Informationen zum Autor John Muncie is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, Margaret Wetherell is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Mary Langan is Lecturer in Social Policy, Rudi Dallos is Staff Tutor in Psychology and Clinical Psychology and Allan Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. They are all at The Open University. CONTRIBUTORS Hilary Land Bristol University Mary Langan Open University Roger Sapsford University of Teesside Lynne Segal Middlesex University Klappentext Altogether an excellent collection for students of social policy, social care or social work, covering as it does both subjective and objective features of family life and the logics of inequality within which they are embedded' - Child and Family Social WorkRevised and updated, the Second Edition of this bestselling book presents an interdisciplinary account of how the family is constituted in the public' and private' spheres. Zusammenfassung An introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how "the family" is constituted in the public and private spheres! and outline the tensions that exist between the dominant assumptions of state and society and the lived realities and everyday experiences of family life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Public Definitions and Private Lives PART ONE: POLITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW Issues in the Study of The Family - John Muncie and Roger Sapsford Family Policy and Political Discourse - John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell Families and the Law - Hilary Land Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities - Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford PART TWO: INTERACTIONS AND IDENTITIES Constructing Family Life - Rudi Dallos Family Belief Systems Social Structure, Ideology and Family Dynamics - Margaret Wetherell The Case of Parenting The Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Life - Margaret Wetherell A Feminist Looks at the Family - Lynne Segal Endnote - Roger Sapsford Public and Private ...

Klappentext

Altogether an excellent collection for students of social policy, social care or social work, covering as it does both subjective and objective features of family life and the logics of inequality within which they are embedded' - Child and Family Social WorkRevised and updated, the Second Edition of this bestselling book presents an interdisciplinary account of how the family is constituted in the public' and `private' spheres.

Zusammenfassung
An introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how "the family" is constituted in the public and private spheres, and outline the tensions that exist between the dominant assumptions of state and society and the lived realities and everyday experiences of family life.

Inhalt

Introduction
Public Definitions and Private Lives
PART ONE: POLITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW
Issues in the Study of `The Family - John Muncie and Roger Sapsford
Family Policy and Political Discourse - John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell
Families and the Law - Hilary Land
Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities - Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford
PART TWO: INTERACTIONS AND IDENTITIES
Constructing Family Life - Rudi Dallos
Family Belief Systems
Social Structure, Ideology and Family Dynamics - Margaret Wetherell
The Case of Parenting
The Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Life - Margaret Wetherell
A Feminist Looks at the Family - Lynne Segal
Endnote - Roger Sapsford
Public and Private