Research Catalog

Title

Researching intimacy in families / Jacqui Gabb.

Author

Gabb, Jacqui, 1963-

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Details

Description

x, 211 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Researching Intimacy of Families introduces and invigorates understandings of intimacy in family relationships. It offers an incisive engagement with the sociology of intimacy and the methods needed to research families, children and personal life. Using original data the book opens out the theoretical debate on intimacy and illustrates the potential of qualitative mixed-methods in capturing the richness and complexity of family life. Jacqui Gabb brings to life methodology teaching through extensive illustrations of methods in the context of families and childhood research, including innovatory methods and approaches designed and piloted by the author."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life

Uniform Title

Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.

Subject

• Intimacy (Psychology)
• Families > Psychological aspects
• Intimitet
• Familjer > psykologiska aspekter

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-206) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Structure and outline -- Behind closed doors : the project and empirical data -- Troubling terminology -- Researching families and childhood -- Family studies -- Childhood research -- Researching sensitive topics -- Ethical issues in families research -- Methodological approaches and family research methods -- National surveys and longitudinal research -- Longitudinal research and studies of lifecourse -- Narrative inquiry and auto/biographical approaches -- Qualitative research -- Framing research and analysing data -- Conceptualisations of intimacy -- Intimacy and affective function -- The detraditionalisation of intimacy -- Embodied intimacy -- Intimate citizenship -- Mapping intimacy in families -- Affective transformations -- The structuring of affective ties -- Intimate practices -- The affect of methods -- Representing family life -- Biographical narrative interviews -- Public scenarios and private lives -- Conclusion -- Future research -- Mixing methods : a family portrait -- The boundaries of intimacy -- Empirical complexities and conflicting narratives.

ISBN

• 0230527221
• 9780230527225
• 9780230227668
• 023022766X

LCCN

• 2008015929
• 9780230527225

OCLC

• ocn221962140
• 221962140
• SCSB-1491681

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library