Sociology: family and relationships

This pioneering collection provides, for the first time, an international and transdisciplinary reflection on youth, history and queer sexualities and genders.

This book traces the growing influence of 'neuroparenting' in British policy and politics.

This book makes a distinctive contribution to reflections on what child-centred practice means in the complex area of child welfare.

This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing.

Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America.

With an increasing number of elders moving into nursing homes, the shift from family to nursing home care calls for an exploration of caregiving decision-making in urban China.

This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media.

This book explores the ways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expanding consumer-media culture in the 21st Century.

This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the eyes of migrants and their families.

This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels.

The 'mixed race' classification is known to be a factor of disadvantage in children's social care and this fastest growing population is more likely than any other ethnic group to experience care admission.

This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life.

This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them.

Incorporating the latest research and clinical work in family dynamics, this book examines multiple angles of integrating sibling issues, which underlie issues at the core of many clinical difficulties presented by adult clients, in therapy to improve adulthood emotional and psychological well-being.

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture.

Poliomyelitis, better known as polio, thoroughly stumped the medical science community.

This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice.

Processes of development concerning reconciliation,rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for globalorganizations tasked with intervening in broken and divided societies afterviolent conflicts.

The Dynamics of Jewish Latino Relationships centers around three themes: immigration, race and identity, and faith and religion.

This edited collection by leading Australian Aboriginal scholars uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) to explore how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are growing up in contemporary Australia.

Both research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers' lives.

The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective.

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century.

This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism.

What is it like to grow up as a South Asian British Muslim today?

For every female suicide in Ireland, there are five male suicides.

Is the current industrial model of schooling capable of preparing young people for modern working life?

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality.

This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances for the purpose of perceived body image enhancement.

Dramatic social transformation in Western society over recent decades has had a profound impact on the way the life course is studied.

This book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of children's mobilities by focusing on its interdependent, imagined and relational aspects.

In an age of migration and mobility many aspects of contemporary family life - from biological reproduction to marriage, from child-rearing to care of the elderly - take place against a backdrop of intensified movement across a range of spatial scales from the global to the local.

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel.

This book examines the demographic development of Russia from the late Russian Empire to the contemporary Russian Federation, and includes discussions of marriage patterns, fertility, mortality, and inter-regional migration.

In the course of last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social and cultural sciences.

Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages.

Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration.

The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood.

Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.

This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia.

Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and identities of queer - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender - youth involved in inclusive churches.

This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright.

This book analyzes the impact of migration on the lives of multiple generations of 2000 Turkish families.

Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes thinking about early childhood education policy around the globe.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

Menstruation is a topic which is both everyday and sensitive.

Child labor greatly contributed to the cultural and economic success of the British Victorian theatrical industry.

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times.