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Continuity and Change in the Study of Family Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Dorothy Jerrome
Dorothy Jerrome
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Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
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Recent work on family life in old age may be considered in several dimensions. First, it encompasses different substantive areas: parentchild relationships, care-giving, changing family forms. Second, it involves different types of discourse, which variously reflect social policy considerations, legal and ethical debates, academic discourses and prescriptive writing for professionals and older people. A third dimension consists of methodological and theoretical variations. These include synchronic and life history approaches, quantitative and qualitative methods, positivistic and phenomenological research paradigms, and cross-cultural and historical comparisons.

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Progress report
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Ageing & Society , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 93 - 104
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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