1st Edition

Researching Families and Communities Social and Generational Change

Edited By Rosalind Edwards Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction - Rosalind Edwards  2. Thinking about families and communities over time - Graham Crow  3. Are community studies still ‘good to think with’? - David H.J. Morgan  4. Rewriting sexuality and history - Jeffrey Weeks  5. Families in Black and minority ethnic communities and social capital: past and continuing false prophesies in social studies - Harry Goulbourne  6. Secondary analysis in investigating family change: exploring substantive and conceptual questions - Val Gillies  7. Recycling the evidence: different approaches to the reanalysis of elite life histories - Joanna Bornat and Gail Wilson  8. The family and social change revisited - Nickie Charles, Charlotte Davies and Chris Harris  9. Capturing locality change: the family and community life of older people - Chris Phillipson  10. The UK Millennium Cohort Study: the circumstances of early motherhood - Denise Hawkes  11. Using longitudinal data to examine living alone in England and Wales: 1971-2001 - Malcolm Williams, Moira Maconachie, Lawrence Ware, Joan Chandler and Brian Dodgeon  12. From Educational Priority Areas to area-based interventions: community, neighbourhood and preschool - Teresa Smith

Biography

Rosalind Edwards is Professor in Social Policy and Director of the Families & Social Capital Research Group at London South Bank University. She has researched and published widely in the field of family studies.