Understanding the Family 2/e Harriet McAtee Perelman describes this illusion as

Perelman describes this illusion as the "invisible handcuffs" of capitalism and traces its roots back to Adam Smith and his contemporaries and their disdain for working people

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and their fostering of a concept of ''community rights'' grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods

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Understanding the Family 2/e Harriet McAtee Perelman describes this illusion asAn introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how "the family" is constituted in the public and private spheres, and outline the tensions that exist between the dominant assumptions of state and society and the lived realities and everyday experiences of family life. The book draws on a range of theoretical perspectives from sociology, social policy and psychology to examine the assumptions about "the family" that are