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Title

The psychosocial interior of the family / Gerald Handel and Gail G. Whitchurch, editors.

Publication

New York : Aldine De Gruyter, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Handel, Gerald
• Whitchurch, Gail G.

Description

xxx, 674 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This long-awaited fourth edition has the same goal as the preceding editions: to understand families in terms of the kinds of interaction through which family life is constructed. The changes in the family as an institution have influenced these processes, just as they have influenced the ways we understand and write about them. But even in these "postmodern" circumstances, an underlying premise of the volume is that two partners establish a family because they have selected each other as distinctively meaningful to one another. They will affirm, modify, elaborate, or retreat from various aspects of the relationship through interaction over time and in changing circumstances." "This volume contains the best available interdisciplinary work on the social psychology of the family. More than half of the selections are new to this edition, which incorporates a variety of theoretical and research perspectives that provide the reader with a range of authoritative and up-to-date sources on the family and interpersonal relations. The newer forms of family organization that have emerged in the more recent literature - specifically, single-parent families, stepfamilies, and families of gay and lesbian domestic partners - are included. Authors have been drawn from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, communication, family studies, human development, psychology, anthropology, and social work."--Jacket.

Subject

• Families
• Social psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction to the Fourth Edition / Gerald Handel and Gail G. Whitchurch -- Introduction to the First Edition, 1967 / Gerald Handel -- 1. The Family as a Psychosocial Organization / Robert D. Hess and Gerald Handel -- 2. Marriage and the Construction of Reality: An Exercise in the Microsociology of Knowledge / Peter Berger and Hansfried Kellner -- 3. Marriage and the Construction of Reality: Then and Now / Norbert F. Wiley -- 4. Using Qualitative Methods to Study Families / Kerry J. Daly -- 5. Qualitative Study of Whole Families in a Time of Great Change / Gerald Handel -- 6. Family Research: A Case for Interviewing Couples / Linda A. Bennett and Katherine McAvity -- 7. Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Family Research / Ralph LaRossa, Linda A. Bennett and Richard J. Gelles.
• 8. The Three Phases of Systemic Maturation / Peter Steinglass, Linda A. Bennett, Steven J. Wolin and David Reiss -- 9. Family Boundary Ambiguity: Perceptions of Adult Stepfamily Members / Kay Pasley -- 10. Challenging Boundaries: An Adolescent in a Homosexual Family / Joellyn L. Ross -- 11. An Anthropological Approach to Family Studies / Oscar Lewis -- 12. Family Ecologies of Ethnic Minority Children / Algea O. Harrison, Melvin N. Wilson, Charles J. Pine, Samuel Q. Chan and Raymond Buriel -- 13. Determinants of Family Culture: Effects on Fatherhood / Rudy Ray Seward -- 14. The Appropriation of the Parent Role through Communication during the Transition of Parenthood / Glen H. Stamp.
• 15. The Dialectic of Marital and Parental Relationships within Stepfamily / Kenneth N. Cissna, Dennis E. Cox and Arthur P. Bochner -- 16. Television and Family Interaction / Alison Alexander -- 17. Constructing the Family / Marjorie L. DeVault -- 18. The Work of Love / Marcia Millman -- 19. Women, Work, and the Family: Changing Gender Roles and Psychological Well-Being / Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky -- 20. Power in the Family / Hilary M. Lips -- 21. Reconstructing the Family / Hester Eisenstein -- 22. Making Family under a Shiftwork Schedule: Air Force Security Guards and Their Wives / Rosanna Hertz and Joy Charlton -- 23. Marital Conflict over Intimacy / Francesca M. Cancian.
• 24. Stages in the Infant's Separation from the Mother / Margaret S. Mahler, Fred Pine and Anni Bergman -- 25. Dual Parenting and the Duel of Intimacy / Diane Ehrensaft -- 26. Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in the Adolescent Separation Drama / Helm Stierlin -- 27. Central Issues in the Construction of Sibling Relationships / Gerald Handel -- 28. Building Gay Families / Kath Weston -- 29. Coping with Family Transitions: Winners, Losers, and Survivors / E. Mavis Hetherington -- 30. The Downwardly Mobile Family / Katherine S. Newman -- 31. Sex Codes and Family Life Among Northton's Youth / Elijah Anderson -- 32. A Different Kind of Parenting / Robert S. Weiss -- 33. Backward Toward the Postmodern Family: Reflections on Gender, Kinship, and Class in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey.

ISBN

• 0202304930 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0202304949 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94018176^

OCLC

30508174

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library