Family and the state of theory
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Family and the state of theory
Harvester Wheatsheaf , University of Toronto Press, 1991
- Canada
- : pbk
- : pbk. Canada
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Bibliography: p. 167-196
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
David Cheal's text offers an up-to-date survey of modern sociological theories about family life. New critical approaches are contrasted with the major established approaches and their different modes of theorizing are compared, with the intention of encouraging the reader towards theoretical pluralism. Working from the basic approach of what Cheal calls "standard" sociological theory, the author then looks at other theories of the family which have challenged this concept, such as symbolic interactionism, exchange theory and the critical approaches associated with feminism and Marxism.
Table of Contents
- Family theory after the Big Bang
- progress and decline - modernism and anti-modernism
- system and liberation - dialects of modernity
- private and public - dialects of modernity
- the one and the many - modernity and post-modernity
- the instabilities of post-modern social theory.
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