Sociology: family and relationships

No matter your profession (attorney, clinician, family therapist) or skill level (seasoned professional or novice), The Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution is an invaluable resource that outlines the most effective mediation approaches, techniques, and skills.

One understanding of child maltreatment is limited in that it is based almost entirely on research and clinical experience in Western nations.

Interrogating and integrating the various aspects of women's reproductive lives to expose the political dimensions of reproduction.

Ideas of choice and rights traditionally dominate discussions concerning reproduction and gender politics.

A child-focused approach to the best interests of the child.

In custody battles over the children of separated parents, the prevailing standard of evaluating what is in the "e;best interests of the child"e; has been scrutinized because of the discretionary nature of what is "e;best"e; and because of the bias in favour of the child residing in one "e;primary residence.

A ground-breaking, comparative study of how second-generation young adults from immigrant families relate to the religions of their backgrounds.

A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade.

In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers.

Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited.

À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins.

Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited.

Contributors include Denyse Baillargeon (Universite de Montreal), Bettina Bradbury (York University), Josette Brun (Universite Laval), Nancy Christie (Hamilton), Gwendolyn Davies (University of New Brunswick), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University), Peter Gossage (Universite de Sherbrooke), Ollivier Hubert (Universite de Montreal), Jack Little (Simon Fraser University), James Moran (University of Prince Edward Island), Suzanne Morton (McGill University), Matt Savelli (McMaster University), Michele Stairs (York University), James Struthers (Trent University), and David Wright (McMaster University).

Filling a void in feminist studies of women and war, Women in Zones of Conflict challenges the traditional view, which suggests a natural connection between women and pacifism, based on the feminine qualities of caring, cooperation, and empathy.

Written for a broad readership, Divorcing Marriage sheds light on three central questions: How did Canada come to the point of proposing a redefinition of marriage?

She notes that courtship usually took place within the social network of interactions with kin and neighbours and shows that family life was located in a broad social space that included people of various ages.

In 1973 Marie and Rod Adams, brimming with idealism and keenly aware of the plight of disadvantaged aboriginal children, adopted Tim, a young Cree boy, two and one half years old.

Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in this context of social and economic change.

Trust facilitates communication, love, friendship, and co-operation and is fundamentally important to human relationships and personal development.

The anthropologist Marcel Mauss, in his famous exploration of the gift in "e;primitive"e; and archaic societies, showed that the essential aspect of the exchange of presents involved the establishment of a social tie that bound the parties together above and beyond any material value of the objects exchanged.

Noivo examines how the intersection of migration and family projects affect kin ties, analyses the multiple burdens generated by migration, class, gender, generation, and minority status, and discusses the interplay between family and economic life.

Bonner analyses historical contributions to the urban-rural debate by Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth, and Robert Redfield, as well as contributions by contemporary theorists, such as Ray Pahl, Anthony Giddens, and Peter Berger.

Burtch examines the transformation of the role of the midwife, particularly the international resurgence of the midwifery movement over the past twenty years.

Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late eighteenth century young people began to enjoy great autonomy in courtship and decisions about marriage.

À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins.

This book presents the unconscious mind as the product of interpersonal interactionin its formation and in its growth and development across the life cycle.

In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number.

What happened to us?

Psychologists John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely practical book that digs into some of the worst mistakes that parents make, with suggestions on how parents can change immediately.

Soames Forsyte has built a good life for himself with his second wife Annette.

Following the massive success of his first book Is That My Child?

Shiksa Speaks: A White, Non-Jew's Understanding of the Cuban Jewish Diaspora and Its Legacy focuses on Cuban Jews, or Jewbans, whose family emigrated from Eastern Europe to the island in the 1920s then again to the US after the 1959 revolution in which Fidel Castro took power.

Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States.

One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries.

In turn creative thinker and street fl neur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life.

The family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China.

This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, for example, severe acts of violence to more subtle forms of conflict.

Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-term, committed, romantic partners.

Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype.

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships.

Family Conflict takes a life course approach as it provides an accessible discussion of family conflict issues, processes, and outcomes.

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of.

Siblings and all the lateral relationships that follow from them are clearly important and their interaction is widely observed, particularly in creative literature.

The first love in our lives is our mother.

Until recently, domestic violence, as it has been referred to, was a problem to be dealt with inside the family.

At first glance the sexual male seems easy to understand, but beneath the surface lie complexities that disrupt lives and relationships.

The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers.

For years, Cathy and her mother have been working out their relationship on the comic pages in such an honest, relatable, humor-filled way that thousands of mothers and daughters have written to say the comic strip is the single thing that has helped them keep speaking to each other over the years.

This book investigates the ways in which emerging digital technologies are shaping and changing the worlds of sexuality and gender diverse youth in Southeast Asia.