Gray / Geraghty / Ralph Family rhythms

The changing textures of family life in Ireland
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3168-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

This textbook draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Jane

Geraghty, Ruth

Ralph, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Families in the sociological imagination
Part I: Questioning the modern family
1. The idea of the modern Family
2. Beyond the modern family. Re-visioning family change
Part II. Changing families across the life course
3. Changing childhoods
4. Early adulthood and family formation
5. Working and parenting in the middle years
6. New grandparents. Older people in the family
Conclusion: Resilient families? Continuity and change in Irish family life
Appendices
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Gray is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Maynooth University and Research Associate of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis

Ruth Geraghty is Data Curator for the Children's Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland at the Centre for Effective Services

David Ralph is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin