Sociology: Family & Relationships

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, c...

As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and low...

While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are ...

An account of the nature and value of the family within a liberal society. It defines 'family', and assesses the right to have a family, whether th...

The fifth book in the Soulful Truth Telling series, Why Isnt This Marriage Enough? is for the woman who has everything shes ever wanted: the nice h...

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critica...

Quality of life is an issue which has drawn the attention of scholars, politicians and the general public since ancient times. Along with the devel...

In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of child...

The futures of reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation are intimately connected. Both movements were born out of the desire to love and build ...

In a nation lacking a comprehensive social safety net, people often scramble to find private solutions to structural problems. While existing schol...

In a nation lacking a comprehensive social safety net, people often scramble to find private solutions to structural problems. While existing schol...

In dem Band wird auf Basis einer triangulierten Studie aufgezeigt, welche Herausforderungen Organisationen der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit akt...

Explore the latest research in anthropological genetics and understand the genomes role in cultural and social development A Companion to Anthropol...

In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men ...

This book explores the regulation of intimate relationships today. Using historical and contemporary legal-political sources, the author investigat...

Class-based self-perception is a rising issue worldwide. Through observation in kindergartens in Fiji, Brison examines how schools instil these ide...

The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life ...

This book explores how we make sense of ourselves when work is precarious and intrinsically alienating. We know little about how this experience of...

In Love the One Youre With, readers learn simple techniques to completely turn their life around and get the spark back into their marriage and lif...

This book takes Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school meals as a starting point for thinking about morally charged concerns relating to young p...

This volume of Lévi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible...

The new, updated edition of the authoritative and comprehensive survey of modern sociology The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sociology, Second Editi...

Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about ca...

This book analyzes the impact of migration on the lives of multiple generations of 2000 Turkish families. Exploring education, marriage, fertility,...

Marriage in Europe became a central pillar of society during the medieval period. Theologians, lawyers, and secular and church leaders agreed on a ...

Romantic Terrorism offers an innovative methodology in exploring the ways in which domestic violence offenders terrorise their victims. Its focus o...

Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large Europe...

This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In many countries VFR is the largest single travel-related mark...

This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In many countries VFR is the largest single travel-related mark...

NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also...

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal de...