Researching families and communities [ social and generational change

Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change explores the concepts and perspectives that guide research and the methods used to explore change during the last half of the 20th century and into the new millennium. It highlights the complexities of continuities alongside change...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Rosalind (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York : Routledge , 2008
Series:Relationships and resources
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Thinking about families and communities over time
  • 3. Are community studies still 'good to think with'?
  • 4. Rewriting sexuality and history
  • 5. Families in black and minority ethnic communities and social capital: Past and continuing false prophecies in social studies
  • 6. Secondary analysis in investigating family change: Exploring substantive and conceptual questions
  • 7. Recycling the evidence: Different approaches to the re-analysis of elite life histories
  • 8. The family and social change revisited
  • 9. Capturing locality change: The family and community life of older people
  • 10. The UK Millennium Cohort Study: The circumstances of early motherhood
  • 11. Using longitudinal data to examine living alone in England and Wales: 1971 to 2001
  • 12. From educational priority areas to area-based interventions: Community, neighbourhood, and preschool