The Psychosocial Interior of the Family

, by Handel, Gerald; Whitchurch, Gail G.

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ISBN: 9780202304946 | 0202304949
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Copyright: 12/31/1994

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List of Contributors
Introduction to the Fourth Edition
Introduction to the First Edition, 1967
The Family as a Psychosocial Organization	p. 3
Marriage and the Construction of Reality: An Exercise in the Microsociology of Knowledge	p. 19
Marriage and the Construction of Reality: Then and Now	p. 37
Using Qualitative Methods to Study Families	p. 53
Qualitative Study of Whole Families in a Time of Great Change	p. 69
Family Research: A Case for Interviewing Couples	p. 87
Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Family Research	p. 109
The Three Phases of Systemic Maturation	p. 129
Family Boundary Ambiguity: Perceptions of Adult Stepfamily Members	p. 139
Challenging Boundaries: An Adolescent in a Homosexual Family	p. 159
An Anthropological Approach to Family Studies	p. 177
Family Ecologies of Ethnic Minority Children	p. 187
Determinants of Family Culture: Effects on Fatherhood	p. 211
The Appropriation of the Parent Role through Communication during the Transition of Parenthood	p. 229
The Dialectic of Marital and Parental Relationships within Stepfamily	p. 255
Television and Family Interaction	p. 281
Constructing the Family	p. 299
The Work of Love	p. 313
Women, Work, and the Family: Changing Gender Roles and Psychological Well-Being	p. 325
Power in the Family	p. 341
Reconstructing the Family	p. 363
Making Family under a Shiftwork Schedule: Air Force Security Guards and Their Wives	p. 375
Marital Conflict over Intimacy	p. 401
Stages in the Infant's Separation from the Mother	p. 419
Dual Parenting and the Duel of Intimacy	p. 449
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in the Adolescent Separation Drama	p. 465
Central Issues in the Construction of Sibling Relationships	p. 493
Building Gay Families	p. 525
Coping with Family Transitions: Winners, Losers, and Survivors	p. 537
The Downwardly Mobile Family	p. 561
Sex Codes and Family Life Among Northton's Youth	p. 585
A Different Kind of Parenting	p. 609
Backward Toward the Postmodern Family: Reflections on Gender, Kinship, and Class in the Silicon Valley	p. 643
Index	p. 669
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