Understanding family meanings : a reflective text /
Family Studies is a key area of policy, professional and personal debate. Perhaps precisely because of this, teaching texts have struggled with how to approach this area, which is both 'familiar' and also contentious and value laden. This innovative and reflective book deals with such dile...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding family meanings
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Why family meanings?
- 1 Introducing �family meanings�
- 1.1 Core questions
- 1.2 Exploring values and assumptions
- 1.3 Structures of power and inequalities
- 2 Can we, and should we, define what wemean by �family�?
- 2.1 Attempting definitions
- 2.2 Responding to the problems
- 2.3 What�s so difficult?
- 2.4 The slippery language of �family�
- 3 So what is �family�?
- 4 What�s next?
- Introduction to Part 1
- Part 1. Research
- Chapter 2. Family meanings in contemporary contexts1 Introduction
- 2 Do family meanings matter?
- 2.1 Family meanings matter to people in their individual lives and relationships
- 2.2 Family meanings matter in social policies and professional practices
- 2.3 Family meanings matter in family studies
- 3 What do social scientists mean by �meanings�?
- 3.1 Meanings in social lives
- 3.2 Evaluating meanings?
- 3.3 Two meanings of �meaning�
- 3.4 Meanings in context
- 4 Everyday family meanings
- 5 Overarching themes of family meanings
- 6 Layers of meanings in variable settings7 Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Teasing threads apart
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Exploring qualitative research
- 2.1 Introducing the studies
- 2.2 Reading critically
- 2.3 Framing questions
- 3 Teasing threads apart
- 4 Ideals and daily experiences � living up to �family�
- 5 Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Understanding �family� and household through quantitative evidence
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Categories, boundaries and counting families
- 2.1 Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative research
- 2.2 Geographical boundaries2.3 Families and categories
- 3 The census and the household
- 4 Reading and interpreting quantitative data
- 4.1 Reading statistics with a critical eye
- 4.2 Trends and time frames
- 5 Beyond the official statistics: other quantitative research about families
- 6 Comparing households and families
- 7 Conclusions
- Part 2: Theories and concepts
- Introduction to Part 2
- Chapter 5. Family discourses and family practices
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Discourses of family
- 2.1 What is discourse?
- 2.2 Family discourse and social power2.3 Competing discourses
- 2.4 Discourse, power, negotiation and the patterning of meaning
- 3 Family practices
- 3.1 Why family practices?
- 3.2 Families are what families do: the example of family leisure
- 4 Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Intimacy and personal life
- 1 Introduction
- 2 From �family� to �intimacy� and �personal life�
- 3 Intimacies
- 3.1 Alternative views of the �transformation of intimacy�
- 3.2 Diverse intimacies
- 4 Personal life
- 5 Conclusions
- Part 3: Contexts
