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
Attachment and Loss
Biology
Care
Child Development
Childhood and Children
Comparative Approaches
Conflict Theories
Coupledom: Marriage, Partnership and Cohabitation
Demography
Division of Labour
Domestic Violence and Abuse
Families of Choice
Family as Discourse
Family Change and Continuity
Family Effects
Family Forms
Family Law
Family Life Cycle and Life Course
Family Policies
Family Practices
Family Systems
Fatherhood, Fathers and Fathering
Feminisms
Functionalism
Grandparents
Home
Household
Individualization
Intimacy
Kinship
Motherhood, Mothers and Mothering
Negotiation
New Right
Parenthood, Parents and Parenting
Personal
Phenomenological Approaches
Post-Coupledom: Separation, Divorce and Widowhood
Power
Problem Families
Public and Private
Rationalities
Role Theory
Siblings
Social Divisions
Socialization
Transnational Families
Circa l’autore
Rosalind Edwards is a professor of sociology and a codirector of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton. She is an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a founding and coeditor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. She has published widely on qualitative and mixed methods, including books on Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes (2017, coedited with J. Goodwin, H. O’Connor, and A. Phoenix), What Is Qualitative Interviewing (2013, with J. Holland), and a Qualitative Research special issue on “Democratising Research Methods” (2017, coedited with T. Brannelly). Currently, she is part of a team exploring the feasibility of conducting secondary analysis across existing data from several qualitative longitudinal studies: http://bigqlr.ncrm.ac.uk/
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