Families, Intimacies and Personal Relationships. A special issue co-edited by Jacqui Gabb and Elizabeth Silva

Jacqui Gabb (Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, OU) and Elizabeth Silva (Professor of Sociology, OU) have jus co-edited a special issue on Families, Intimacies and Personal Relationships (Special Section of Sociological Research Online, 16 (4), 23, December 2011).

Introduction to Critical Concepts: Families, Intimacies and Personal Relationships
by Jacqui Gabb and Elizabeth B. Silva
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/23.html

From Function to Competence: Engaging with the New Politics of Family
by Val Gillies
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/11.html

Lost in Transnationalism: Unraveling the Conceptualisation of Families and Personal Life Through a Transnational Gaze
by Sue Heath, Derek McGhee and Paulina Trevena
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/12.html

Personal Life, Pragmatism and Bricolage
by Simon Duncan
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/13.html

Family Lives and Relational Living: Taking Account of Otherness
by Jacqui Gabb
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/10.html

Intimacy as a Concept: Explaining Social Change in the Context of Globalisation or Another Form of Ethnocentricism?
by Lynn Jamieson
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/15.html

Figuring Families: Generation, Situation and Narrative in Contemporary Mothering
by Mary Jane Kehily and Rachel Thomson
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/16.html

Locating 'Family Practices'
by David H. G. Morgan
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/14.html