Sociology: family and relationships

The inspiring and powerful book about navigating grief from acclaimed grief coach and New York Times bestselling author Hope Edelman'Hope Edelman remains unmatched in perfectly weaving touching personal anecdotes with illuminating scientific data, to remind us we are not alone' Rachel Reichblum, That Good Grief______Grief is a path we can all expect to walk one day, when we lose someone we love, and life suddenly looks different.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Essential, clever and kind' Alain de Botton'I am a huge admirer of Julia's work' Elizabeth Day____________________In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her sessions as she explores the relationships that have the power to touch us and hurt us most: those with our family.

Every couple wants a happy relationship and a meaningful career but how do we balance both?

A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse'Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book' Andrew Marr'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures.

Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.

Growing up during the 1980s in the safe complacency of the Australian suburbs, Plum Coyle should be happy.

Social changes including an increase in dual-earner families, declining fertility, and growing problems of work-life 'balance' are underway as more women, particularly mothers, enter and remain in paid employment.

For years we have known that teenagers' peers influence their substance use.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

Are children today growing up too soon?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education.

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 opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world.

This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins.

Why are young people alienated from television news?

This collection of essays explores the broad range of influences which have shaped the distribution of authority within British homes and families - religion, commercial advertising, governments, welfare professionals, medical experts, psychologists and the law.

Bringing together contributions from international scholars, this book explores the changing nature of young people's transitions and challenges assumptions about pathways from education into employment in contemporary society.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

This book discusses the crisis of caregiving as it affects parents seeking to provide good care for their children and people who care for their aged or disabled relatives.

This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one s mother or of motherhood but of becoming one s mother - in past and present white feminist analyses of motherhood and mothering.

Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed investigates a performance strategy which aims to develop possible alternatives to oppressive forces in individual s lives.

Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives.

Beyond Loving provides a critical examination of interracial intimacy in the beginning decades of the twenty-first century-an era rife with racial contradictions, where interracial relationships are increasingly seen as symbols of racial progress even as old stereotypes about illicit eroticism persist.