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Autore: | Charles Nickie |
Titolo: | Families in transition : social change, family formation and kin relationships / / Nickie Charles, Charlotte Aull Davies and Chris Harris |
Pubblicazione: | Bristol, : Policy, 2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 | |
Altri autori: | 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 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.: | 9910827013803321 |
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