Understanding Families
A Global Introduction
- Linda McKie - Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Durham University, UK
- Samantha Callan - Edinburgh University, UK
Families are at the core of our society. Our experience of them affects many aspects of our everyday lives shaping our expectations and future plans.
Written by field experts this clear, engaging book adopts a global perspective to usefully examine how modern families can be explored and understood. Packed with critical pedagogy, including case-studies, think points, key words and a glossary, it guides students through topics such as relationships, sexualities and paid and unpaid work.
The book also:
- Applies key social theories from classical sociological theory and contemporary analysis
- Examines best practice for researching families and family life
- Explores the role of government policies and practices
This comprehensive introduction to the study of families and relationships is a timely resource for students and lecturers working across the social sciences.
This is a very dense and intersting text that covers a lot of ground.
A comprehenensive text that makes essential reading for social work students
This text will prove useful to students from a range of disciplines on the BA Health & Community programme
I would recommend this book to students on introductory courses on families and relationships. It is a very clear introduction to those entirely new to this topic, and comprehensive enough to provide useful material to those with some familiarity.
brilliant book - this book is really helpful for students undertaking their practice placement
A useful text, helps the reader to develop understanding of similarities and differences in relation to the family across the world. The links between chapters and glossary are particularly helpful.
Easy to read text, which debates current thinking surrounding modern families. Case studies and questions for the reader throughout the text help traslate theory into practice.
This is a very useful book for people 1) needing to understand more about families and 2) who want to do research into families. It is an academic textbook as opposed to practitioner oriented handbook but I think could still be useful for trainee family therapists and for research into work with families.
