Families in transition : social change, family formation, and kin relationships / / Nickie Charles, Charlotte Aull Davies, and Chris Harris [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Charles Nickie
• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306.850941
• Soggetto topico: Families - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Social change - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Persona (resp. second.): DaviesCharlotte Aull; HarrisC. C (Christopher Charles)
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jan 2022).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: FAMILIES IN TRANSITION; Contents; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Understanding families and social change; Understanding social change; Empirical research; An alternative approach; The family and social change revisited; 2. Changing societies; Structural and cultural change in the UK; Structural and cultural change in Swansea; The baseline study; The restudy; A note on class; 3. Changing families; The family in decline?; Continuity in the face of change; Mothers and daughters; Class differences in patterns of contact; Cultural identity ; Increased occupational differentiation within kinship groups Discussion; 4. Families and cultural identity; Place and cultural identity; Cultural identities in Swansea, 1960 and 2002; Cultural identities and family relations; Families and the reproduction of cultural identity; Cultural differentiation; 5. Families in and out of work; Unemployment, social exclusion and gender divisions of labour; Types of support; Contact and support; Being there; Financial and practical support; Employment or labour; Emotional support; Support with strings; Unemployment; Discussion; 6. Caring families ; Caring for children Relationship breakdown; Caring for parents; Ill-health and bereavement; The gendering of care; Class, kinship networks and care; Discussion; 7. Dispersed kin; Geographical mobility; Support at a distance; Caring at a distance; The significance of class; Independence and individualism; Family occasions; Transnational kinship networks; The significance of place; Discussion; 8. Families, friends and communities; Household composition, 1960 and 2002; Family and family-like relationships; Communities and social change; Discussion; 9. What is the future for the family? ; The policy context The findings of the restudy; Implications for theory; What is the future for the family?; Appendix 1. Methodological problems in comparisons of class over time; Appendix 2. Swansea boundary changes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.
• Titolo autorizzato: Families in transition
• ISBN: 1-4473-0230-3; 1-281-97545-1; 9786611975456; 1-84742-360-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782734803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II