Sociology: Family & Relationships

The generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriagesomething unima...

Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Kor...

A playdate is an organized meeting where parents come together with their children at a public or private location to interact socially or play. Ch...

A real-world solution for parental leave that promotes gender equality at work and at home What do Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and the United State...

India has an intricate cultural history that extends over thousands of years. Over the past century, however, increasing modernization, along with ...

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...

Japan has often been portrayed as a mysterious, sexless, troubled land. Birth rates and marriage rates have been decreasing for decades, and nation...

Experiencing poverty during childhood can lead to lasting harmful effects that compromise not only children's health and welfare but can also hinde...

How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a diffe...

This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhan...

Romantic relationships and health are fundamental for society, but what happens to a persons well-being when he or she chooses the wrong partner? I...

Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family scienc...

Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily r...

This first book-length study devoted to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family offers a fresh look at this topic in light of 21st century con...

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers ...

This book examines ideas of 'home' of Americans and Western Europeans under the influence of the two major revolutions of our times: the gender rev...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender combines cutting edge research to provide a thorough overview of all the normative ...

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisci...

Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading...

Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground e...

Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally const...

This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and experiences of students who choose to study abroad for the whole or part of...

In a very comprehensible and entertaining way explores the main findings of the first academic research on world scouting, the largest young moveme...

Are young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to re...

Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India is a comparative study of the domestic violence laws in India and the United States, seeking ...

This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are ...

Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment caree...

This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new pe...

This book describes the findings of a five-year journey of inquiry of medical and social scientists. Of particular interest and emphasis are issues...

This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. ...

This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases that not only ...

This book examines the evolving relationship between the nation-state, citizenship and the education of citizens, exploring the impact European int...

Domestic Violence, Family Law and School discusses the ways in which family law disputes in cases of domestic violence can impact on children's liv...