Sociology: Family & Relationships

Ann Oakley is a pioneer in the field of sociological research. In this classic re-issue, she interviewed 60 women to find out what its really like ...

In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed sociologist Ann Oakley undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine womens work in th...

Teen TV is booming. Current youth series on streaming platforms are a clear indication of this, but have so far received little attention in German...

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every ...

What gives someone a moral right to parent? What role should the liberal state play in the creation of families? Are prospective parents allowed to...

For undergraduate courses in the sociology of the family. Focuses on studying the family through a sociological lens. Families and Their Social Wor...

While every parent knows more of what to expect the next time round, the birth of a second child is no less momentous. Family relationships multipl...

The second edition of this book offers an expanded and updated blueprint for more consistently improved practice, emphasizing family process and st...

This title was first published in 2000: This book provides an exploration of the link between individualized project evaluation and policy analysis...

Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more ne...

In 1975, National Airlines was shut down for 127 days when flight attendants went on strike to protest long hours and low pay. Activists at Nationa...

Many scholars see caregiving relationships as being based on mutual dependency or interdependency. Extensively cited notions of the global care cha...

What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a...

Intergroup friendships and marriages are regarded as the most important indicators of immigrants social integration, as they represent the most int...

This title was first published in 2000: This volume offers international comparative perspectives and critical analyses of the interconnections bet...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

This postmodern feminist study explores changes in Japanese American women's perspectives on child rearing, education, and ethnicity across three g...

2nd and 3rd year core modules/courses on Family Policy and Comparative Social Policy. Also Women's Studies - 2nd and 3rd year core component of soc...

This title was first published in 2000: Both the world of work and the sphere of family life are greedy, demanding time and energy of participants....

This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psycholog...

This book explores multiple facets of femininity for marriage in India. Using language as an entry point, it looks at how and why media representat...

This title was first published in 2003. This text reports on two nationally representative surveys of men and women in Britain and Spain, the forme...

Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issue...

Drawing an unfavourable contrast between the position of students and graduates with that of their baby boomer parents has become a staple for medi...

Sharing Lives explores the most important human relationships which last for the longest period of our lives: those between adult children and thei...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

First published in 1999, this volume examines the issue that, in the last two decades, the housing system in Hong Kong has witnessed a slow but con...

Have heterosexual relationships become more intimate and equal over the past forty years? Simply put, this is the central question underpinning th...

This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience c...

This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. Transnational Divorce uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnationa...

This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly, young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So, wh...

Bridging the gap between studies orientated around parenthood and those on the globalization of childhood, Parenting After the Century of the Child...

How do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationsh...

Defending the nuclear family and extolling family values have long been central features of politics in capitalist societies, in spite of radical l...

Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in i...