Sociology: Family & Relationships

This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. P...

Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals oper...

This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture ...

Exceptional States examines new configurations of marriage, immigration, and sovereignty emerging in an increasingly mobile Asia where Cold War leg...

This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and...

The Dynamics of Jewish Latino Relationships centers around three themes: immigration, race and identity, and faith and religion. Each chapter explo...

Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed investigates a performance strategy which aims to develop possible alternatives to oppressive forces in individu...

Euro-commuters' have emerged as a new group of migrants since the onset of the economic crisis in the EU. These people work in one country but live...

Informed by ethnographic research with children, Davies offers new sociological insights into children's personal relationships, as well as closely...

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...