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Families, Relationships and Societies:

An international Journal of research and debate

Co-Editors Tess Ridge, University of Bath & Brid Featherstone, The Open
University

 

Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a new social science journal
designed to advance scholarship and debate in the growing field of families
and relationships across the life course. It will explore family life,
relationships and generational issues from interdisciplinary, social science
perspectives, whilst maintaining a solid grounding in sociological theory
and methods and a strong policy and practice focus. The title 'Families,
Relationships and Societies' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and
diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need
to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. 

International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical,
methodological and substantive issues, from the complexities of time, space,
mobility and social change, to debates around family forms, practices and
resources, intergenerational care and support, intimacy, individualisation,
inter-dependency, identity, gender and generation. Encouraging
methodological innovation, a life course perspective and dynamic approaches,
the journal will transcend traditional boundaries that typically focus on
one life course stage, one configuration of families or relationships, or
one society.

Articles and contributions will be drawn from disciplines and subject areas
across the social sciences and related lifecourse disciplines. The applied
focus of the journal will embrace a diverse global field and encourage a
critical engagement with policy and practice developments and issues within
and across welfare regimes.

 

Open Space, co-edited by Professor David Morgan and Dr Jacqui Gabb, is a
unique feature within the journal which provides an opportunity for debates
across domains. It provides a dynamic space for critical engagement with
contemporary debates, policy and practice initiatives, empirical research
and recent publications in the fields of families, relationships and
societies. This dialogic section will draw together different viewpoints on
a topic, bringing authors into conversation with one another and providing
up-to-date perspectives on local and global contexts. 

 

Call for papers

Submissions to the journal are invited from subject areas across the social
sciences and related life course disciplines.  Papers will be expected to
have relevance to academic, policy and practitioner audiences, enabling a
wide range of perspectives to be brought together in one place to foster
innovation and development within disciplines and advance interdisciplinary
research and practice. For further information or to submit a paper please
email the Editors c/o  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Contributions to the Open Space section are invited from all subject and
disciplinary areas. They can explore any topic that falls within the key
themes of the journal and may include Debate articles, Practice and policy
review and Review articles. For further information and to submit proposal
or contribution, please contact David Morgan at [log in to unmask]
<mailto:9;or3;da%0b8;[log in to unmask]>  or Jacqui Gabb at [log in to unmask]

 

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