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Families and their Relatives
As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in the volumes of The Sociology of Gender and the Family set of The International Library of Sociology set out to establish patterns and regularities in social behaviour, and to understand the social roles of kinship groups, mothers, wives, children and the elderly.
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Families and their Relatives
As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in the volumes of The Sociology of Gender and the Family set of The International Library of Sociology set out to establish patterns and regularities in social behaviour, and to understand the social roles of kinship groups, mothers, wives, children and the elderly.
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As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in the volumes of The Sociology of Gender and the Family set of The International Library of Sociology set out to establish patterns and regularities in social behaviour, and to understand the social roles of kinship groups, mothers, wives, children and the elderly.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138873803
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/02/2014
Series: International Library of Sociology
Pages: 492
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Firth, Hubert; Firth, Forge

Table of Contents

Introduction, Acknowledgements, Tables, Figures, PART I, 1. Kinship and Class in Metropolitan Society, 2. Methodology of this Study, 3. Social Character of the Areas and Samples Studied, PART II, 4. Kinship Ideology, 5. Factors in Kin Knowledge, 6. Structure of the Kin Universe, 7. Contact with Kin: The Effective Kin Set, 8. Kin Gatherings, 9. Kin Sets and Kin Groups, 10. Kin Terms and Status Relations, 11. Kinship Situations and Concepts, 12. The Quality of Kin Relations, 13. General Aspects, Appendix: References to Cases cited most frequently, Index
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