An introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how "the family" is constituted in the public and private spheres, and outline the tensions that exist between the dominant assumptions of state and society and the lived realities and everyday experiences of family life.
Über den Autor
John Muncie is Professor of Criminology at the Open University. He has published extensively on youth culture, youth justice and criminological theory. Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Public Definitions and Private Lives
PART ONE: POLITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW
Issues in the Study of `The Family¿ - John Muncie and Roger Sapsford
Family Policy and Political Discourse - John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell
Families and the Law - Hilary Land
Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities - Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford
PART TWO: INTERACTIONS AND IDENTITIES
Constructing Family Life - Rudi Dallos
Family Belief Systems
Social Structure, Ideology and Family Dynamics - Margaret Wetherell
The Case of Parenting
The Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Life - Margaret Wetherell
A Feminist Looks at the Family - Lynne Segal
Endnote - Roger Sapsford
Public and Private
Klappentext
`Altogether an excellent collection for students of social policy, social care or social work, covering as it does both subjective and objective features of family life and the logics of inequality within which they are embedded' - Child and Family Social WorkRevised and updated, the Second Edition of this bestselling book presents an interdisciplinary account of how the family is constituted in the `public' and `private' spheres.
