Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change and Inequalities

ISBN-13: 9780367483401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Sheila Quaid; Catriona Hugman; Angela Wilcock

Opis

This book is a vital new resource in the sociological study of family life in the 21st century. Chapters explore a range of family and intimate life experiences, such as personal choices about reproduction and how life choices and family forms are mediated by location, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, income, and government policy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Negotiating families and personal lives in the 21^st Century 2. Identity and kinship in lesbian parental families 3. Misrecognising ‘complex’ families: a social harm perspective 4. Understanding personal lives: after individualisation 5. Disrupting doxa about children in care: Research from England 6. Negotiating intimacy and family at distance: Living apart together (LAT) relationships in China 7. Of salsa and singlemuslim.com: ethnographic insights about identity shifts and changed self-concepts in middle aged women’s post-separation/divorce transitions 8. Exploring understandings of domestic violence with women in Sunderland: Negotiating and positioning emotionality within sensitive research 9. Displaying family in a digital age: How parents negotiate technology, visibility and privacy 10. Situating visual stories using photo elicitation and biographical narrative methods: Visual representations of family life in South Africa 11. Socially just, authentic research with families in Jamaica, Australia and the UK 12. Looking ahead: What does this mean for the sociology of families and personal lives in the future?