Family and Kinship in Modern Britain

by Christopher Turner

In the 1960s the family had been described as 'by far the most important primary group in society'. The primary concern of the sociologist was to understand the functioning of family life in any given society and to set his observations in the wider framework of the relation of kinship systems to social structures. In this study, originally published in 1969, Dr Turner's aim was to present a conceptual scheme for the analysis of family and kinship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032536985
• ISBN13: 9781032536989
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 118 Pages