Families in transition : social change, family formation, and kin relationships / Nickie Charles, Charlotte Aull Davies, and Chris Harris.
Material type: TextPublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2008Description: xv, 265 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1861347898
- 9781861347893
- 186134788X
- 9781861347886
- 306.850941 22
- HQ613 .C435 2008
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.850941 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A451355B |
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306.850941 BLO Married cooperators / | 306.850941 CHA Changing Britain : families and households in the 1900s / | 306.850941 CHA Gender and domestic life : changing practices in families and households / | 306.850941 CHA Families in transition : social change, family formation, and kin relationships / | 306.850941 WIL Rethinking families / | 306.85094215 YOU Family and kinship in East London / | 306.850944 ARI Centuries of childhood : a social history of family life / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
1. Understanding families and social change -- 2. Changing societies -- 3. Changing families -- 4. Families and cultural identity -- 5. Families in and out of work -- 6. Caring families -- 7. Dispersed kin -- 8. Families, friends and communities -- 9. What is the future for the family? -- Appendix I. Methodological problems in comparisons of class over time -- Appendix II. Swansea boundary changes.
This book addresses the complexity of family change. It draws on evidence from two linked studies, one carried out in the 1960s and the other in the early years of the 21st century, to analyse the specific ways in which family lives have changed and how they have been affected by the major structural and cultural changes of the second half of the twentieth century. The book shows that, while there has undeniably been change, there is a surprising degree of continuity in family practices. It casts doubt on claims that families have been subject to a process of dramatic change and provides an alternative account which is based on careful analysis of empirical data.
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