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Acknowledging the increasing diversity and complexity of families, this book proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding families and other relationships that both challenges and attempts to reconcile traditional and contemporary approaches. Using the notion of ‘boundaries’, the book shifts thinking from ‘families as entities’ to ‘families as relationship processes’. Emphasising the processes that underlie boundary construction and reconstruction suggests that the key to understanding family life is the process of relationship formation. The ideas of entity, boundary, margins and hyb ... More
Keywords: families, boundaries, family life, entity, boundary, margins, hybridity, society
Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9781861346438 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861346438.001.0001 |
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