Family

By Adrian Wilson

Book Overview

Adrian Wilson provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the family. The book opens with a chapter on family structure, looking at the family historically and in cross-cultural perspective. Following this is a review first of theoretical approaches to the family, including functionalist, feminist, Marxist and radical criticism, and second, how the family is studied sociologically. Chapters 4 and 5 look at the changing British family and British families today, and the concluding chapters examine family problems, for example, divorce, violence, one -parent families, and the family and the state.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041506564X
• ISBN13: 9780415065641
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"