Author : Jennifer A. Reich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0415947278
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : John McKnight
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 160509627X
" We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community. This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all. "
Author : Abbye E. Meyer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496837606
Uses of disability in literature are often problematic and harmful to disabled people. This is also true, of course, in children’s and young adult literature, but interestingly, when disability is paired and confused with adolescence in narratives, compelling, complex arcs often arise. In From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families: The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives, author Abbye E. Meyer examines different ways authors use and portray disability in literature. She demonstrates how narratives about and for young adults differ from the norm. With a distinctive young adult voice based in disability, these narratives allow for readings that conflate and complicate both adolescence and disability. Throughout, Meyer examines common representations of disability and more importantly, the ways that young adult narratives expose these tropes and explicitly challenge harmful messages they might otherwise reinforce. She illustrates how two-dimensional characters allow literary metaphors to work, while forcing texts to ignore reality and reinforce the assumption that disability is a problem to be fixed. She sifts the freak characters, often marked as disabled, and she reclaims the derided genre of problem novels arguing they empower disabled characters and introduce the goals of disability-rights movements. The analysis offered expands to include narratives in other media: nonfiction essays and memoirs, songs, television series, films, and digital narratives. These contemporary works, affected by digital media, combine elements of literary criticism, narrative expression, disability theory, and political activism to create and represent the solidarity of family-like communities.
Author : Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415049115
"Gender and Power in Families" represents the first book devoted to British work on the subject of the relationship between gender and power in families. It contains both a conceptual discussion of the subject and a review of clinical practice. The contributors challenge the hidden assumption that there is equality between men and women and place the family into its wider social context, bringing to the practice of family therapy the fact that inequality exists in the domestic domain. The book will provide an impetus for making the issues of gender and power central to family therapy and practice.
Author : Kerry Daly
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 1996-09-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0803973411
What is family time? What value do we place on it? How many families today have time to be families? How do families view, use and seek to control time, and how successful are they at it? The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways: families changing through history; families experiencing the passage of time as they age over the life course; and families negotiating time for being together. Synthesizing these different concepts into a broad theory of how families understand time, Kerry J Daly examines time as a pervasive influence in the changing experiential world of families.
Author : Betty Farrell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1993-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791415948
This book maps the development of a regional elite and its persistence as an economic upper class through the nineteenth century. Farrells study traces the kinship networks and overlapping business ties of the most economically prominent Brahmin families from the beginning of industrialization in the 1820s to the early twentieth century. Archival sources such as genealogies, family papers, and business records are used to address two issues of concern to those who study social stratification and the structure of power in industrializing societies: in what ways have traditional forms of social organization, such as kinship, been responsive to the social and economic changes brought by industrialization; and how active a role did an early economic elite play in shaping the direction of social change and in preserving its own group power and privilege over time.
Author : Karen V. Hansen
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781566395908
Attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. This book explores the ways in which family life is gendered and reflects on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time.
Author : Christopher R. Agnew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1107192617
An outline of how power, an inherent feature of social interactions, operates and affects close relationships.
Author : Ronald E. Cromwell
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Meg Wilkes Karraker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1136505857
Noted for its interdisciplinary approach to family studies, Families with Futures provides an engaging, contemporary look at the discipline's theories, methods, essential topics, and career opportunities. Featuring strong coverage of theories and methods, readers explore family concepts and processes through a positive prism. Concepts are brought to life through striking examples from everyday family life and cutting-edge scholarship. Throughout, families are viewed as challenged but resilient. Each chapter opens with a preview of the chapter content and concludes with key terms and varied learning activities that promote critical thinking. The activities include provocative questions and exercises, projects, and interactive web activities. Boxes feature authentic voices from scholars and practitioners (including CFLEs) from a variety of disciplines including family studies, sociology, psychology, and more. These boxes provide a firsthand look at what it is like to work in the field. The book concludes with a glossary defining each chapter’s boldfaced key terms. Updated throughout, the new edition features new coverage of: The latest family theories including feminist theory and postmodernism Immigrant and transnational families in the 21st century Physiology, psychology, and sociology of intimacy and sexuality Effects of recent health and other policy decisions on families Care giving in families, especially in later life Family finances, with an emphasis on the recent economic downturns Career opportunities in family studies. The new Instructor’s Resource website features test questions, PowerPoint slides, chapter outlines, news bulletins of current events, hotlinks to helpful tools such as the NCFR’s Ethical Principles and Guidelines, and more. This is an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses in family studies, family ecology, and family science offered in departments of family and consumer sciences, human development, psychology, and sociology.
