Family Rhythms - The Changing Textures of Family Life in Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Jane Gray is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Maynooth University and Research Associate of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial AnalysisRuth Geraghty is Data Curator for the Children's Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland at the Centre for Effective ServicesDavid Ralph is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin Klappentext This text 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 Zusammenfassung This text 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 -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Families in the sociological imaginationPart I: Questioning the modern family1. The idea of the modern Family2. Beyond the modern family. Re-visioning family changePart II. Changing families across the life course3. Changing childhoods4. Early adulthood and family formation5. Working and parenting in the middle years6. New grandparents. Older people in the familyConclusion: Resilient families? Continuity and change in Irish family lifeAppendicesIndex

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• Authors: Ruth Geraghty, Geraghty Ruth, Jane Gray, Jane Geraghty Gray, Gray Jane, David Ralph, David Gray Ralph, Ralph David
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2016
• EAN: 9780719091520
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9152-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Ireland, Sociology: family & relationships, Society and culture: general, Sociology: family and relationships