An international textbook providing comprehensive coverage of over a dozen major topics in the sociology of family life; from interaction and meaning in families to sexuality. David Cheal provides coverage of these topics by drawing on material from countries around the world. The studies focus mainly on contemporary family life, but also present information on historical changes which have shaped family life as we know it today.
This book is an incredibly valuable teaching tool, presenting diversity in family patterns through thinking about...
An international textbook providing comprehensive coverage of over a dozen major topics in the sociology of family life; from i...
This lucid and accessible introductory text from a highly regarded author provides students who are encountering the sociology of the family for the first time with a systematic and stimulating way of thinking about the subject based on a core set of analytical questions. Coherent and persuasive, it blends theory with empirical examples drawn from all over the world, thus offering valuable insights into the differences and commonalities between families in quite diverse social and cultural contexts.
This lucid and accessible introductory text from a highly regarded author provides students who are encountering the sociology of the family for the f...
An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.
Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning in families to sexuality. David Cheal provides coverage of these topics by drawing on a variety of international material. Most of the studies focus on contemporary family life but Cheal...
An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comp...
This book looks at a range of sociological theories from the last two hundred years, along with five fundamental questions such as: what is the unit of analysis in sociology and what concepts of structure are embedded in the sociological view of the social world, and how have these concepts changed over time? With illustrations from the work of theorists such as John Stuart Mill, Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens and Erving Goffman, this book provides an accessible guide for introductory students of sociology taking their first course...
This book looks at a range of sociological theories from the last two hundred years, along with five fundamental questions such as: what is the unit o...
