Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415065641)

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.

Author: Adrian Wilson
ISBN-10: 041506564X
ISBN-13: 9780415065641
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/18/1985
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.33d