Negotiating Family ResponsibilitiesNegotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight into contemporary family life, particularly kin relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that the real meaning of 'family' has shrunk to the nuclear family household, there is considerable evidence to suggest that relationships with the wider kin group remain an important part of most people's lives. Based on the findings of a major study of kinship, and including lively verbatim accounts of conversations with family members concepts of responsibility and obligation within family life are examined and the authors expand theories on the nature of assistance within families and argue that it is negotiated over time rather than given automatically. |
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... give to eachother? Or are we really lookingata pattern ofmutual aidwhich could justas easily grow up between twofriends?They happen to becousins, but thismay be of littlerelevanceto understanding what is going on between them. Evenin ...
... give to eachother? Or are we really lookingata pattern ofmutual aidwhich could justas easily grow up between twofriends?They happen to becousins, but thismay be of littlerelevanceto understanding what is going on between them. Evenin ...
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... give assistancewhen itis needed(Finch,1989). Itis the conceptofthe moral characterof kinship translated into social policy andthelaw. The abolitionof the Poor Law has not completely removed such thinking. Indeed many peoplehave argued ...
... give assistancewhen itis needed(Finch,1989). Itis the conceptofthe moral characterof kinship translated into social policy andthelaw. The abolitionof the Poor Law has not completely removed such thinking. Indeed many peoplehave argued ...
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... give us a rich data set.In the survey we were aimingto find out whether,in Britainofthe 1980s,we could identifyanykind of consensus about family obligations and responsibilities.Do people have a clear sense about what constitute ...
... give us a rich data set.In the survey we were aimingto find out whether,in Britainofthe 1980s,we could identifyanykind of consensus about family obligations and responsibilities.Do people have a clear sense about what constitute ...
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... give relatives practical and personal support thanare men (Green, 1988; Arber and Gilbert, 1989). However, it seems from our survey that the explanation of this doesnot lie at thelevel of publicly acknowledged norms. Women andmen ...
... give relatives practical and personal support thanare men (Green, 1988; Arber and Gilbert, 1989). However, it seems from our survey that the explanation of this doesnot lie at thelevel of publicly acknowledged norms. Women andmen ...
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... give someone accommodation would be timelimited. In questions about caring for someone who cannot fully look after themselves, our respondents weremorelikely toaccord responsibility to relatives ifthe assistance needed was temporary,or ...
... give someone accommodation would be timelimited. In questions about caring for someone who cannot fully look after themselves, our respondents weremorelikely toaccord responsibility to relatives ifthe assistance needed was temporary,or ...
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Negotiating Family Responsibilities Janet Finch,Professor Janet V Finch,Jennifer Mason Limited preview - 2003 |
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