Sociology: Family & Relationships

Much has been written about the events surrounding the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, especially about the intentions, pri...

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

Drawn from Disability & Society over the period 1997-2012, the twelve chapters in this book address a range of personal, cultural and instituti...

The book examines the topic of paternal authority as it developed over a long period of time. The focus is on the power of fathers as manifested wi...

Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical ...

This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it s...

The new millennium has seen a variety of parenting styles that differ greatly from previous generations. Titles such as Tiger Moms and Helicopter P...

Few people living in 1900 could have imagined what life would be like for children and families by the start of the 21st century. The 20th century ...

In Getting Married, Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer examine the social rules and expectations that shape our most personal relationships. How do coup...

Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan an...

This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and impleme...

Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more ne...

This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military pe...

Babies are not simply born—they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday exp...

In Getting Married, Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer examine the social rules and expectations that shape our most personal relationships. How do coup...

Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a ‘fertility crisis’. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people d...

Some relationships are within the family -- such as between parents and children, grandparents and children and between siblings -- while others ar...

In the fall of 2008, a global recession struck, leaving many families in dire financial situations. Families around the world found themselves expe...

Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emo...

First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s book on family and kinship in Bethnal Gr...

This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the p...

This book briefly reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility in develop...

This book brings together recent UK studies into children’s experiences and practices around food in a range of contexts, linking these to current ...

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men symposium. Essays and wor...

This book offers a broader, more positive picture of African American fathers. Featuring case studies of African-descended fathers, this edited vol...

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the lon...

Bollywood Weddings examines how middle to upper class second-generation Indian-American Hindus negotiate wedding rituals, including the dating and ...

Family Configurations develops current scholarship on families and intimate lives by demonstrating that family relationships, far from being fluid ...

Divorce has become a form of family change in contemporary western societies, spawning much research to investigate its causes and consequences. Su...

"I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light crust pastry. And for what?'" As a clergy w...

Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of s...

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issue...

This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the...

Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donat...

The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, ...