Sociology: family and relationships

This is an ethnographic account of the transnational caregiving experiences and practices of Australian migrants and refugees, caring for their elderly parents in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and New Zealand.

This book gives insights on youth, masculinity and place by exploring spatially marginalized masculinities in stigmatized and romanticized out-of-the-way places in 'developed' Western countries.

This research project offers a new perspective on post-sixteen transitions.

This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens.

In this compelling narrative Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world.

Writing against the grain of popular perception and moral panic, Pomerantz offers an intricate look at the importance of style for girls in school.

Correcting misconceptions through profiles of diverse families, Rivero uncovers the changing and complex needs of children today.

This book uses political and socio-anthropological theory to examine the relationship between power, interest, and agency within population and family planning discourse across Africa, with particular emphasis on case studies from Tanzania.

Conjugal Rites explores the legal shape of marriage as it has been determined by countless decisions concerning entry and exit into the ancient rite.

In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgounds use digital technology in their everyday lives.

Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.

The result of a four-year, in-depth study of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime.

The popular referendum of 1974 which affirmed Italy's recently-won divorce law is widely regarded as a turning point in modern Italian history, but the long story behind that struggle has remained largely unfamiliar.

The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded.

Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science.

Music in Youth Culture examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective.

This book undertakes a study of the trope of possessed child in literature and film.

This collection of essays represents some of the most important recent research into changing patterns of family, household and community life.

The essays in this collection represent a major contribution to our understanding of youth and transitions to key areas of adult citizenship, including employment, independent living arrangements and political participation.

Mundane Heterosexualities provides the reader with a critical overview of feminist thinking on the topic of heterosexuality.

This book examines the lives and repartnering behaviour of former spouses and co-habitees, groups pivotal to recent marital change.

This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities.

Children today are growing up in a world of global media.

This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse.

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy.

Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability studies theories.

This book explores the challenge of making a life: finding meaning, livelihood and social connectedness.

Despite the growing multi-faith and multi-ethnic nature of Britain, there is insufficient knowledge about diversity in family practices across ethno-religious groups.

This book examines common familial trends and differences throughout Europe from the 1960s onwards and discusses the most common theoretical explanations for convergence and divergence.

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.