Sociology: family and relationships

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.

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.

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.

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.

Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions A Strengths-Based Approach "e;Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring of knowledge, from the theoretical to the clinical.

Drawing on a small-scale longitudinal study of mid-life women tracking their menstrual cycles within the context of their lives as a whole over a twenty year period, this insightful book documents general health, family, and life situation changes and continuities for the participants.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Leadership for the Great Transition-a changemaker's toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilienceThe Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis.

Originally published in 1986, this title was a landmark study of ageing in Australia and a major contribution to the study of gerontology at the time.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES'An act of intimate storytelling'VOGUE'A profound, rich document'NEW STATESMANA deeply moving, newly discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

Inspiring portraits of gay men and their families from all across America.

A wonderful, wise, magical book The Giant on the Skyline is really quite incredible.

Fifteen years after its first publication, The Second Shift remains just as important and relevant today as it did then.

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?

Le Bonheur dans vos Relations Amoureuses grâce au Travail de Constellation Familiale et Systémique de Marc BacoLe Bonheur dans vos Relations Amoureuses grâce au Travail de Constellation Familiale et Systémique : vivez des relations épanouissantes, dans l’amour et le respect
Ce livre vous apprendra :
Comment vous libérer pour réussir à developer une relation épanouissante
Comment dépasser les intrications, les schémas établis et les blocages dans votre couple
Comment activer vos ressources
Comment grandir ensemble dans une relation grâce aux constellations familiales
Comment créer un lien profond, dans le respect
Comment nourrir votre âme d’amour
Ce livre s’adresse à tous ceux qui souhaitent avoir une relation de couple heureuse.

Policy situations can be understood through a relational lens, seeing policy as emerging from the working and reworking of relationships.

Policy situations can be understood through a relational lens, seeing policy as emerging from the working and reworking of relationships.

The futures of reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation are intimately connected.

Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers.

Originally published in 1986, this book's focal point is a field study which asks whether the social childrearing context of daycare transmits to young children values different from those within America's dominant value tradition of individualism.

Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers.

Originally published in 1986, this book's focal point is a field study which asks whether the social childrearing context of daycare transmits to young children values different from those within America's dominant value tradition of individualism.

This book explores the complex, evolving relationships between men, masculinities, and social welfare in contemporary context.

This book explores the complex, evolving relationships between men, masculinities, and social welfare in contemporary context.

House Sharing and Young Adults offers unique insight into the dynamics of successful house sharing among young adults and questions some of the myths fostered by the negative stereotyping of housemates.

House Sharing and Young Adults offers unique insight into the dynamics of successful house sharing among young adults and questions some of the myths fostered by the negative stereotyping of housemates.

This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for 'the man question'.

This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for 'the man question'.

Originally published in 1993, Adolescent Drinking and Family Life portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the context of the home environment.

Originally published in 1993, Adolescent Drinking and Family Life portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the context of the home environment.

This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.

This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.

Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Romantic Relationships is an innovative work that explores the concept of intimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Romantic Relationships is an innovative work that explores the concept of intimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

This book provides social work students at both undergraduate and graduate level with compelling child welfare case examples, intervention plans, and tips for building working alliances with clients.

Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century.