Concept information
Preferred term
families
Definition
- Families can be defined in universal, functional, structural, and inclusive ways. The predominant definition used by current family researchers is an inclusive one, which recognizes the many forms that families take and the varying roles carried out within families. [Source: Encyclopedia of Case Study Research; Families]
Narrower concepts
- adoption
- broken families
- dual-career families
- education and African family traditions
- effects of divorce on children
- European immigrant families
- experiences of immigrants
- extended families
- family caregiving for elders
- family policy
- family systems theory
- immigrant families in the United States
- large families
- Latino families in America
- lone parent families
- mediating effects of television on family communication
- multigenerational families
- Native American children and families
- nuclear families
- small families
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/families
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