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  • Family Troubles?

    Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People

    Edited by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper, Val Gillies ...
    As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the contested terrain between “normal” family troubles and troubled and troubling families. In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how “troubles” ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Making Families

    Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies ...
    This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen as evidence of such trends. In one of the first British in-depth sociological research studies for ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Mother's Intuition? (1994)

    Choosing Secondary Schools

    by Miriam David, Anne West, Jane Ribbens ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1994, Mother’s Intuition? examines the process of choosing secondary schools in two inner London boroughs. The research is based upon detailed interviews with parents as well as questionnaires filled in by pupils themselves. The authors address several important dimensions in the choosing process which had not been investigated by previous research. The book particularly focusses on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Understanding Family Meanings

    A Reflective Text

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle, Shelley Day Sclater ...
    Family Studies is a key area of policy, professional and personal debate. Perhaps precisely because of this, teaching texts have struggled with how to approach this area, which is both 'familiar' and also contentious and value laden. This innovative and reflective book deals with such dilemmas head-on, through its focus on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Key Concepts in Family Studies

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis."- David H J Morgan, University of Manchester"Written in an intelligent, engaging, and accessible manner by two leading and highly ... Read more

    $65.69 USD