Sociology: Family & Relationships

Now available in paperback for classroom use!"This comprehensive text provides a rich source of perspectives on theorising about the family for sch...

Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories,...

If present trends in divorce and remarriage continue, the stepfamily will eventually outnumber all other types of family in the U.S. Three decades ...

This book opens a view into the dialogical methods used in national policy programmes and in local action research projects in Finland. On the basi...

Ausgehend von einer eingehenden Analyse der Datensammlungen des Europäischen Sprachatlasses zu ausgewählten Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen werden vor...

Revised and updated to include the most current information on same-sex marriage, The Limits to Union documents a legal struggle at its moment of g...

 Even in our world of redefined life partnerships and living arrangements, most marriages begin through sacred ritual connected to a religious trad...

American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed...

In unserer Gesellschaft formieren sich laufend neue Lebensformen. In Zukunft werden die Qualitäten des Wohnens daran gemessen werden, wie gut das Z...

Cultural Diversity and Families: Expanding Perspectives breaks new ground by investigating how concepts of cultural diversity have shaped the study...

Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and...

`This book is timely. [The author] draws on the work of several specialist teachers and sees a strong ′pupil voice′ as key to successful inclusion′...

Originally published in 1969, this introduction to the social study of the family was designed both for students of sociology and for students of r...

How do racialized migrant mothers contest hegemonic racialized formations of citizenship? Bringing together leading scholars from international and...

 Even in our world of redefined life partnerships and living arrangements, most marriages begin through sacred ritual connected to a religious trad...

Three institutions that are of particular importance to Basque history and culture form the main subject of this book: the baserria (the Basque far...

The book proposes a new academic concept, "Cultural Reverse" (文化反哺), referring to the phenomeno beginning in China in the 1980s in which the older ...

There are, contends Joel Rosenthal, two suppositions that have achieved almost full and unquestionable acceptance in contemporary social history an...

The monograph Social Clustering: Paradigm of Trust combines smart education strategies, social clustering and innovative educational practices. Net...

Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and...

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational ...

Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men,...

This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subal...

In 1980, single mother families were five times more likely than two-parent families to be poor. Forty years later, single-mother families are stil...

Published in 1998, this book brings together some of the key findings in parenting and educational programmes from researchers at the University of...

Work-life integration is an increasingly hot topic in the media, social research, governments and in people’s everyday lives. This volume offers a ...

Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Us...

This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subal...

This book aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the consequences of changes in European societies, focussing on migration and related phenom...