Sociology: Family & Relationships

Many single woman–married man relationships are characterized by such recognizable, even stereotypic, interactions and run such a predictable cours...

This collection of essays represents a follow-up to the editors' 1994 publication, The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. In the preface to ...

The American family is changing. Divorce, single parents, and stepfamilies are redefi ning the ways we live together and raise our children. Many "...

Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Marriage and Divorce examines the history of marriage and divorce and the role played by both institutions in...

This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Social transition from a workin...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...

First published in 1983. Professor Paul Chao writes Chinese Kinship in the line of the Chinese tradition; it is in this tradition that cultural com...

In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. The...

This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their inte...

The Chinese economy is undergoing dramatic changes and the world is watching and changing along with it. The Chinese family is also changing in man...

I didn't want a divorce -- but the marriage had already died. I didn't want a divorce -- but my spouse left me and got one anyway. I didn't want a ...

As China globalizes, the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese--foreign marriages have profound im...

The history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first ...

Every day children enter classrooms crying out for love and relief. Waiting for Mister Rogers reveals a Kindergarten teacher's journey to find answ...

This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective ...

First published in 2002. This fascinating collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz...

Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children's diagnosis within a context of competi...

The "deadbeat dad" is a common figure in today's news media. As an experienced social worker, family therapist and mediator, Deena Mandell is intim...

This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia’s cultural life to mediate Australians’ a...

Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income households, continue to inv...

This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psycholog...

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, ‘Youth’ is a key period of transition. It can be difficult to define and make sense of this peri...

Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of s...