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Researching families and communities : social and generational change / edited by Rosalind Edwards.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Relationships and resourcesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Description: x, 214 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415427118
  • 9780415427111
  • 0415427126
  • 9780415427128
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.0904501 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ518 .R434 2008
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking About Families and Communities Over Time -- 3. Are Community Studies Still 'Good to Think With'? -- 4. Rewriting Sexuality and History -- 5. Families in Black and Minority Ethnic Communities and Social Capital: Past and Continuing False Prophesies in Social Studies -- 6. Secondary Analysis in Investigating Family Change: Exploring Substantive and Conceptual Questions -- 7. Recycling the Evidence: Different Approaches to the Reanalysis of Elite Life Histories -- 8. The Family and Social Change Revisited -- 9. Capturing Locality Change: The Family and Community Life of Older People -- 10. The UK Millennium Cohort Study: The Circumstances of Early Motherhood -- 11. Using Longitudinal Data to Examine Living Alone in England and Wales: 1971-2000 -- 12. From Educational Priority Areas to Area-Based Interventions: Community, Neighbourhood and Preschool.
Summary: "Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about and research the nature of the present in relation to the past and vice versa? Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change explores the concepts and perspectives that guide research and the methods used to explore change during the last half of the twentieth century and into the new millennium. It highlights the complexities of continuities alongside change, the importance of the perspectives that shape investigation, and the need to engage with situated data. This edited text includes contributions from experts in their field who: address these overarching trends explore the possibilities and practice of secondary analysis or replication studies, as well as longitudinal large scale data sets discuss varied aspects of family and community life, including sexuality, ethnicity, parenting resources, older people, intergenerational family life, solo living and many others. This book will appeal to academics and students interested in family and community across a range of social science disciplines, and to those in the social research field."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking About Families and Communities Over Time -- 3. Are Community Studies Still 'Good to Think With'? -- 4. Rewriting Sexuality and History -- 5. Families in Black and Minority Ethnic Communities and Social Capital: Past and Continuing False Prophesies in Social Studies -- 6. Secondary Analysis in Investigating Family Change: Exploring Substantive and Conceptual Questions -- 7. Recycling the Evidence: Different Approaches to the Reanalysis of Elite Life Histories -- 8. The Family and Social Change Revisited -- 9. Capturing Locality Change: The Family and Community Life of Older People -- 10. The UK Millennium Cohort Study: The Circumstances of Early Motherhood -- 11. Using Longitudinal Data to Examine Living Alone in England and Wales: 1971-2000 -- 12. From Educational Priority Areas to Area-Based Interventions: Community, Neighbourhood and Preschool.

"Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about and research the nature of the present in relation to the past and vice versa? Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change explores the concepts and perspectives that guide research and the methods used to explore change during the last half of the twentieth century and into the new millennium. It highlights the complexities of continuities alongside change, the importance of the perspectives that shape investigation, and the need to engage with situated data. This edited text includes contributions from experts in their field who: address these overarching trends explore the possibilities and practice of secondary analysis or replication studies, as well as longitudinal large scale data sets discuss varied aspects of family and community life, including sexuality, ethnicity, parenting resources, older people, intergenerational family life, solo living and many others. This book will appeal to academics and students interested in family and community across a range of social science disciplines, and to those in the social research field."--Publisher's website.

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