Sociology: Family & Relationships

Undoubtedly Romantic love has come to saturate our culture and is often considered to be a, or even the, major existential goal of our lives, capab...

The first generation of children born under China's one-child family policy is now reaching adulthood. What are these children like? What are their...

Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be tha...

The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how t...

Is the American family a thing of the past? Almost anyone can tell a story that illustrates how dramatically things have changed in the past decade...

This is a study of love, specifically of men’s and women’s emotional roles vis-à-vis one another in Northeast Brazil; of how people form conjugal r...

When situated in the wider European context, ‘the Irish family’ has undergone a process of profound transformation and rapid change in very recent ...

Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of...

Marriage and Family Therapy: A Sociocognitive Approach is a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to sociocognitive therapy. It is rich wi...

Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish paren...

How a TED Talk Speaker Learned to Successfully Confront Bigotry, Prejudice, and Racism“This brilliant and well-researched book ought to be required...

Marriage and Family Therapy: A Sociocognitive Approach is a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to sociocognitive therapy. It is rich wi...

‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The co...

The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men ...

Finally, here is an enlightening and empowering book that defines motherhood from a feminist perspective and then explores the implications of that...

We have earned a certain place in each other’s lives, and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together. Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Re...

Family researchers have long recognized the interconnected nature of work and family. Around the globe, there is a clear recognition that the paid...

For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the ...

'This fascinating book presents the work of nine social historians who seek to reconstruct the elusive and highly personal private lives of colonia...

"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"Nobody can ignore th...

According to psychologist Blaine Fowers, the myth of marital happiness-that good communication, emotional gratification, and intimacy result in a h...

Steps toward understanding "street people" in Santa Barbara--and everywhere

In the 1940s film "Now", "Voyager", Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in ...