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Ordering lives : family, work and welfare

Title
Ordering lives : family, work and welfare / edited by Gordon Hughes and Ross Fergusson.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Hughes, Gordon, 1952-
  • Fergusson, Ross.
  • Open University.
Description
viii, 177 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Summary
"Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this text examines their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in the UK from the 1950s to the beginning of the twenty-first century in a style which is both lively and academically rigorous. It shows how everyday life within these institutions is ordered by the exercise of power and resistance and charts how wider social and political changes have influenced these processes. These are pressing issues in contemporary life. Ordering lives: Family, Work and Welfare provides an innovative introduction to the use of theory in the social science to address these big issues and to explain social relations and institutional practices and structures. This is a key text for students starting out in sociology, social policy and social studies."--Jacket.
Series Statement
An introduction to the social sciences
Uniform Title
Introduction to the social sciences
Subject
  • Since 1945
  • Social structure > Great Britain
  • Social institutions > Great Britain
  • Social change > Great Britain
  • Social change
  • Social conditions
  • Social institutions
  • Social structure
  • Arbeit
  • Familie
  • Sozialhilfe
  • Familie
  • Arbeid
  • Verzorgingsstaat
  • Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945-
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Note
  • Previous edition: 2000.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Ross Fergusson and Gordon Hughes -- Power : its institutional guises (and disguises) / John Allen -- Family : from tradition to diversity? / Norma Sherratt and Gordon Hughes -- Work : from certainty to flexibility? / Graham Dawson -- Welfare : from security to responsibility? / Ross Fergusson, Gordon Hughes and Sarah Neal -- Afterword / Gordon Hughes and Ross Fergusson.
ISBN
  • 041532971X
  • 9780415329712
  • 0415329728
  • 9780415329729
  • 0203392183
  • 9780203392188
OCLC
  • ocm56440177
  • 56440177
  • SCSB-1363211
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library