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Informationen zum Autor John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal. Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action. Klappentext `Altogether an excellent collection for students of social policy, social care or social work, covering as it does both subjective and objective features of family life and the logics of inequality within which they are embedded' - Child and Family Social WorkRevised and updated, the Second Edition of this bestselling book presents an interdisciplinary account of how the family is constituted in the `public' and `private' spheres. Zusammenfassung An introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how "the family" is constituted in the public and private spheres! and outline the tensions that exist between the dominant assumptions of state and society and the lived realities and everyday experiences of family life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Public Definitions and Private Lives PART ONE: POLITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW Issues in the Study of `The Family¿ - John Muncie and Roger Sapsford Family Policy and Political Discourse - John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell Families and the Law - Hilary Land Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities - Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford PART TWO: INTERACTIONS AND IDENTITIES Constructing Family Life - Rudi Dallos Family Belief Systems Social Structure, Ideology and Family Dynamics - Margaret Wetherell The Case of Parenting The Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Life - Margaret Wetherell A Feminist Looks at the Family - Lynne Segal Endnote - Roger Sapsford Public and Private ...
