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Author Charles, Nickie.

Title Families in transition : social change, family formation and kin relationships / Nickie Charles, Charlotte Aull Davies and Chris Harris
Published Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Contents 1. Understanding families and socil change -- 2. Changing societies -- 3. Changing families -- 4. Families and cultural identity -- 5. Families in and out of work -- 6. Caring families -- 7. Dispersed kin -- 8. Families, friends and communities -- 9. What is the future for the family? -- Appendices: 1. Methodological problems in comparisons of class over time -- 2. Swansea boundary changes
Summary This book addresses the complexity of family change. It draws on evidence from two linked studies, one carried out in the 1960s and the other in the early years of the 21st century, to analyse the specific ways in which family lives have changed and how they have been affected by the major structural and cultural changes of the second half of the twentieth century. The book shows that, while there has undeniably been change, there is a surprising degree of continuity in family practices. It casts doubt on claims that families have been subject to a process of dramatic change and provides an alternative account which is based on careful analysis of empirical data
Analysis Social issues & welfare
Notes "The research reported in this book was inspired by Rosser and Harris's study of the family in Swansea which was conducted in 1960 and published in 1965 as The family and social change. It takes the form of a restudy"--Page xi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index
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Subject Families -- Wales -- Swansea
Families -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
Families
Social change
Social conditions
Familie
Sozialer Wandel
SUBJECT Swansea (Wales) -- Social conditions
Subject Great Britain
Wales -- Swansea
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Davies, Charlotte Aull.
Harris, C. C. (Christopher Charles)
Rosser, Colin. Family and social change
ISBN 9781847423603
1847423604
9781447302308
1447302303
Other Titles Social change, family formation and kin relationships