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Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences
Love, Sacrifice, and Transcendence
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2009
Summary
Much academic writing on families reflects the ideal of non-involvement and distanced subject matter. Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences suggests that the family sciences, in their effort to be scientific, have perpetuated this distance between researcher and subject, to the detriment of both. The authors argue that family and kinship ties are transcendent ties, boundary-crossing in numerous ways. They place an emphasis on family love, in contrast and in addition to romantic love, and criticize current approaches for neglecting the importance of transcendent concepts such as love, commitment, respect, and sacrifice in the development and well being of family structures. Drawing from insights both inside and outside of academia, the authors seek to reincorporate transcendent concepts into the study of the family as a unit of society. They argue for a more collaborative, family-centered family science and offer recommendations for how family researchers might work to change the scientific monologue about families to a systemic dialogue with families.
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Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2673-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3506-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
374
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. Families and Self-Sacrifice No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 02. Family Transcendence No access Pages 33 - 66
Chapter 03. Love No access Pages 67 - 126
Chapter 04. Family Spirituality No access Pages 127 - 172
Chapter 05. Family Work No access Pages 173 - 210
Chapter 06. Emotion Work in Families No access Pages 211 - 258
Chapter 07. Family Work as Ritual No access Pages 259 - 296
Chapter 08. Close, Warm, and Particular No access Pages 297 - 316
