TY - BOOK AU - Cheal David TI - Family and the State of Theory SN - 745010040 PY - 1991/// PB - Harvester Wheatsheaf N2 - An up-to-date and comprehensive survey of modern sociological theories about family life. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Family Theory after the Big Bang, Progress and Decline: Modernism and Anti-Modernism, System and Liberation: Dialectics of Modernity, Private and Public: Dialectics of Modernity, The One and the Many: Modernity and Post-Modernity, Conclusion: The Instabilities of Post-Modern Social Theory, References, Author and Subject Index ER -