‘Doing Things with Words’: Sociology and ‘Family Policy’ Debates
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Review
- Vol. 35 (4), 679-702
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1987.tb00561.x
Abstract
In examining ‘family policy’, previous work on ‘family ideology’ is developed to demonstrate that ‘traditional family sociology’ has been ‘doing things with words’. In this area sociology, far from being innocuous, has had real impact upon society and may well have been oppressive and deeply reactionary.Keywords
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