Key Concepts in Family Studies
eBook - ePub

Key Concepts in Family Studies

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Key Concepts in Family Studies

About this book

"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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Attachment and Loss
  8. Biology
  9. Care
  10. Child Development
  11. Childhood/Children
  12. Comparative Approaches
  13. Conflict Theories
  14. Coupledom: Marriage/Partnership/Cohabitation
  15. Demography
  16. Division of Labour
  17. Domestic Violence and Abuse
  18. Families of Choice
  19. Family as Discourse
  20. Family Change and Continuity
  21. Family Effects
  22. Family Forms
  23. Family Law
  24. Family Life Cycle and Life Course
  25. Family Policies
  26. Family Practices
  27. Family Systems
  28. Fatherhood/Fathers/Fathering
  29. Feminisms
  30. Functionalism
  31. Grandparents
  32. Home
  33. Household
  34. Individualization
  35. Intimacy
  36. Kinship
  37. Motherhood/Mothers/Mothering
  38. Negotiation
  39. New Right
  40. Parenthood/Parents/Parenting
  41. Personal
  42. Phenomenological Approaches
  43. Post-Coupledom: Separation/Divorce/Widowhood
  44. Power
  45. Problem Families
  46. Public and Private
  47. Rationalities
  48. Role Theory
  49. Siblings
  50. Social Divisions
  51. Socialization
  52. Transnational Families
  53. Index of sub-concepts
  54. References