Sociology: Family & Relationships

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosnjok) ...

A moving account of working mothers daily livesand the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that ...

The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in the wake of the 2011 riots conflated poor and disadvantaged families with anti-social and criminal...

In this exciting book, leading fatherhood scholars from Europe and Scandinavia offer unique insights into how to research fathers and fatherhood in...

In this exciting book, leading fatherhood scholars from Europe and Scandinavia offer unique insights into how to research fathers and fatherhood in...

This book won the 2014 Applied Communication Division Award for Outstanding Edited Book There is a growing interest in studying nonprofit organiza...

What happens when love is no longer enough? Jane Bernstein thought that learning to accept her daughters disabilities meant her struggles were over...

The concepts of gender, love, and family - as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and fa...

The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality whic...

In this provocative history of parenting, Harry Hendrick analyses the social and economic reasons behind parenting trends. He shows how broader soc...

Volume 15 of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes ari...

The American family has come a long way from the days of the idealized family portrayed in iconic television shows of the 1950s and 1960s. The four...

Proud sponsor of the 2019 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Awardenabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA...

In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but w...

Our families are our first and most important ethical training grounds. But what is the family? And what are our ethical commitments to our family ...

Diaries of a Forgotten Parent: Divorced Dads on Fathering Through and Beyond Divorce opens an intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Literat...

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generall...

Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family i...

The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relati...

The first hand stories in this book, collected through The Children's Society's campaign The Debt Trap, offer a unique understanding of life for fa...

In March 2017, researchers, advocates and NGOs from twelve countries came together in Rotorua, New Zealand, for the first conference of the Interna...