Key concepts in family studies

Main Author: McCarthy, Jane Ribbens
Other Authors: Edwards, Rosalind
Language:English
Published: London: SAGE Publications, 2011.
Series:SAGE key concepts
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Attachment and loss
  • Biology
  • Care
  • Child development
  • Childhood/children
  • Comparative approaches
  • Conflict theories
  • Coupledom : marriage/partnership/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/fathering
  • Feminisms
  • Functionalism
  • Grandparents
  • Home
  • Household
  • Individualization
  • Intimacy
  • Kinship
  • Motherhood/mothers/mothering
  • Negotiation
  • New right
  • Parenthood/parents/parenting
  • Personal
  • Phenomenological approaches
  • Post-coupledom : separation/divorce/widowhood
  • Power
  • Problem families
  • Public and private
  • Rationalities
  • Role theory
  • Siblings
  • Social division
  • Socialization
  • Transnational families