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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

Table of Contents

Introduction: Families in the sociological imagination
Part I: Questioning the modern family
1. The idea of the modern Family
2. Beyond the modern family. Re-visioning family change
Part II. Changing families across the life course
3. Changing childhoods
4. Early adulthood and family formation
5. Working and parenting in the middle years
6. New grandparents. Older people in the family
Conclusion: Resilient families? Continuity and change in Irish family life
Appendices
Index

Family Rhythms The Changing Textures of Family

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    A Paperback / softback by Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty, David Ralph

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 7 March 2016
      ISBN-13 9780719091520
      978-0719091520
      ISBN-10 719091527
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      Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Families in the sociological imagination
      Part I: Questioning the modern family
      1. The idea of the modern Family
      2. Beyond the modern family. Re-visioning family change
      Part II. Changing families across the life course
      3. Changing childhoods
      4. Early adulthood and family formation
      5. Working and parenting in the middle years
      6. New grandparents. Older people in the family
      Conclusion: Resilient families? Continuity and change in Irish family life
      Appendices
      Index

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