Negotiating Family Responsibilities

List of contents

1. Understanding Family Responsibilities. 2. Balancing Responsibilities: Dependence and Independence. 3. Negotiating Commitments Over Time. 4. Making Legitimate Excuses. 5. Reputations and Moral Identitiesin the Negotiation of Family Responsibilities. 6. Conclusion. Appendices

About the author

Professor Janet V. Finch, Jennifer Mason

Summary

Based on findings of a major study of kinship, and including lively verbatim accounts of conversations with family members, provides a new insight into contemporary family life and kin relationships outside the nuclear family.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Finch, Janet D. Finch, Janet Finch Finch, Professor Janet V Finch, Jennifer Mason, Mason Jennifer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138467323
• ISBN: 978-1-138-46732-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues