Families in transition : social change, family formation and kin relationships / Nickie Charles, Charlotte Aull Davies and Chris Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charles, Nickie.

Contributor:

Davies, Charlotte Aull.

Harris, C. C. (Christopher Charles)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Families.

Social change--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.

Contents:

FAMILIES IN TRANSITION; Contents; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Understanding families and social change; Understanding social change; Empirical research; An alternative approach; The family and social change revisited; 2. Changing societies; Structural and cultural change in the UK; Structural and cultural change in Swansea; The baseline study; The restudy; A note on class; 3. Changing families; The family in decline?; Continuity in the face of change; Mothers and daughters; Class differences in patterns of contact; Cultural identity

Increased occupational differentiation within kinship groups Discussion; 4. Families and cultural identity; Place and cultural identity; Cultural identities in Swansea, 1960 and 2002; Cultural identities and family relations; Families and the reproduction of cultural identity; Cultural differentiation; 5. Families in and out of work; Unemployment, social exclusion and gender divisions of labour; Types of support; Contact and support; Being there; Financial and practical support; Employment or labour; Emotional support; Support with strings; Unemployment; Discussion; 6. Caring families

Caring for children Relationship breakdown; Caring for parents; Ill-health and bereavement; The gendering of care; Class, kinship networks and care; Discussion; 7. Dispersed kin; Geographical mobility; Support at a distance; Caring at a distance; The significance of class; Independence and individualism; Family occasions; Transnational kinship networks; The significance of place; Discussion; 8. Families, friends and communities; Household composition, 1960 and 2002; Family and family-like relationships; Communities and social change; Discussion; 9. What is the future for the family?

The policy context The findings of the restudy; Implications for theory; What is the future for the family?; Appendix 1. Methodological problems in comparisons of class over time; Appendix 2. Swansea boundary changes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jan 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611975456

9781447302308

1447302303

9781281975454

1281975451

9781847423603

1847423604

OCLC:

317426191