Representing the ‘Voice’ of Patients: How Third Sector Organisations Conceptualise and Communicate Experiential Knowledge in Health Service Development

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - The growing prominence of patient and public involvement in health services has led to the increased use of experiential...     

Alternative family patterns; Their lot in family Sociology and in the life‐worlds of ordinary people

Family sociological discourses have tended to view and interpret alternative family patterns in various ways. Modem role theory of the 1950s regarded them as deviant behaviour; liberal theory normalized them while postmodern theory obscures the distinction between the family and its alternatives. All forms of sociological discourse fail to capture the essense of everyday social reality as lived and experienced by ordinary people. This reality is one where the traditional family model co‐exists with various alternatives, often in combination.