Sociology: family and relationships

This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory developed within Death Studies.

This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals.

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time.

This edited volume presents unique insights on sibling relationships in adulthood in the early 21st century, focusing on three themes: relations beyond childhood and school years; factors shaping social support provision between siblings; and changes in family life and how these impact sibling relations.

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity.

This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde's interest in children's culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children's rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date.

This books examines the increased prominence of children's rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system.

This edited volume sheds light on the lives of young people in various central and peripheral regions of Russia, including youth belonging to different ethnic and religious groups and who have differing views on contemporary politics.

This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds.

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions.

This book offers an innovative conceptual and methodological approach to one of the most significant health and wellbeing challenges for contemporary youth: body image.

This book focuses beyond the bully-victim dyad to highlight how bullying commonly unfolds within a complex system that involves many individuals interacting with one another.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This volume provides a unique perspective on elderly working-class West Indian migrants in the UK, particularly examining how they negotiate their sense of belonging.

This book explores the reality of ageing and old age from the perspectives of the individual and society.

This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements.

This book explores how play is perceived and practiced through the lens of various different professional and international contexts.

This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father.

This collection explores mobile childhoods: from Latvia and Estonia to Finland; from Latvia to the United Kingdom; from Russia to Finland; and cyclical mobility by the Roma between Romania and Finland.

In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood.

This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research.

This book examines the emotional, micro-situated dynamics of status inclusion/exclusion that people produce while caring for others by focusing, in particular, on non-conventional families.

This book examines how young people in Europe construct their political identities.

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective.

This volume honors the lifetime achievement of distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 96th birthday.

This edited collection outlines the issues central to youth engagement in research and social innovation.

This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families.

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course.

This book critically interrogates how young people are introduced to landscapes through environmental education, outdoor recreation, and youth-led learning, drawing on diverse examples of green, blue, outdoor, or natural landscapes.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region.

The volume is the first to take a life-course approach to the study of domestic work in Italy.

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.

This book explores the educational experiences of young male Somali students in British schools.

This book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts.

This book examines the relation between the phenomenon of globalization, changes in the lifeworld of young people and the development of specific youth cultures.

This book takes a radically new approach to the well-worn topic of children's relationship with the media, avoiding the "e;risks and benefits"e; paradigm while examining very young children's interactions with film and television.

How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment?

This sourcebook is an unparalleled resource in the field of family science.

This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives.

Adopting a longitudinal approach, this book examines the dynamics of union and family formation in France and its effects on various aspects of life, such as employment, intergenerational transfers, etc.

This volume draws together scholarly contributions from diverse, yet interlinking disciplinary fields, with the aim of critically examining the value of narrative inquiry in understanding the everyday lives of children and young people in diverse spaces and places, including the home, recreational spaces, communities and educational spaces.

This book details a study of sign language brokering that is carried out by deaf and hearing people who grow up using sign language at home with deaf parents, known as heritage signers.

This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji.

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of  'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families.

This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum.