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We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change.
This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today's societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences on diverse platforms.
Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action.
Family Change and Lifecourse Development: Social Transformations on Intimate Frontiers
Family Change and Lifecourse Development: Social Transformations on Intimate Frontiers
Introduction
Sociology Today: Social Transformations in a Globalizing World, the title of this volume, invites contemplation of social change and sociological challenge. Perhaps in no social arena is change, and the stake in change, as deep and perplexing as on intimate frontiers. This is a strong assertion, particularly given the massive social changes over the proximate past in polities, economic systems, religion, population, health, gender and technologies. Yet, as we shall see in this chapter, family change and the transformation of sociological knowledge and lenses about families, have been nothing short of monumental. Sociological research and theory on families has been transformed by rapidly evolving changes in families as well as by growing recognition of the partiality (both incomplete and ...
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