Sociology: family and relationships Books

All too often we rely on our own thoughts to provide us with the answers to the very tough questions in life. Why not start asking some of the experts for their own take on what is right and what is wrong when it comes to the big questions like marriage?...

Este libro propone una mirada radicalmente diferente y refrescante respecto a los libros convencionales sobre el sexo y las relaciones, que se basan en teorías y principios psicológicos."Si estos libros funcionaran", escribe Gary Douglas, "¿No tendrías...

"Je t'embrasse tendrement... On peut faire les deux... T'ai-je choquée? Excitée? Les deux? Dis-moi."Toujours pas de réponse... Alors:"Lilou, t'es là?" Toujours rien..."Lilou?""Être coincé devant un ordinateur "muet" devait avoir un côté quelque peu...

The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook...

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of 'tradition' and 'modern'. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and...

This book dissects the reproductive intentions and behaviours of the one-child generation cohort in China, situated in the wider context of changing family life patterns and gendered lenses. Demonstrating that the one-child family is still favoured by...

This book discusses and analyses the ways in which fatherhood is in transition in contemporary and globalized society. The authors identify and examine fathering practices in relation to hegemonic and marginal patterns of masculinity, the concept of...

This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, Switzerland and Lithuania. Drawing...

This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice. Whereas most studies on transnational adoption concentrate on the adoptive family, the author identifies not only the happy...

This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of 21st century families in Britain through an exploration of intergenerational relationships. Drawing on new and extensive quantitative and qualitative research, the authors explore the giving...

""Bev������lkerungswissenschaftliche Studien aus Belgien V1 (1854)"" von J. E. Horn ist ein Buch, das sich mit bev������lkerungswissenschaftlichen Studien in Belgien im Jahr 1854 besch�����ftigt. Der Autor untersucht in diesem Werk verschiedene Aspekte...

""Beitr�����ge zur Geschichte des Pauperismus und der Prostitution in Hamburg"" ist ein Buch von Gustav Sch������nfeldt, das im Jahr 1897 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte von Armut und Prostitution in Hamburg...

""Bedingte Eheschlie�����ung: Eine kanonistische Untersuchung"" ist ein Buch von Franz Jos Riedler, das im Jahr 1892 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk behandelt das Thema der bedingten Eheschlie�����ung aus einer kanonistischen Perspektive und...

Are you sick and tired of always being manipulated and controlled in situations? Do you find yourself always being at a disadvantage because people seem to have a stronger personality than yours? Would you like to make use of informative, advanced, and...

Abuse has many forms. Some abuse is overt and can be seen. Other abuse lies hidden under the surface, waiting to spring out and sink its fangs unknowingly into its victims…Psychological warfare is real. It is pervasive, insidious, and can have...

In an era in which the teaching enterprise is freighted with tactics, techniques, and methods, M. Robert Gardner guides us back to the spirit of teaching. He writes especially about the dilemmas and challenges of teaching, about how it feels to be trying...

Interpersonal relationships and personal growth can be enhanced when you speak up for what you believe in. Drawing upon her counseling experience as well as her struggles in her own relationships as a mother, wife, pastor, and teacher, Carolyn Stahl...

An ideal supplemental textbook for classes in any professional program that trains psychotherapists and a valuable resource for working professionals.This reissued classic teaches supervisors and supervisees to anticipate the workplace issues they may...

The half century between 1783 and 1833 witnessed the creation of British India. Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. Comparing Malcolm...

This book addresses the richness and depth of our intimate relationships and especially those moments when we come to see ourselves and the other person in a new way. In such moments we realize that however much we are influenced by heredity and...

How are new relationalities formed? By what methods are kinship/family claims made? How are gender and race made relevant to subjectivities? How does state welfare discipline parenting? Are new forms of intimacy possible? This book investigates such...

A new approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirtysomething; graduates and work; mental health and happiness; new configurations of masculinity; the sexual...

This book explores the nature of intimacy by revealing how the influence of individual, interpersonal and wider social factors create variations in self-disclosure, intimacy games and relationship habits. It describes how the dynamics of power and...

Against a backdrop of social inequalities and rapid social change, this book develops a useful way of thinking about contemporary young people's issues. Following a group of young people for 12 years, Ani Wierenga's longitudinal study uncovers insider...

This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out. Theoretical debates about lesbian motherhood often consider its assimilative or transgressive dimensions. The author proposes a different approach,...

Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration. They highlight the range of sites, sectors, and skills in which migrants are employed...

Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and...

It is a commonly-voiced opinion that opportunities for mobility undermine family in modern industrialized societies. Family and Intimate Mobilities challenges this assumption. Drawing on theoretical developments in mobilities, family practices and...

Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope.

This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity...

Family Spending provides analysis of household expenditure broken down by age and income, household composition, socio-economic characteristics and geography. This report will be of interest to academics, policy makers, government and the general public.

Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability studies theories.

This book examines how changes in technologies and in family life both form part of processes of socio-cultural change. It addresses key questions including how does technology shape the ways we relate to each other? What is the significance of how we...

This book critically assesses the policy and legislative framework for the reconciliation of work and family life at EU level, and proposes a new way of looking at this complex set of issues based in what the realities are for working families.

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the globesity pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought childrens food marketing to the centre...

This book presents stories of adult only-childrens' experience and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face particularly in interpersonal relationships and self-image. The focus is on revealing and making sense of adult...

This volume challenges the common belief that scientific knowledge is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy confronted the problem of...

Have you ever said something with pure intentions that came across negatively? Have you ever misunderstood a comment? Did you get defensive and react?Most people don't intend to miscommunicate or offend, however, it happens. It causes big problems...