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The world of social theory, particularly as it is applied to family and gender issues, has become a tangle of claims and counterclaims regarding ideological predisposition and the sheer impossibility of understanding the world without the appropriate perspective. Therefore, it seems important to review the myriad threads of classical social theory that have the origins and impact of familial, blood, and marital ties as part of their concern.
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Vargus, B.S. (1999). Classical Social Theory and Family Studies. In: Sussman, M.B., Steinmetz, S.K., Peterson, G.W. (eds) Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5367-7_8
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