Sociology: family and relationships

This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults.

This book analyzes the nature and experience of childhoods around the world at the beginning of the 21st century.

How possible is it for the state to steer family values and relationships?

Written in a clear and accessible style, this book presents a broad ranging enquiry into various methodological issues associated with contemporary youth research.

This collection is the result of a five-year-long collaboration of sociologists in Sweden, Spain and the United States.

Exploring current approaches to addressing boys' education in schools, this book highlights the limitations of structural reform initiatives and the failure to address the impact of socioeconomic status, race, sexuality, disability and hegemonic masculinity on both boys' and girls' participation in schooling.

This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures.

In this revised classic text, Segal's overview of theories of masculinity considers continuities and change in hegemonic notions of masculinity and focuses on competing male identities, exemplified in black, ethnic, gay and anti-sexist groups.

The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child resulted in even greater global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives.

Based on country reports and practical input from researchers and activists in the field, this book is an up-to-date account of the issues surrounding women's reproductive rights across Europe.

Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years.

Loneliness in Later Life concerns the personal and social changes associated with ageing, a topic which is becoming increasingly popular as the number of those in the Third Age themselves reaches unprecedented levels.

Key factors that impact upon children's educational motivation and engagement are here considered from an international and comparative perspective.

Why are most British lone mothers unemployed?

Multilingual Living presents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels.

Are children today growing up too soon?

Friendship and Educational Choice provides a unique insight into how young people go about making decisions about their educational options and the subtle, yet crucial, influence of friends and peers on these processes.

This book explores the intersection between motherhood and physical disability.

The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of 'law and order' to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve.

How do young people get by in hard times and hard places?

Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics of fertility and the battle over birth control in South Africa from 1910 (the year the country was formed) to 1945.

Engendering Emotions examines the production and promotion of the idea of sex/gender difference in emotional experience and expression in the contemporary West.

This book follows a group of women pursuing safety from abusive relationships.

This book explores the management of children's services in local authorities across England and Wales.

In the context of the ongoing destandardization of young people's lives, this book explores changing patterns of household formation amongst contemporary 20-somethings and the implications of these changes for the ways in which they relate to friends, parents and partners.

Educating young people about sex and sexuality remains one of the most controversial and political areas of the school curriculum.

The Age of Consent; Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship addresses the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated.

Using an innovative, action research approach, Vickers explores the lives of women who work full time while caring for a child with significant chronic illness or disability.

In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising perspectives and approaches.

In raising questions about the relationship between gender power, class power and enterprise, this book brings an insightful perspective to the study of family capitalism.

This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime.

This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK.

From the running of boys' clubs and catching truants to supervising troublesome kids and giving them a 'clip round the ear', the role of the police has been a recurrent theme in the debate about juvenile delinquency.

This book uses a feminist approach to examine the vast amount of material on breast-feeding.

Abortion is a woman's health concern and a complex moral dilemma everywhere.

The spectacular economic and technological achievements of certain Far Eastern countries have attracted world wide attention.

This book is the result of the first comprehensive research, carried out within the framework of Islamic Studies, on childhood in medieval Muslim society.

Households headed by women are a growing presence worldwide.

The Japanese take education very seriously.

Children in Culture is one of the first fully multi- and interdisciplinary collections of essays on theoretical approaches to childhood and formulates and presents new and exciting ideas about the construction of childhood as a cultural identity.

The first line of responsibility for children lies with their parents, but what if the parents fail to look after their children?

This edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history.

The book traces the origins of change in general education in the last years of the Soviet Union and afterwards in the Russian Federation.

Andy Green develops on his earlier historical work on Education and State Formation in a study of education and the nation state in an era of globalization.

Family structures have become increasingly diverse over recent decades.

The power to act is two-sided in that it refers to the parent's ability to initiate (having children or responding to their actions) and to the ability to suffer consequences (irreversibility and unpredictability).

This is the first western book on the subject of wartime Soviet schooling.

It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice.

The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age.

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts.