Sociology: Family & Relationships

Spain has one of the highest per capita international adoption rates in the world. Internationally adopted kids are coming from many of the same co...

Following the success of its best-selling predecessors, the Fourth Edition of Harriette Pipes McAdoo′s Black Families retains several now classic c...

Work-life integration is an increasingly hot topic in the media, social research, governments and in people’s everyday lives. This volume offers a ...

"Daly has crafted one of the most accessible, comprehensive, and functional texts in research methods that students, scholars, and practitioners co...

Making Families Through Adoption provides a comprehensive look at adoption practices both in the United States and in other cultures, and a general...

In this paradigm-shifting volume, Allan C. Carlson identifies and examines four distinct cycles of strength or weakness of American family systems....

Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhoo...

Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern...

This unique, timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The ...

Regardless how you interpret the statistics, the divorce rate in the United States is staggering. But, what if the government could change this? Wo...

Many dimensions of family life have changed. Age at marriage has risen, arranged marriages and extended families have declined, intergenerational r...

Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhoo...

What does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and coll...

Stephen M. Cherry draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism an...

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are alt...

The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East A...

Gender Roles in Ireland: three decades of attitude change documents changing attitudes toward the role of women in Ireland from 1975 to 2005, a key...

Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and ...

Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational...

This book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in the capital city of Uzbekistan. The ethnographic details of the book re...

The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents, yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the natu...

This book addresses the question of what world history looks like when the family is at the center of the story. People have always lived in famili...

As seen on This MorningThere was a time when I loved my mother. It's shocking to imply that I stopped loving her because mothers always love their ...

In making the argument for the remedy of inequality, contemporary political philosophers often emphasize the arbitrariness of disadvantage, stressi...