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This major study examines the increasing significance of
inheritance for life in ordinary families. It considers questions
of individual choice versus family responsibilities, the internal
dynamics of families, and broader implications for social change.
This book is intended for undergraduates and postgraduates on
courses in the sociology of the family, social policy, gender
studies and social anthropology, as well as students and
researchers within socio-legal studies and family law.
This major study examines the increasing significance of
inheritance for life in ordinary families. It considers questions
of individual choice versus family responsibilities, the internal
dynamics of families, and broader implications for social change.
This book is intended for undergraduates and postgraduates on
courses in the sociology of the family, social policy, gender
studies and social anthropology, as well as students and
researchers within socio-legal studies and family law.
Negotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight
into contemporary family life, particularly kin relationships
outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that the real
meaning of 'family' has shrunk to the nuclear family household,
there is considerable evidence to suggest that relationships with
the wider kin group remain an important part of most people's
lives. Based on the findings of a major study of kinship, and
including lively verbatim accounts of conversations with family
members concepts of responsibility and obligation within family
life are examined and the authors expand theories on the nature of
assistance within families and argue that it is negotiated over
time rather than given automatically.
For some time access to publicly provided services has been
shrinking and governments have been emphasizing the family as the
first line of support, but how far do such policies accord with
what people will provide for their relatives, and with contemporary
ideas about what it is proper to expect from family members? This
book examines patterns of support, both practical and financial,
between adult members of family and kin groups, and focuses upon
ideas about responsibility, duty and obligation within families and
how far these underpin the support actually given. This text
provides an insight into contemporary family life, particularly kin
relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe
that the real meaning of "family" has shrunk to the nuclear family
household, there is considerable evidence to suggest that
relationships with the wider kin group remain an important part of
most people's lives. Based on the findings of a major study of
kinship, and including lively verbatim accounts of conversations
with family members, concepts of responsibility and obligation
within family life are examined.
The third edition of this best-selling text guides students and
researchers through the process of doing qualitative research,
clearly explaining how different theoretical approaches inform what
you do in practice. The text bridges the gap between 'cookbook' and
more abstract approaches to qualitative research, by posing
'difficult questions' that researchers should be asking themselves
. The book invites researchers to engage in a creative and critical
practice in how they draw insights, interpret a range of types of
data and craft knowledge from qualitative research. Fully revised
and updated, with three new chapters, this edition: * Covers the
full research process, with new material on analysing and
interpreting data and research ethics * Engages with exciting new
developments in the field through challenging qualitative
researchers to be creative with how they research and with what
they find. * Examines the potential of qualitatively-led approaches
to mixed methods, and their implications for research design,
research practice and the production of convincing arguments. A
theoretically engaged, grounded approach to qualitative
researching, this remains the ideal text to guide students to
become thoughtful, creative and effective qualitative researchers.
Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale's book seeks to set out cutting-edge
developments in the field of social research and to encourage
students and researchers to consider ways of learning from
different approaches and perspectives in such a way as to make
their own research richer, more insightful and more rewarding.
Social Researching brings together a wide variety of research
methods - both qualitative and quantitative - to help students and
researchers to consider the relative benefits of adopting different
approaches for their own research work. The authors clearly
identify the most appropriate methods for different research
questions and also highlight areas where it might be fruitful to
compliment different methods with each other or exploit creative
tensions between them. The book is therefore a highly practical
guide which also seeks to draw readers outside their methodological
comfort zones. This book includes: - Critical coverage of issues in
research design; - Expert experience in many methodological fields;
- An overview of the many different ways to approach similar
research problems; - Coverage of the tensions between different
methodological approaches; - Examples of excellence in research
design and practice; - An examination of how to turn methodological
tensions into richer research practice. The methods covered include
highly innovative, 'cutting-edge' approaches and they are
demonstrated in terms of their transferability between the
different social sciences. This inter-disciplinary approach is
complimented by a wide range of strategically chosen examples which
demonstrate the authors' pragmatic and creative take on research
design.
Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale's book seeks to set out cutting-edge
developments in the field of social research and to encourage
students and researchers to consider ways of learning from
different approaches and perspectives in such a way as to make
their own research richer, more insightful and more rewarding.
Social Researching brings together a wide variety of research
methods - both qualitative and quantitative - to help students and
researchers to consider the relative benefits of adopting different
approaches for their own research work. The authors clearly
identify the most appropriate methods for different research
questions and also highlight areas where it might be fruitful to
compliment different methods with each other or exploit creative
tensions between them. The book is therefore a highly practical
guide which also seeks to draw readers outside their methodological
comfort zones. This book includes: - Critical coverage of issues in
research design; - Expert experience in many methodological fields;
- An overview of the many different ways to approach similar
research problems; - Coverage of the tensions between different
methodological approaches; - Examples of excellence in research
design and practice; - An examination of how to turn methodological
tensions into richer research practice. The methods covered include
highly innovative, 'cutting-edge' approaches and they are
demonstrated in terms of their transferability between the
different social sciences. This inter-disciplinary approach is
complimented by a wide range of strategically chosen examples which
demonstrate the authors' pragmatic and creative take on research
design.
In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most
enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped
American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second
half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on
Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not
increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness;
instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly
civilized animals they encountered in their daily lives.
Americans of diverse backgrounds, Mason shows, found it
attractive as well as politic to imagine themselves as most closely
connected to those creatures who shared humans' aptitude for
civilized life. And to the minds of many in this period, national
prosperity depended less on periodic exposure to untamed, wild
nature than it did on the proper care and keeping of such animals
within suburban and urban environments.
Combining literary analysis with cultural histories of
equestrianism, petkeeping, and the animal welfare movement,
Civilized Creatures offers new readings of works by Susan Warner,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles W.
Chesnutt. In each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding
contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential
for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural
power enacted in these texts.
The third edition of this best-selling text guides students and
researchers through the process of doing qualitative research,
clearly explaining how different theoretical approaches inform what
you do in practice. The text bridges the gap between 'cookbook' and
more abstract approaches to qualitative research, by posing
'difficult questions' that researchers should be asking themselves
. The book invites researchers to engage in a creative and critical
practice in how they draw insights, interpret a range of types of
data and craft knowledge from qualitative research. Fully revised
and updated, with three new chapters, this edition: * Covers the
full research process, with new material on analysing and
interpreting data and research ethics * Engages with exciting new
developments in the field through challenging qualitative
researchers to be creative with how they research and with what
they find. * Examines the potential of qualitatively-led approaches
to mixed methods, and their implications for research design,
research practice and the production of convincing arguments. A
theoretically engaged, grounded approach to qualitative
researching, this remains the ideal text to guide students to
become thoughtful, creative and effective qualitative researchers.
How we distribute our assets after death is no longer a question for a small wealthy section of society: increasing numbers of people must now decide how to structure wills and to bequeath money and possessions across generations: not only to family and kin but to charities and institutions also. This path-breaking study offers an empirical study of 800 English wills and uses the material to reflect upon what they tell us of contemporary family and kin relationships. It will be of great interest to lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and social historians.
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