Sociology: Family & Relationships

Learn the who, what, and why of unbecoming a motherIn a society where becoming a mother is naturalized, unbecoming a motherthe process of coming to...

This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth. Examining the transition out of adulthood and imagined futures of black...

Originally published in 1983, the origin of this book is to be found in C. C. Harris’s ‘Changing conceptions of the relation between family and soc...

Despite handicaps of low mental ability, deprived backgrounds or psychiatric and physical disability, most married couples with disabilities manage...

Provocative study of women who chose to be childless based on extensive interviews with women aged between 40 and 78. A significant contribution to...

This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Fe...

Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education i...

Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mother is now, in the context of welfare-to-work ...

This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up ...

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...

After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in pa...

As societies world-wide become increasingly multicultural, so the issues of identity, belonging, tolerance and racism become imperative to understa...

First Published in 1994. The purpose of an encyclopedia is to gather in one place information that otherwise would be difficult to find. Bring toge...

Men Are from Earth, Women Are from Earth is a self-help book for couples in conflict. Its primary goal is to help couples stop fighting and start l...

This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a la...

This book explores changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes toward sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five ...

This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rap...

Crafted from a research project that lasted for three years, this book examines the impacts of China’s universal two-child policy under the lens of...

Thicker Than Blood addresses in depth the impact of adoption on biological parents, adoptive parents, adopted children, and siblings.

Why did the medieval West condemn clerical marriage as an abomination while the Byzantine Church affirmed its sanctifying nature? This book brings ...

The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is crucial to surv...

This book explores the mother-daughter bond within the life cycle, from early development on into the turbulence of adolescence and the ambivalence...

Originally published in 1914, this text describes L.T. Headland and his wife’s experience in China in the early twentieth century. With a focus on ...

First published in 2000. Intimacy and Alienation is an examination of contemporary male/female relationships. The authors present a conceptual fra...

The great issues and conflicts of the early seventeenth century were played out not only on the stages of the Court and Parliament, and, latterly, ...

What do the Promise Keeper's Movement and the Million Man March reveal about our notions of masculinity and paternal responsibility? What can such ...

Few Americans escape the experience of divorce, either first-hand or through the dissolutions of marriages of friends or relatives. According to th...

This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of ...

This collection of essays represents a follow-up to the editors' 1994 publication, The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. In the preface to ...

The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is crucial to surv...

Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, ...

Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter i...

Many single woman–married man relationships are characterized by such recognizable, even stereotypic, interactions and run such a predictable cours...

This collection of essays represents a follow-up to the editors' 1994 publication, The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. In the preface to ...

The American family is changing. Divorce, single parents, and stepfamilies are redefi ning the ways we live together and raise our children. Many "...

Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Marriage and Divorce examines the history of marriage and divorce and the role played by both institutions in...

This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Social transition from a workin...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...

First published in 1983. Professor Paul Chao writes Chinese Kinship in the line of the Chinese tradition; it is in this tradition that cultural com...

In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. The...

This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their inte...