Sociology: Family & Relationships

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, mar...

This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide a new and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle, reflect...

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

Californias Santa Clara Valley was once home to a vigorous wine industry. The Garden of the World is the tale of a pioneer winemaking family headed...

Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relati...

Material relations tells the story of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited...

Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how t...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...

Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, entering into a new world of cul...

Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abil...

The 19th century brought a decisive shift towards a modern form of childhood one protected from the hazards and responsibilities of adulthood. F...

In the age of #MeToo and a radical re-envisioning of cultural attitudes, Nancy McCabe sets out to re-examine and gain new understanding of her ill-...

This book focuses on the nexus between marriage and migration in the wake of the recent attention given to foreign brides and mail-order bri...

Positive parent-child interactions play an important role in fostering the development of pre-schoolers'''' knowledge and understandings of their w...