| Family Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wilson, Adrian (Author) |
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ISBN: 041506564X ISBN-13: 9780415065641 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable - Social Science | Sociology - General - Family & Relationships |
| Dewey: 306.85 |
| Series: Society Now |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 138 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Adrian Wilson provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the family. The book opens with a chapter on family structure, looking at the family historically and in cross-cultural perspective. Following this is a review first of theoretical approaches to the family, including functionalist, feminist, Marxist and radical criticism, and second, how the family is studied sociologically. Chapters 4 and 5 look at the changing British family and British families today, and the concluding chapters examine family problems, for example, divorce, violence, one -parent families, and the family and the state. |