| Edition |
[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (50 entries) ; digital files. |
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text rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
SAGE key concepts |
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SAGE key concepts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
This book's individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise key topics within the study of family lives. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful cross-referencing allowing students to move effortlessly between core ideas and themes. Each entry provides: clear definitions; lucid accounts of key issues; up-to-date suggestions for further reading; and, informative cross-referencing. Relevant, focused and accessible, this book will provide students with an indispensible guide to the central concepts of family studies. |
| Form |
Also available in print. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Families.
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Families -- Research.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, Rosalind, author.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Added Title |
Family studies. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 1412920051 9781412920056 (DLC) 2010926864 vii, 247 pages |
| ISBN |
9781412920056 hbk. |
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1412920051 hbk. |
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141292006X pbk. |
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9781412920063 pbk. |
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9781784029739 electronic version |
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