Understanding the Family

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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. The book draws on a range of theoretical perspectives from sociology, social policy and psychology to examine the assumptions about "the family" that are embedded in social policy, law and political discourse. It reveals that such assumptions fail to recognize the marked diversity of family forms in contemporary society, and ignore the complex myriad ways in which family life is experienced.

Author Biography:

John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal. Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.

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August 5th, 1999

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Tertiary Education (US: College)

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Edited by Allan Douglas Cochrane
Edited by John Muncie
Edited by Margaret Wetherell
Edited by Mary Langan
Edited by Rudi Dallos

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Pages

336

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Published in Association with the Open University

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170x242x17

ISBN-13

9780761953074

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2482705

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