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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... in various ways in our research. In this connection we would like to thank Mohammed Atcha, Hilary Conway, Ram ... in:the Departmentof Applied Social Science, University of Lancaster; the Centre for Women's Studies, University of ...
... in various ways in our research. In this connection we would like to thank Mohammed Atcha, Hilary Conway, Ram ... in:the Departmentof Applied Social Science, University of Lancaster; the Centre for Women's Studies, University of ...
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... of working together! We have collaborated with each other in the fullest sense of the word inthis research project, and in the analysis and writing developed fromit. This product isvery much ajoint one,for whichwe jointly accept full ...
... of working together! We have collaborated with each other in the fullest sense of the word inthis research project, and in the analysis and writing developed fromit. This product isvery much ajoint one,for whichwe jointly accept full ...
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... the kind of questions with which we began the research whose findingswe discussinthisbook.They were questions which wewere interested inbefore weheard any of the stories which we have told here. Ourinterest in pursuing them stemmed from ...
... the kind of questions with which we began the research whose findingswe discussinthisbook.They were questions which wewere interested inbefore weheard any of the stories which we have told here. Ourinterest in pursuing them stemmed from ...
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... In searching for research of more recent origin on kin relationships and howthey are changing, one finds verylittle ... this book concern kin responsibilities and how they operatein practice. As we put it in discussingthe examples at the ...
... In searching for research of more recent origin on kin relationships and howthey are changing, one finds verylittle ... this book concern kin responsibilities and how they operatein practice. As we put it in discussingthe examples at the ...
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... to whom these apply,and in what circumstances; and whether concepts like 'followingrules' or 'using guidelines'make any senseofhow peoplerelate tokinin practice. Inposingquestions in this form,we are implying different possible ...
... to whom these apply,and in what circumstances; and whether concepts like 'followingrules' or 'using guidelines'make any senseofhow peoplerelate tokinin practice. Inposingquestions in this form,we are implying different possible ...
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Negotiating Family Responsibilities Janet Finch,Professor Janet V Finch,Jennifer Mason Limited preview - 2003 |
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