| Ideal Homes?: Social Change and the Experience of the Home Contributor(s): Chapman, Tony (Editor), Hockey, Jenny (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415171210 ISBN-13: 9780415171212 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1999 Annotation: "Ideal Homes?" provides a fascinating analysis which reveals how both popular images and experiences of home life can produce vital clues as to how society's members produce and respond to social change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 304.230 |
| LCCN: 98-54119 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.32" W x 9.32" (1.12 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change. The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home. |