Sociology: Family & Relationships

This book examines the role of family and schooling through an interpretive, qualitative, intergenerational case study. It examines the formation o...

How middle-class families in Nepal pursue “well-being” in a rapidly changing social landscape Modern Dharma asks how Nepalese people live dharma, a...

A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, this collection of essays from sixteen notable writers breaks the silen...

How middle-class families in Nepal pursue “well-being” in a rapidly changing social landscape Modern Dharma asks how Nepalese people live dharma, a...

The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Soci...

Inheritance, once the preserve of the propertied upper classes, has become a much more common experience. Many more people now than in the past hav...

"Bravo to the authors! They have done an excellent job addressing the issues that are critical to community members, policy makers and intervention...

This comprehensive textbook offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the history of human development and family science. It provides insights f...

This comprehensive textbook offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the history of human development and family science. It provides insights f...

What Now?Nothing your marriage has sustained in the past compares to the pain of discovering that your spouse has been unfaithful. The betrayal, ra...

This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking an...

Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an un...

As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movemen...

How much influence does culture have on a mother's reactions to pregnancy loss? At what stage is a fetus attributed with human status? How does thi...

Journalist and applied behavioral scientist Elizabeth Weingarten charts a new path to embrace the questions of our lives instead of seeking fast, e...

Since 1974 the abundance of articles and books published on family violence has heightened the awareness of the scope and significance of this prob...

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove m...

First published in 1997, this timely examination of allowances paid to foster carers demonstrates clear evidence that the nature of foster care is ...

In Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces—poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence—that have...

An up to date overview of one of the longest-running home visiting programs, emphasizing school readiness and early literacy in infants and toddlers

Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectiona...

As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movemen...

Julie Hemment's engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundations and Russian women's groups...

This volume is the printed version of a survey carried out in conjunction with a B.B.C. series called "The changing world" which was broadcast in 1...

In Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces—poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence—that have...

Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the...

This volume offers both theoretical and research-based accounts from mothers in academia who must balance their own intricate knowledge of school s...

Smooth Sailing enhances our understanding of the family's transition through adolescence by examining qualitative data about the experiences of par...

Conversation as Method is a most unique and engaging discussion among four women, all feminist scholars, who explore the different ways of knowing....

The "juggling act" of work and family that has characterized life in the past couple of decades has become a significant focus of those interested ...

Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an un...

This book breaks new ground by offering the first detailed and systematic analysis of inheritance practices in New York City from the beginning of ...

This book uses letter writing as a form of engaging autoethnography to address relational histories and dynamics such as race, gender, loss, memory...

This book uses letter writing as a form of engaging autoethnography to address relational histories and dynamics such as race, gender, loss, memory...

This book examines changes in families’ rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parents’ understanding of childre...

Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational...

From Library Journal Sociologists Murphy and Rosenbaum interviewed over 120 women who had children while using drugs. Their interviews reveal how t...

This book presents contributions from migration sociologists inspired by Florian Znaniecki’s theory and the results of his studies to conduct their...

"Coleman and Ganong recruited an outstanding group of scholars to contribute to the Handbook of Contemporary Families. Authors represent a wide arr...

An up to date overview of one of the longest-running home visiting programs, emphasizing school readiness and early literacy in infants and toddlers

Diana E. H. Russell, well-known for her pioneer research on the prevalence of rape and child sexual abuse, the reality of wife rape, the trauma of ...