Sociology: Family & Relationships

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...