The Family: Change or Continuity?

The Family: Change or Continuity?
ISBN-10
134918442X
ISBN-13
9781349184422
Series
The Family
Category
Social Science
Pages
247
Language
English
Published
1986-10-27
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Faith Robertson Elliot

Description

Faith Elliot's book has a coherence unusual in a textbook. As its title suggests, it directs our attention to change and continuity in the family. It reviews debates about the biological origins of the nuclear family and gender roles, accounts of the development of the conjugal family as the dominant family form in modern Western societies and of change in the roles of men and women within and without the family, the remodelling of the conjugal family consequent on the legitimation of divorce and the emergence of one-parent families and remarriage families, and the development of alternative lifestyles as exemplified in unmarried cohabitation, same-sex pairings and group living. The book considers Marxist and feminist approaches alongside the functional approaches which have been more traditional in the sociological study of the family.

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