Rudi Dallos / Eugene McLaughlin (eds.)

Social Problems and the Family

Herausgeber: Dallos, Rudi; Mclaughlin, Eugene

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines how `the family' is constituted both in explanations of social problems and in modes of state intervention. The contributors consider some of the most controversial social policy issues in Britain today: domestic violence; child abuse; old age; mental health; juvenile delinquency; and poverty and homelessness.In examining these social problems, the contributors address key definitional issues, assess traditional and alternative theoretical perspectives and survey different modes of intervention. They show just how pervasive and complex the state regulation of family life is in contemporary society. It is a Course Book for The Open University course D311 Family Life and Social Policy.

Produktdetails

• Published in association with The Open University
• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780803988378
• ISBN-10: 0803988370
• Artikelnr.: 23195627

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Domestic Violence
Sally Foreman and Rudi Dallos The Abuse of Children
Esther Saraga Mental Health
Rudi Dallos and David Boswell Old Age
John Baldock Juvenile Delinquency
Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie The Problem of Poverty
Allan Cochrane Homelessness
Richard Skellington

Rezensionen

`This clearly written and attractively presented book provides a succinct overview of contemporary social problems, with relevance well beyond the UK situation' - Family Matters