Family

Adrian Wilson provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the family. The book opens with a chapter on family structure looking at the family historically and in cross-cultural perspective. Following this is a review first of theoretical approaches to the family including functionalist feminist Marxist and radical criticism and second how the family is studied sociologically. Chapters 4 and 5 look at the changing British family and British families today and the concluding chapters examine family problems for example divorce violence one -parent families and the family and the state.