Sociology: family and relationships

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.

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.