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Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on family, parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties.

A Sociology of Family Life queries assumptions about a disintegration of the family by revealing a remarkable persistence of commitment and reciprocity across cultures, within new as well as traditional family forms. Yet, while new kinds of intimate relationships such as friends as family and LGBTQ+ intimacies become commonplace, such personal relationships can still be difficult to negotiate in the face of wider structural norms. With a focus on factors such as class, gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality, this new edition highlights inequalities that influence and curb families and personal life transnationally. Alongside substantial new material on cultural and digital transformations, the book features extensive updates on issues ranging from demography, migration, ageing and government policies to reproductive technologies, employment and care.

With a global focus, and blending theory with real-life examples, this insightful and engaging book will remain indispensable to students across the social sciences.

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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Preface and Acknowledgements - photo 1
Table of Contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Preface and Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
    1. Themes and issues
    2. Organization of the book
    3. Notes
  5. 1 Traditional Approaches to the Family
    1. Late nineteenth-century sociological perspectives
    2. Engels: family, private property and the state
    3. The twentieth-century functional family
    4. Companionate marriage
    5. Community and kinship studies
    6. Race and ethnicity in family studies
    7. Feminism and families
    8. Conclusions
    9. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  6. 2 Individualization, Intimacy and Family Life
    1. Individualization and changing families
    2. Critiques of the concept of individualization
    3. Doing and displaying families
    4. Non-traditional family relationships
    5. Same-sex intimacies and families of choice
    6. Black and minority ethnic kinship ties
    7. Conclusions
    8. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  7. 3 Parenting Practices and Values
    1. Changing parenthood and parenting
    2. Morality and motherhood
    3. Fatherhood: traditional and new models
    4. Fatherhood after divorce
    5. Domestic violence in families with children
    6. Parenting among minority ethnic groups
    7. Parenting in LGBTQ+ families
    8. Conclusions
    9. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  8. 4 The Changing Nature of Childhood
    1. Changing ideas about childhood
    2. Childrens socialization and agency
    3. Children and divorced families
    4. Childhood, social inequalities and consumption
    5. Children, digital media and the home
    6. The privatization of childhood
    7. Conclusions
    8. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
    9. Notes
  9. 5 Families and Ageing Societies
    1. Changing dynamics in ageing and family life
    2. Older people and family support
    3. Gender differences among older people
    4. Same-sex relationships among older people
    5. Globalization, old age and kinship in Southeast and East Asian communities
    6. Conclusions
    7. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  10. 6 Globalization, Migration and Intimate Relations
    1. Gendered migration patterns
    2. Globalization, migration and family care
    3. Marriage strategies and mobility
    4. Commercially negotiated marriage
    5. Maintaining cultural traditions in diasporic settings
    6. Transnational mail-order brides
    7. Undocumented migrant families
    8. Conclusions
    9. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  11. 7 Families, Fertility and Populations
    1. Fertility policies from a global perspective
    2. The case of Japan: a low-fertility industrialized country
    3. Romanias pro-natalist policy under Ceauescu
    4. Indias preference for sons
    5. Chinas one-child policy
    6. Conclusions
    7. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  12. 8 Families and New Reproductive Technologies
    1. Assisted conception and relatedness
    2. Approaches to new reproductive technologies
    3. Donor insemination and the regulation of families
    4. Infertility treatment from a global perspective: the South Asian diaspora
    5. Donor technologies in the Muslim Middle East
    6. Commercial surrogacy in India
    7. Conclusions
    8. Questions for Reflection and Discussion
    9. Notes
  13. 9 New Directions: The Politics of Family, Intimacy and Personal Life
    1. The politics of family values
    2. The politics of family, race and nation
    3. Black Lives Matter and extended family bonds
    4. Global and economic dimensions of intimacy, family and caregiving
    5. New intimacies
    6. Friends and family
    7. Personal life
    8. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index
  16. End User License Agreement
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A Sociology of Family Life
Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations
2nd Edition
DEBORAH CHAMBERS & PABLO GRACIA
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Copyright Page
Copyright Deborah Chambers & Pablo Gracia 2022
The right of Deborah Chambers & Pablo Gracia to be identified as Authors of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First edition published in 2012 by Polity Press
This second edition first published in 2022 by Polity Press
Polity Press
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All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.
ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4135-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4136-2 (pb)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021939310
by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL
The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.
Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition.
For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com
Preface and Acknowledgements
This second edition of the key text A Sociology of Family Life forms an authoritative guide to sociological debates about family life, intimacies and personal relationships. The book provides a topical and comprehensive guide to key sociological debates and empirical research on personal and family life. It draws together, in an accessible form, some of the most significant concepts, approaches and events that have contributed to sociological research on family life and intimacies. This edition has been revised throughout. It could not have happened without Pablo Gracias superb co-authorship.
This new edition includes:
  • revised and updated chapters
  • coverage of recent development in the field
  • coverage of pertinent new movements, debates and events
  • an extensive updated set of references
  • a set of questions for reflection and discussion at the ends of chapters.
We extend our thanks to the following:
  • our respective universities, Newcastle University and Trinity College Dublin, for their supportive research environments
  • Jonathan Skerrett, commissioning editor at Polity for his excellent guidance in facilitating the production of this second edition and, most importantly, for inviting Pablo Gracia to collaborate in the project
  • San Lennon for his excellent contribution as research assistant in conducting an exhaustive literature review, editing references and making relevant suggestions for the new content of the book
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