| Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change and Inequalities Contributor(s): Quaid, Sheila (Editor), Hugman, Catriona (Editor), Wilcock, Angela (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0367483408 ISBN-13: 9780367483401 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Family & Relationships |
| Dewey: 306.85 |
| LCCN: 2021034307 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.03 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a vital new resource in the sociological study of family life in the 21st century. The chapters in this volume explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences, such as personal choices about reproduction and how life choices and family forms are mediated by factors including geographical location, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, income, and government policy. Through a series of evidence-based chapters, leading sociologists explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences and the contexts within which they are lived and experienced. Each chapter delves into the lives and experiences of people whose choices in some way seem to disrupt normative and traditional ideas of family, parenting and childhood. Family patterns and experiences of living apart together, troubled families, children in care, culture, coupledom, same sex families and digital technology are covered and examined innovatively through theoretical engagement. Chapters also incorporate innovative technologies and its use within family spaces that shape the nature of human relationships and interactions. These negotiations within the family are globally contextualised within the political and ideological frameworks of societies at any given moment in time. The work recognises the sensitivity of family and personal lives and incorporates the increasing need of the impact of emotionality that forms part of knowledge production. Additionally, innovative methods are showcased in chapters on researching the family through socially-just methods, researcher emotionality and visual data. By bringing together thought-provoking research findings and innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, this collection of essays raises and articulates relevant, timely and future thinking for its readers. This book will therefore be indispensable for students and researchers as well as professionals and policy makers interested in understanding family life in the 21st century. |
