| Description |
xx, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life |
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Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Structure and outline -- Behind closed doors: the project and empirical data -- Troubling terminology -- Researching families and childhood -- Family studies -- Childhood research -- Researching sensitive topics -- Ethical issues in families research -- Methodological approaches and family research methods -- National surveys and questionnaire research -- Longitudinal research and studies of lifecourse -- Narrative inquiry and auto/biographical approach -- Qualitative research -- Framing research and analysing data -- Conceptualisations of intimacy -- Intimacy and affective function -- The detraditionalisation of intimacy -- Embodied intimacy -- Intimate citizenship -- Mapping intimacy 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 -- Conclusion -- Future research -- Mixing methods: a family portrait -- Empirical complexities and conflicting narratives |
| Summary |
"Researching Intimacy of Families introduces and invigorates understandings of intimacy and family relationships through an incisive engagement with the sociology of intimacy and interpersonal relationships in the comtemporary Western society and the methods needed to research families, children and personal 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 |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2008. With new foreword |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Families -- Psychological aspects.
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Intimacy (Psychology)
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| ISBN |
0230248098 (paperback) |
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9780230248090 (paperback) |
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