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Understanding family policy : theories & applications / Shirley L. Zimmerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimmerman, Shirley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family policy--United States.
- Family policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 287 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This 2nd edition continues to provide the conceptual framework, which enables students and professionals to examine and analyze government policies and their impact on the family. New features include: new theoretical frameworks and their applications; an update of the recent history of family policy; a reinforcement of the link between theory and the everyday life experiences people have with the policy process; and study questions and a glossary.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Definitions,Trends, and Models; Chapter 1 - Defining Family Policy; Chapter 2 - Family Trends: The Empirical Basis for Changing Family Definitions; Chapter 3 - Family Trends in Context; Chapter 4 - Competing Definitions of Family and Policy Trends: A Social Change Model; Part II - Policy Frameworks: Converting Perceptions of Family Problems into Policies and Programs for Families; Chapter 5 - The Institutional Framework: Family Policy as the Outcome of Institutional Arrangements; Chapter 6 - The Rational Choice Framework
- Chapter 7 - Variations on Policy as Rational ChoiceChapter 8 - Interest Group Theory, Elite Theory, and Systems Theory; Part III - Family Frameworks: Tools for Conceptualizing Family Well-Being; Chapter 9 - Families as Social Systems and as Systems of Exchange and Choice; Chapter 10 - Symbolic Interaction, Family Stress Theory, Conflict Theory, Feminist and Cultural Theories; Part IV - Putting It All Back Together; Chapter 11 - Refraining the Policy-Family Relationship So It Works Better for Families; References; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781452243658
- 1452243654
- 9780803954601
- 0803954603
- 9781452247632
- 1452247633
- OCLC:
- 821725011
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