Sociology: Family & Relationships

Written by leading experts in the field, this timely collection highlights current strategies and thinking in relation to prevention of sexual viol...

This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work.  A huge body of discourse is av...

For decades, social scientists have assumed that fictive kinship is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the U...

Imagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in public wasnt sexy, ...

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and...

Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration, this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary...

This title was first published in 2002: In recent years there has been a trend among young people across Europe towards remaining longer in their p...

Changing Relations of Welfare is concerned with the complexities of family relations and practices in the recent past and how these have been imagi...

Marriage and the Family: Mirror of a Diverse Global Society is a comprehensive text about marriage and the family in sociology, family science, and...

Numerous challenges exist in respect to integrating work and family institutions and there is remarkable cross-national variation in the ways that ...

This book provides an original insight into how families of origin of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) people are involved in negotiat...

Over the last few decades, families in many highly developed nations (such as Great Britain) have been held together by grandparents. Yet as single...