Sociology: Family & Relationships

Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book...

The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies o...

Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this ...

This book examines the experiences of relatives of those accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and sex offences...

Parent-focused interventions impact primarily on families living in disadvantaged communities, but there has been relatively little research into t...

Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this ...

All children have gifts. To unravel their gifts and help them achieve at their highest level takes not only love, but skills and techniques similar...

The complexity of ethnicity, socio-economic context, gender, race and racism provide the backdrop for discussions around contested areas such as pa...

Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book...

This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, ...

It's common knowledge that responsibilities in the home are not divided equally between men and women. Most sociological studies of this phenomenon...

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

Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These profound changes h...

Heterosexuality is a largely ‘silent’ set of practices and identities – it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored...

A New Youth? provides a cross-cultural perspective on the challenges and problems posed by young people's transition to adulthood. The authors addr...

An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comp...

Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous fo...

It's common knowledge that responsibilities in the home are not divided equally between men and women. Most sociological studies of this phenomenon...

Eastern Europe has been recognized as a region that has experienced major socio-political and economic changes in the last decades. The impact of t...

Euripides'Bacchae, Colridge's "Christabel," de Sade'sPhilosophy in the Bedroom, and Hitchcock'sPsycho share a common thread. InVisual Perversity: A...

Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in...

This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "sister" orphanages in Pi...

For three decades Susan Aranoff and Rivka Haut have battled to free agunot, Orthodox Jewish women chained to dead marriages because their husbands ...

Chaos. Frustration. Compassion. Desperation. Hope. These are the five words that author Wendy Welch says best summarize the state of foster care in...

Chaos. Frustration. Compassion. Desperation. Hope. These are the five words that author Wendy Welch says best summarize the state of foster care in...

When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they ...

In "Man, Woman and Marriage", noted experts discuss such subjects as the ways in which people choose their mates, how the family social system can ...

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasi...

The Boundaries of Mixedness tackles the burgeoning field of critical mixed race studies, bringing together research that spans five continents and ...

Focusing on the lives of first- and second-generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age who offend or have offende...

Love Rituals offers readers a collection of meaningful ways to enhance their relationships. The book is divided into three chapters: Daily Gestures...

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in...

This book grapples with the potential impacts of collective trauma in war-rape survivors’ families. Drawing on inter-ethnic and inter-generational ...

Despite increased awareness of sexual diversity, older people's accounts of sex and intimacy remain marginalised. This edited volume addresses di...

In the practice of constructing the idea of home and the emotions surrounding it, sensory experiences and materiality intertwine to form layers o...

Astaire and Rogers, Tracy and Hepburn. Just the mention of their names evokes the powerful chemistry between these screen couples, which utterly t...

This is the first volume in a series reporting on the evolution of family policies in twenty Western welfare states and comparing current provision...

This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men on contemporary industrial societies....

A major new resource book for academics and students of youth studies, this work offers a rare comparative review of a field which is often focused...

In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored the different ways in which marriage took place, and analysed the confusion and uncertainty surrounding...

The first full study of a topic rich in historical interest and contemporary importance Despite the infamous divorce of Henry VIII in 1529, subseq...

Despite current concerns for “family values” and the dissolution of marriages, Amy A. and Leon R. Kass see very little attention being paid to what...

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on t...

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat. What has be...

The cute child -- spunky, yet dependent, naughty but nice -- is largely a 20th-century invention. In this book, Gary Cross examines how that look e...