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The Family and Industrial Society (Hardcover)
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The Family and Industrial Society (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Sociology
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Originally published in 1983, the origin of this book is to be
found in C. C. Harris's 'Changing conceptions of the relation
between family and societal form' (in Scase: Industrial Society:
Class, Cleavage and Control). In that article Harris attempted to
relate traditional research on the family to recent developments in
historical enquiry and Marxist scholarship. The aim of The Family
and Industrial Society is to explain the character of the
contemporary family by placing it in a wider historical and
theoretical perspective. It is therefore directed at the
undergraduate student for whom the 'sociology of the family', as a
topic, has for too long been relatively unrelated to those
contemporary developments in sociological thought and practice
which inform other substantive areas of sociological work. The late
C.C. Harris is perhaps best known for his best-selling introductory
text The Family: An Introduction, first published in 1969. This new
text was not, however, a straightforward replacement of an earlier
book by a more up-to-date volume. Far too much had happened in
sociology, in social studies and in family life itself, for a
simple updating to make any sense. The Family was primarily a
descriptive introduction, and was a presentation, albeit critical,
of an orthodoxy. While this new book retains an introductory
element based upon The Family's earlier chapters, the greater part
of it is exploratory and assumes a higher level of sophistication
and sociological understanding; it is also substantially longer. Dr
Harris was singularly well qualified to write a volume of this
kind. Not only had he conducted and was conducting empirical
research into the family, but his wide theoretical interests
rendered him uniquely well placed to contribute to the theoretical
development of his field. Few sociologists shared his familiarity
with both anthropological and historical work. He was thoroughly
familiar with the now unfashionable structural functional approach
of which he had always been critical, but was enthusiastic about
the potentialities of contemporary developments. The result is a
sophisticated text which combines instruction, criticism,
interpretation and exploration in one volume; which familiarises
the student with the fundamental work of the past (too often
neglected) and explores exciting new developments for the future.
It also includes the only general discussion of change in the
British family since the last edition of Fletcher's The Family and
Marriage in Britain.
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