Sociology: Family & Relationships

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment...

Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated e...

This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the att...

This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel Univ...

Adolescence is a crucial period of life for the prevention of substance use disorders. Research has shown that early intervention can significantly...

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings t...

In 1926, Harold Keltner, a YMCA Boys Work secretary from St. Louis, and Joe Friday, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe First Peoples, channeled white ...

Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and ...

The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it i...

An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ...

In its various manifestations, the campaign to end child soldiering has brought graphic images of militarized children to popular consciousness. In...

Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical...

Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stor...

Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engage...

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to...

Works of theatre that depict grievous histories derive their force from making audible voices of the past. Such performances, theatrical or touris...

This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group Gujarati Indians born and brought up in two...

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxica...

The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United State...

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case stu...

This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre ...

Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretic...

In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active partic...

PARENTING TODAY'S CHILDREN will help you understand parenting roles, responsibilities, and challenges. Based on the latest research findings, the t...

Increasing numbers of evidence-based interventions have proven effective in preventing and treating behavioral disorders in children. However, the ...

Is Trump responsible for the January 6 insurrection? Are white people responsible for slavery? In Collective Responsibility, Leadership, and Attrib...

Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the...

Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the...

The U.S. military has been continuously engaged in foreign conflicts for over two decades. The strains that these deployments, the associated incre...

Indigenous communities experience higher risks for suicide compared to the general U.S. population, with suicide as the second-leading cause of dea...

An estimated 10 percent of children in the United States are living with disabilities, including a disproportionate number of children living in po...

On Irreconciliation focuses on the less examined but frequent ethnographic instances when survivors refuse to forgive in response to persistent imp...

This volume presents a set of theoretically inventive pieces that engage with data across its many locations, from government databases to ecologic...

Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to ...

Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and in...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close cont...

A Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropologythe study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their ...

The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one mans literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about t...

Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those ...

To better understand the inequalities facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth and the promising interventions being use...

Monogamy is not dismantled by fucking more or by falling in love simultaneously with more people, but by constructing relationships in a different ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of peopl...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...