Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recognition of Aboriginal 'traditional owners'.
The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role of the family in society.
This book explores how and if the mandate for children to worship in schools can be justified within the context of declining church attendance and increasing nonreligious identification in British society.
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 book depicts the evolution of Singapore's family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges.
Die Versorgung alter Menschen in stationären Einrichtungen scheint nicht an Bedeutung zu verlieren, eher zeichnet sich für die Zukunft mit zunehmendem Anteil von hochaltrigen Menschen das Gegenteil ab.
This book follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years, documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children.
Der Band untersucht den Salafismus als Phänomen einer spezifischen Jugendkultur - die nicht nur auf Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund zielt und befasst sich mit ihrer Attraktivität sowie ihrer medialen und subkulturellen Mustern.
Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.
The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century.
Hegemonic Masculinity, Caste, and the Body investigates the intricate interplay between masculinities, space, and identity within Indian Punjab's Jat Sikh community.
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.
This edited volume investigates the effects of shifting configurations and conceptualizations of the experience and meaning of home as it is embodied in early childhood care and education (ECCE).
First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott's book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies.
Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young people's pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives.
This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between community resilience and family resilience, identifying contributing factors on the micro-, meso-, and macro-level.
Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emotional experience of families in the aftermath of a homicide.
This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.
Annika Göbel-Reinhardt und Nicole Lundbeck widmen sich einem hochaktuellen Thema der frühpädagogischen Praxis: Erziehungs- und Bildungspartnerschaften.
This book presents the findings of a recent interview-based study of how 28 young adults living in Melbourne, Australia viewed and related to both the personal and societal future.
This book seeks to provide a deeper understanding of Muslim migrant fathers' experiences of home-school cooperation in Danish schools by identifying and contradicting a phenomenon of "e;mistrusted masculinity.
This comprehensive handbook presents the major philosophical perspectives on the nature, prospects, problems and social context of age and aging in an era of dramatically increasing life-expectancy.
The Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women's sexual and reproductive health.
