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Understanding Family Meanings: A Reflective Text
Jane Ribbens McCarthy
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Description for Understanding Family Meanings: A Reflective Text
Paperback. Focuses on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding of everyday social lives and professional practices. This title provides the reader with an overview of the basic concepts and theories related to families. It also provides a foundation for any module in family studies. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 239 x 16. Weight in Grams: 518.
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 dilemmas head-on, through its focus on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding of everyday social lives and professional practices. Drawing on extracts and research by leading authors in the field of family studies, Understanding Family Meanings provides the reader with an overview of the basic concepts and theories related to families using ... Read more
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 dilemmas head-on, through its focus on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding of everyday social lives and professional practices. Drawing on extracts and research by leading authors in the field of family studies, Understanding Family Meanings provides the reader with an overview of the basic concepts and theories related to families using ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bristol University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
517g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447301127
SKU
V9781447301127
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99-50
About Jane Ribbens McCarthy
Jane Ribbens McCarthy is Reader in Family Studies at The Open University. She is an internationally established scholar on family and relationship studies and has helped to shape family sociology in significant ways over the years. She is currently Co-Director of the Families and Relationships programme within the Open University's prestigious Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance. Megan Doolittle is a ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Family Meanings: A Reflective Text
"A compelling and accessible book, Understanding family meanings combines conceptual sophistication with intriguing examples and helpful exercises. Highly recommended, it will be interest to undergraduate sociology and family studies students in general." Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri "Understanding family meanings inspires the reader to reflect on the fluid and dynamic nature of contemporary families. It is an important new ... Read more