Family and the State of Theory - Couverture souple

Cheal, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802069282 ISBN 13 : 9780802069283

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1991

Synopsis

Family studies play an increasintyy important role in contemporary sociology. David Cheal provides an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of modern socological theories about family life. While recognizing that these theories are both diverse and fragmented, he argues that such divisions are a positive and integral aspect of studying contemporary family theory.

Cheal takes a broad comparitive approach to the theories analysed, using empirical examples from North America, Europe, and Australia, and examining how old and new approaches interact with one another. He argues that it is possible to make sense of a contemporary family theory by analysing its divisions as the result of different experiences of modernity. These experiences lie along three axes: first, the opposition between social modernism and its anti-modernist critics; second, the ideological effects of contraditions within modernity itself, and third, the emerging differene between modernist idealism and post-modernist scepticism. Another major theme of the book is the profound impact of feminism on contemporary family studies, and how this has been the catalyst for so much rethinking of the subject in recent years.

By comparing a wide range of theories in this way and providing a conceptual framework to explain and encourage theoretical pluralism, David Cheal has produced a major new work for students and researchers of family sociology and social theory worldwide.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Cheal is Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802069282
• ISBN 13: 9780802069283
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 213
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• Personne responsable: non disponible