Sociology: family and relationships

Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family science to reflect the increasingly diverse complexity of family concerns in the modern world.

This volume tackles key issues in the changing nature of family life from a global perspective, and is essential reading for those studying and working with families.

This volume tackles key issues in the changing nature of family life from a global perspective, and is essential reading for those studying and working with families.

From a leading expert, a guide to changing your anger style and successfully communicating your feelings.

Compelling stories of fatherhood from the popular NPR radio show From the popular radio series This I Believe comes this touching and thought-provoking compilation of original essays on one of the most fundamental of human relationships-fatherhood.

Compelling stories of fatherhood from the popular NPR radio show From the popular radio series This I Believe comes this touching and thought-provoking compilation of original essays on one of the most fundamental of human relationships-fatherhood.

Studies the Indian state''s difficult dialogue with divorce, mediated largely through religion.

Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children''s experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.

This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.

Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children''s experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks.

Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks.

This book explores LGBQTNB people''s relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

This book explores LGBQTNB people''s relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

Explores how marriage in Ireland was perceived, negotiated and controlled by church and state as well as by individuals across three centuries.

Explores how marriage in Ireland was perceived, negotiated and controlled by church and state as well as by individuals across three centuries.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary investigation of family reunification laws, policies and practices across the European Union.

Provides a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts.

A benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature on personal relationships.

Explores single men and women in the Roman world, their ways of life and their reasons for remaining unmarried.

A benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature on personal relationships.

Social media is polarizing America: using Facebook causes Americans to negatively judge and stereotype those people with whom they disagree about politics.

Social media is polarizing America: using Facebook causes Americans to negatively judge and stereotype those people with whom they disagree about politics.

This book investigates the social and political implications of the US multiracial population, which has surged in recent decades.

Stories of couples around the world whose everyday decisions about housework, childcare, and paid work achieve equality at home.

Provides a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts.

Stories of couples around the world whose everyday decisions about housework, childcare, and paid work achieve equality at home.

Traces and theorises the processes of caring, paid work and ''gatekeeping'' as parents negotiate these intensified and gendered domains.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

Traces and theorises the processes of caring, paid work and ''gatekeeping'' as parents negotiate these intensified and gendered domains.

This book summarizes theoretical and empirical advancements in research on uncertainty in close relationships, and recommends practical applications and extensions.

Applies a historical, cultural, and life-course developmental framework toward understanding children''s lives in a changing world.

Applies a historical, cultural, and life-course developmental framework toward understanding children''s lives in a changing world.

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

The first book to provide a socio-legal perspective on current interrelations between globalization, borders, families and the law.

Volume 1 provides an overview of the core areas of sociology and the development of the discipline that is both comprehensive and up to date.

The first book to provide a socio-legal perspective on current interrelations between globalization, borders, families and the law.

Volume 1 provides an overview of the core areas of sociology and the development of the discipline that is both comprehensive and up to date.

A ground breaking study of the ways that intimate relationships are similar around the world, and the ways they are different.

A ground breaking study of the ways that intimate relationships are similar around the world, and the ways they are different.

Volume 2 provides an overview of specialties within sociology and interdisciplinary studies that is both comprehensive and up to date.

Volume 2 provides an overview of specialties within sociology and interdisciplinary studies that is both comprehensive and up to date.

This book explores the vital role played by the family in Stoic ideas of moral development found in Seneca''s philosophical writing.

Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.

This book explores the vital role played by the family in Stoic ideas of moral development found in Seneca''s philosophical writing.

Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.

An outline of how power, an inherent feature of social interactions, operates and affects close relationships.