Sociology: Family & Relationships

Take this test. You think today's sensitive, caring man is: (a) a myth, (b) an oxymoron, or (c) a moron. No matter whether you laugh at this bit of...

Between Generations concerns powerful memories that continue to shape the present, but in this case in almost all families throughout the world. Wh...

Parenting today is virtually synonymous with worry. We want to ensure that our children are healthy, that they get a good education, and that they ...

Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock ...

Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic backgrou...

This is the first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the br...

The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen offers a comprehensive global analysis of the representation of Mothers and Motherhood in contempora...

Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock ...

When American anthropologist Andrea Rugh rented a room in a small Syrian village, hoping to find time to finish a book she was writing, she never e...

-- Carol Hostetter, Social Work Today

This is the first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the br...

Examining the substantial changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law over the last twenty years, this volume describes...

Family mobility decisions reveal much about how the public and private realms of social life interact and change. This sociological study explores ...

Across the world, the role of grandparents is changing. This book highlights the changing roles, and the consequences of these changes, for both gr...

This Reader brings together a broad range of critical work on on the everday practices and power relations of domestic consumption -drawing on mate...

There are two narratives of the American class structure: one of a country with boundless opportunities for upward mobility and one of a rigid clas...

This volume explores mixed race/mixed ethnic identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Mixed race and mixed ethnic identity are growing in popularity as ...

During the twentieth century arrangements governing love, work, and their routinization in households and employment underwent a transformation. Du...

Research on the family has expanded considerably across Asia but studies tend to be fragmented, focusing on narrow issues within limited areas (cit...

In Europe, the percentage of lone-parent families has risen from 14% to 19% between 1996 and 2012. Only in Greece and Finland did the rates fall, w...