Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change

by Edwards; Rosalind

• ISBN13: 9780415427128
• ISBN10: 0415427126
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134090822
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-06-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about and research the nature of the present in relation to the past and vice versa? Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Changeexplores the concepts and perspectives that guide research and the methods used to explore change during the last half of the twentieth century and into the new millennium. It highlights the complexities of continuities alongside change, the importance of the perspectives that shape investigation, and the need to engage with situated data. This edited text includes contributions from experts in their field who: address these overarching trends explore the possibilities and practice of secondary analysis or replication studies, as well as longitudinal large scale data sets discuss varied aspects of family and community life, including sexuality, ethnicity, parenting resources, older people, intergenerational family life, solo living and many others. This book will appeal to academics and students interested in family and community across a range of social science disciplines, and to those in the social research field.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Thinking About Families and Communities Over Time	p. 11
Are Community Studies Still 'Good to Think With'?	p. 25
Rewriting Sexuality and History	p. 41
Families in Black and Minority Ethnic Communities and Social Capital: Past and Continuing False Prophesies in Social Studies	p. 59
Secondary Analysis in Investigating Family Change: Exploring Substantive and Conceptual Questions	p. 77
Recycling the Evidence: Different Approaches to the Reanalysis of Elite Life Histories	p. 95
The Family and Social Change Revisited	p. 114
Capturing Locality Change: The Family and Community Life of Older People	p. 133
The UK Millennium Cohort Study: The Circumstances of Early Motherhood	p. 147
Using Longitudinal Data to Examine Living Alone in England and Wales: 1971-2001	p. 164
From Educational Priority Areas to Area-Based Interventions: Community, Neighbourhood and Preschool	p. 181
Index	p. 204
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