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Analysing families : morality and rationality in policy and practice /

The family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy. This text directly addresses the social processes responsible for the changes - how social policy interacts with what families actually do.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carling, Alan H., Duncan, Simon, Edwards, Rosalind
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part Part I Introduction
  • chapter 1 Family policy, social theory and the state / Alan Carling
  • chapter 2 A portrait of Western families: new models of intimate relationships and the timing of life events
  • New models of intimate relationships and the timing / María José González-López
  • part Part II Perspectives on family policy
  • chapter 3 Political intervention and family policy in Britain
  • about the existence of an adult worker model and the shift towards contractualism
  • chapter 4 Political intervention and family policy in Europe and the USA
  • in East and West Germany / Birgit Pfau-Effinger
  • chapter 5 New Labour, the rationality mistake and family policy in Britain / Anne Barlow
  • chapter 6 A third way? Moralities, ethics and families: an approach through the ethic of care SELMA SEVENHUIJSEN
  • An approach through the ethic of care / Selma Sevenhuijsen
  • part Part III Family practices
  • chapter 7 Sociological perspectives on the family DAV I D M O RG A N / David Morgan
  • chapter 8 Policy and rhetoric: the growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain LY N DA CLARKE AND CERIDWEN RO B E RT S
  • The growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain / Lynda Clarke
  • chapter 9 Caring, earning and changing: parenthood and employment after divorce BREN NEALE AND C A RO L SMA RT
  • Parenthood and employment after divorce / Bren Neale
  • chapter 10 The individual in public and private
  • The significance of mothers and children / Jane Ribbens McCarthy
  • chapter 11 Elective families
  • Lesbian and gay life experiments / Jeffrey Weeks
  • part Part IV Modelling families
  • chapter 12 Economic theory, norms and the care gap, or
  • Why do economists become parents? / Susan Himmelweit
  • chapter 13 The 'balance model': theorising women's employment behaviour JUDITH G L OV E R
  • Theorising women's employment behaviour / Judith Glover
  • chapter 14 Computer simulation of family practices EDMUND C H AT TOE / Edmund Chattoe
  • part PART V Conclusion
  • chapter 15 Families, moralities, rationalities and social change / Graham Crow.