The Family, Politics, and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)

The Family, Politics, and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
Title The Family, Politics, and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory) PDF eBook
Author D.H.J. Morgan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 331
Release 2014-08-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317651901

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This book explores and clarifies all the major issues and developments within ‘family theorising’. It covers the extraordinary growth and variety of approaches to the family over the last decade, the most significant being the impact of feminism and the professional and state intervention into the family through marital and family therapy. The author focuses on the growth of family counselling, giving a detailed analysis of the Home Office publication, Marriage Matters. He looks at the rapid growth of historical studies of the family, European theoretical developments, the work of the Rapoports, the role of systems theorising, and phenomenological and critical approaches to the family. He shows the relevance of family theorising for contemporary debates about the state of marriage and the family, and argues for the centrality of ‘family themes’ within wider sociological debates.

The Family, Politics and Social Theory

The Family, Politics and Social Theory
Title The Family, Politics and Social Theory PDF eBook
Author D. H. J. Morgan
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 2014-08-04
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9781138782419

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This book explores and clarifies all the major issues and developments within 'family theorising'. It covers the extraordinary growth and variety of approaches to the family over the last decade, the most significant being the impact of feminism and the professional and state intervention into the family through marital and family therapy. The author focuses on the growth of family counselling, giving a detailed analysis of the Home Office publication, Marriage Matters. He looks at the rapid growth of historical studies of the family, European theoretical developments, the work of the Rapoports, the role of systems theorising, and phenomenological and critical approaches to the family. He shows the relevance of family theorising for contemporary debates about the state of marriage and the family, and argues for the centrality of 'family themes' within wider sociological debates.

The Family, Politics, and Social Theory

The Family, Politics, and Social Theory
Title The Family, Politics, and Social Theory PDF eBook
Author D. H. J. Morgan
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre
ISBN 9780415727310

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Social Theory and the Family (RLE Social Theory)

Social Theory and the Family (RLE Social Theory)
Title Social Theory and the Family (RLE Social Theory) PDF eBook
Author D.H.J. Morgan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 436
Release 2014-08-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317651057

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An experienced teacher of courses on the sociology of the family, D.H.J. Morgan frequently encounters a gulf between ‘the family’ as it is often treated in sociological texts and ‘the family’ as it is usually experienced. In this book he provides an extremely valuable bridge between the two by presenting an encounter between some of the mainstream theoretical approaches and concerns in the sociology of the family and what he terms as ‘critical’ perspectives on the family. This is the first British book on a basic social institution that takes into account the literature outside the mainstream of sociological analysis that deals with the subject. The first half examines the varieties of functional theorizing embedded in many texts, the over-concern with the question of kinship in modern society and the treatment of the family as a ‘success story’. In the second half Dr Morgan presents a critical account of some of the counter-theories: those derived from the radical feminist movement, the existential psycho-analytical approach associated with Laing, and the critical analyses of sex in an advanced capitalist society. A final chapter suggests some themes and orientations, derived from this encounter of theoretical approaches and modern perspectives, which can be usefully developed.

R.D. Laing: His Work and its Relevance for Sociology (RLE Social Theory)

R.D. Laing: His Work and its Relevance for Sociology (RLE Social Theory)
Title R.D. Laing: His Work and its Relevance for Sociology (RLE Social Theory) PDF eBook
Author Martin Howarth-Williams
Publisher Routledge
Pages 230
Release 2014-08-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317651243

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This study, by a sociologist, provides the most rigorous and comprehensive review to appear so far of R. D. Laing's work and theoretical development. Martin Howarth-Williams considers that Laing's insights into such controversial issues as the divided self and the politics of the family are of an importance that transcends their basis in clinical psychiatry and that they have a special significance for sociology. Using the Progressive/Regressive Method of Jean-Paul Sartre, the author illuminates the internal coherence of Laing's aims through the various stages of his work and shows how his ideas are shaped by consistent philosophic presuppositions and influences underlying his work. To give as complete an account as possible of Laing's interests and to relate them to the broad stream of his thought, the author explores Laing's involvement in other non-psychiatric realms – especially politics, religion and eastern mysticism. Material has been secured from a wide variety of recent sources which include interviews, films, TV appearances and the author's own personal recollections of informal talks given by Laing. In the final section of the book Martin Howarth-Williams isolates the concept of 'Intelligibility', which he demonstrates to be the unifying theme central to Laing's theory and shows how this can be used as the basis for a critique of recent developments in sociological theory as well as a starting point towards a genuinely dialectical sociology.

The Personal and the Political (RLE Social Theory)

The Personal and the Political (RLE Social Theory)
Title The Personal and the Political (RLE Social Theory) PDF eBook
Author Paul Halmos
Publisher Routledge
Pages 255
Release 2014-08-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317651448

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Are human misery, poverty and despair a result of personal inadequacy or social injustice? Therefore is the solution to these problems psychotherapy or political action? In one of the most important books on social work for a decade, Paul Halmos tries to resolve a dilemma which many social workers experience acutely – the conflict between a desire to help those in need and a fear that, by doing so, they merely support a political system which should, itself, be changed. Such a dilemma was highlighted during the sixties when 'casework' and personal counselling became discredited by the 'rediscovery' of widespread poverty and inequality in western society. To many the only solution seemed to be urgent and radical political action. For Professor Halmos the realities are more complex – an exclusive preoccupation with either personal or political solutions is unlikely to prove fruitful – what is needed is a dual sensitivity and balance. Yet for the author it is the political solution which carries within it the greater risk and he warns of the dangers inherent in the total politicization of social concerns. He argues that social action can become political action and ultimately political control.

Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory)

Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory)
Title Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory) PDF eBook
Author Anthony Giddens
Publisher Routledge
Pages 488
Release 2014-08-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317650638

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The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.