Families, Households and Society: Sociology for a Changing World

Author: Graham Crow Professor Graham Allan
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Category: Sociology, Sociology: Family & Relationships, Family & Relationships
Book Format: Paperback

Patterns of household and family life are changing radically leading sociologists to develop new conceptualizations and understandings of the relationships involved. This book examines the character of these changes, exploring the growing diversity there is in people's domestic circumstances. It is particularly concerned with the blurred boundaries between households and families, and the tensions that can arise in the solidarities and obligations experienced as household and family processes unfold.

Table Of Contents
Changing Families: Changing Households.- Family and Demographic Change.- Leaving Home: Becoming Adult.- Love, Cohabitation and Early Marriage.- Marriage: The Structure of Domestic Relationships.- Lone-Parent Families: Divorce and Single Parenthood.- Step-Families: Reconfiguring Family and Household Boundaries.- Families and Households in Later Life.- Households and Families: Commonalities and Differentiation.
About Graham Allan
GRAHAM ALLAN is Reader in Sociology at the University of Southampton.
GRAHAM CROW is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton.

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SKU BK-9780333693070
Barcode # 9780333693070
Brand Macmillan Education UK
Artist / Author Graham Crow Professor Graham Allan
Shipping Weight 0.3300kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.220m
Assembled Length 21.600m
Assembled Height 1.400m
Assembled Width 14.000m
Type Paperback

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