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...