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  • MANAGING MOTHERS
    JULIA BRANNEN / PETER MOSS
    First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative inside story of the lives of parents, and particularly mothers, who return to work after the birth of a first child. It is based on a study of couples who have combined the transition to parenthood with two full-time jobs in the labour market. The authors provide...

    $860.00

  • GIVE AND TAKE IN FAMILIES
    JULIA BRANNEN
    Originally published in 1987, now with a new preface, the focus of this book is the distribution of material resources, notably money, work, care and food, within and between households. Hitherto, social policy research had tended to roll households and families into one and consider them as ‘private’ spheres which only connected with society via the male head of household – th...

    $840.00

  • MARRIAGES IN TROUBLE
    JULIA BRANNEN / JEAN COLLARD
    In the early 1980s it was fashionable to suggest that marriage as an institution was in trouble, but there were widely differing views as to whether or not this was really so. Originally published in 1982, this title started as a small-scale exploratory study of clients with marital problems and how they came to seek help. Using a sociological approach to marriage, the authors ...

    $840.00

  • MIXING METHODS: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
    JULIA BRANNEN
    This book focuses on a key issue in the methodology of the social and behavioural sciences: the mixing of different research methods. The extent to which qualitative and quantitative research differ from one another has long been a subject of debate. Although many methodologists have concluded that the two approaches are not mutually exclusive, there are few books on either th...

    $2,540.00

  • CHILDREN IN FAMILIES
    JULIA BRANNEN / MARGARET O'BRIEN
    Much academic work on families and households has focused in the past on the adult members. However, a surge of interest in children's issues has occurred recently in the social sciences. A key theoretical assumption in this area of research is that children's relationships and cultures are worthy of study in their own right and that children play an active part in the construc...

    $1,760.00

  • YOUNG EUROPEANS, WORK AND FAMILY
    JULIA BRANNEN
    Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young people's pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives. This enlightening book investigates young people from a range of social classes and at various phases in their life: in training, i...

    $1,240.00

  • CONNECTING CHILDREN
    KALWANT BHOPAL / JULIA BRANNEN / ELLEN HEPTINSTALL
    Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives...

    $1,420.00

  • RESEARCHING FAMILY NARRATIVES
    ANN PHOENIX / JULIA BRANNEN / CORINNE SQUIRE
    This edited book guides students and researchers through the processes of researching everyday stories about families. Showcasing the wide range methods and data sources currently used in narrative research, it features: Examples of real research into historical and contemporary family practices from around the world. Coverage of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, like m...

    $1,432.57