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Autore: | Zimmerman Shirley |
Titolo: | Understanding family policy [[electronic resource] ] : theories & applications / / Shirley L. Zimmerman |
Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1995 |
Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 287 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.850973 |
Soggetto topico: | Family policy - United States |
Family policy | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Definitions,Trends, and Models; Chapter 1 - Defining Family Policy; Chapter 2 - Family Trends: The Empirical Basis for Changing Family Definitions; Chapter 3 - Family Trends in Context; Chapter 4 - Competing Definitions of Family and Policy Trends: A Social Change Model; Part II - Policy Frameworks: Converting Perceptions of Family Problems into Policies and Programs for Families; Chapter 5 - The Institutional Framework: Family Policy as the Outcome of Institutional Arrangements; Chapter 6 - The Rational Choice Framework |
Chapter 7 - Variations on Policy as Rational ChoiceChapter 8 - Interest Group Theory, Elite Theory, and Systems Theory; Part III - Family Frameworks: Tools for Conceptualizing Family Well-Being; Chapter 9 - Families as Social Systems and as Systems of Exchange and Choice; Chapter 10 - Symbolic Interaction, Family Stress Theory, Conflict Theory, Feminist and Cultural Theories; Part IV - Putting It All Back Together; Chapter 11 - Refraining the Policy-Family Relationship So It Works Better for Families; References; Index; About the Author | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 2nd edition continues to provide the conceptual framework, which enables students and professionals to examine and analyze government policies and their impact on the family. New features include: new theoretical frameworks and their applications; an update of the recent history of family policy; a reinforcement of the link between theory and the everyday life experiences people have with the policy process; and study questions and a glossary. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Understanding family policy |
ISBN: | 1-4522-4365-4 |
0-8039-5460-3 | |
1-4522-4763-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779234703321 |
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