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Key Concepts in Family Studies
Contributor(s): Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (Author), Edwards, Rosalind (Author)
ISBN: 141292006X     ISBN-13: 9781412920063
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $48.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family
Dewey: 306.85
LCCN: 2010926864
Series: Key Concepts (Sage)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:
Key Concepts in Family Studie′s individual entries introduce, explain and contextualize the key topics within the study of the family. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful cross-referencing allowing students to move effortlessly between core ideas and themes. Each entry provides clear definitions, lucid accounts of key issues, up-to-date suggestions for further reading, and informative cross-referencing.

Relevant, focused and accessible this book will provide students with an indispensible guide to the central concepts of family studies.


Contributor Bio(s): Edwards, Rosalind: - Rosalind Edwards is a professor of sociology and a codirector of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton. She is an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a founding and coeditor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. She has published widely on qualitative and mixed methods, including books on Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes (2017, coedited with J. Goodwin, H. O'Connor, and A. Phoenix), What Is Qualitative Interviewing (2013, with J. Holland), and a Qualitative Research special issue on "Democratising Research Methods" (2017, coedited with T. Brannelly). Currently, she is part of a team exploring the feasibility of conducting secondary analysis across existing data from several qualitative longitudinal studies: http: //bigqlr.ncrm.ac.uk/
Ribbens McCarthy, Jane: - Jane Ribbens McCarthy is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. She has long-standing interests in family sociology, particularly around parent-child relationships, and her research has included, among other things, mothers and their children, parenting and step-parenting, and the family lives of young people aged 16-18. She has published extensively on these areas, on qualitative methodologies, including auto/biography, and on theories of public and private. Her most recent book, with Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies, is Making Families: Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting, Sociologypress, 2003. She is currently engaged on a literature review on 'Young People, Bereavement and Loss'. Further details of her work can be found at http: //www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/jribbens-mccarthy/