SOURCEBOOK OF FAMILY THEORIES AND METHODS by Pauline Boss (Editor), W. J. Doherty (Editor), Ralph LaRossa (Editor) ( 9780306442643 )

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Title:

SOURCEBOOK OF FAMILY THEORIES AND METHODS
A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH

By:

Pauline Boss (Editor), W. J. Doherty (Editor), Ralph LaRossa (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0306442647

ISBN 13:

9780306442643

Publisher:

SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA

Edition:

1993 ed.

Pages:

748

Description:

This book traces the development of various family theories and methods within the context of the social values, technological changes, and political events of the twentieth century. Multicultural dimensions are emphasized throughout.

Synopsis:

Origins We call this book on theoretical orientations and methodological strategies in family studies a sourcebook because it details the social and personal roots (i.e., sources) from which these orientations and strategies flow. Thus, an appropriate way to preface this book is to talk first of its roots, its beginnings. In the mid 1980s there emerged in some quarters the sense that it was time for family studies to take stock of itself. A goal was thus set to write a book that, like Janus, would face both backward and forward a book that would give readers both a perspec tive on the past and a map for the future. There were precedents for such a project: The Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Harold Christensen and published in 1964; the two Contemporary Theories about theFamily volumes edited by Wesley Burr, Reuben Hill, F. Ivan Nye, and Ira Reiss, published in 1979; and the Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Marvin Sussman and Suzanne Steinmetz, then in production.

Illustrations:

XXVI, 748 p.

Publication:

Imprint:

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers

Returns:

Non-returnable

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