Sociology: family and relationships

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.

This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new perspectives on the history and different concepts of children's rights in a contextualized and localized manner.

This work explores the growing convergence between youth culture and digital communication technologies and the corresponding challenges posed to policymakers, examining the current governance debate on online child safety.

This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres.

This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.

This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to uncover mechanisms at work in these individuals' lives.

In the US and UK there has been a transformation in child care, family leave, social assistance and tax credits over the last twenty years.

This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.

This collection focuses on the real life experiences of conducting emprical research about families and relationships, with an emphasis on the actualities of doing research and the experiences of being a researcher.

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives.

Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life.

Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and social life in three different national contexts: Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and Harvey Milk in the U.

As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity.

This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike.

This edited collection uses the concept of 'displaying families' as a new way to understand contemporary family and personal life, addressing how, in a world of fluid relationships, family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be done'.

This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it.

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline.

This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe.

Drawing on recent developments within the sociology of family life, this book examines family connection and solidarity within different stepfamily networks, focusing on relationships from a kinship perspective and using case studies of people's experiences to explore how family connection is constructed within different stepfamilies.

Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case for placing children's issues at the core of human development.

Exploring the experiences of children encountering war and armed conflict, this book draws upon history, ethnography, sociology, literature, media studies, psychology, public policy, and other disciplines to address children as soldiers, refugees, and peace-builders within their social, cultural, and political contexts.

This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly.

Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin.

Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.

The behaviour and safety of children and young people in and around schools is a topic of world-wide concern.

This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and experiences of students who choose to study abroad for the whole or part of a degree.

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture.

This book examines ideas of 'home' of Americans and Western Europeans under the influence of the two major revolutions of our times: the gender revolution and increased mobility due to globalization.

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society.

Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book.

Unique in the multiple approaches that it encompasses, this book includes discussions of both older and younger workers, employer and employee perspectives, generational and age diversity and international comparisons.

This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children.

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics.

This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems.

An account of the nature and value of the family within a liberal society.

This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century.

Dickens and the Children of Empire examines the themes of childhood and empire throughout Dickens' oeuvre.

There is widespread and growing concern about the use of alcohol in society, especially by young people.

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s.

A new approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirty-something; graduates and work; mental health and happiness; new configurations of masculinity; the sexual lifecourse; political beliefs in adulthood; and adulthood and the housing market.

This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood.