Family Obligations and Social Change

Finch discusses the nature of family life, especially concepts of duty, responsibility and obligation and how these factors operate in family and kin relationships.

List of contents

Support Between Kin - Who Gives What to Whom? Do Families Support Each Other More or Less than in the Past?
Contexts of Kin Support - Economy and Demography - Law and Social Policy
The Proper Thing to Do
Working it Out
Duty, Responsibility, Obligation - Distinctive Features of Family Life?

About the author

Dame Janet Valerie Finch DBE, DL, FAcSS is a British sociologist and academic administrator. She was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University, and has held a number of other public appointments in the UK.

Summary

A discussion of the nature of family life, especially the concepts of duty, responsibility and obligation. The author looks at political and popular debates in this area bringing together material from many disciplines within the social sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Finch, J Finch, Janet Finch, Janet (University of Lancaster) Finch, Professor Janet V. Finch, Richards
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.1991
• EAN: 9780745603247
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-0324-7
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 231 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Family Life Series; Family Life Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories