SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Family Studies

Editor/Author McCarthy, Jane Ribbens and Edwards, Rosalind
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Sage UK

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-4129-2005-6
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

Key Concepts in Family Studies provides individual entries that introduce, explain and contextualize the key topics within the study of the family.

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 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 Divisions
  • Socialization
  • Transnational Families
  • References