| Description |
x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in family sociology |
|
Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life |
|
Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
|
| Contents |
Introduction -- Researching families and childhood -- Family studies -- Childhood research -- Researching sensitive topics -- Ethical issues in families research -- Methodological frameworks and family research methods -- Survey and longitudinal research -- Narrative methodologies -- Cross-sectional analysis -- Qualitative methods -- Conceptualisations of intimacy -- Intimacy and affective function -- The de-traditionalisation of intimacy -- Embodied intimacy -- Intimate citizenship -- Mapping intimacy and sexuality in families -- Affective transformations -- The structuring of affective ties -- Intimate practices -- The affect of methods -- Representing family life -- Biographical narrative interviews -- Public scenarios and private lives -- Mixing methods: a family portrait -- The boundaries of intimacy -- Empirical contrarieties and narrative contradictions -- Concluding thoughts |
| Summary |
"Researching Intimacy of Families introduces and invigorates understandings of intimacy in family relationships. It offers an incisive engagement with the sociology of intimacy and the methods needed to research families, children and personal life. Using original data the book opens out the theoretical debate on intimacy and illustrates the potential of qualitative mixed-methods in capturing the richness and complexity of family life. Jacqui Gabb brings to life methodology teaching through extensive illustrations of methods in the context of families and childhood research, including innovatory methods and approaches designed and piloted by the author."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Families.
|
|
Intimacy (Psychology)
|
| LC no. |
2008015929 |
| ISBN |
9780230527225 (hbk.) |
|
0230527221 (hbk.) |
|
