Sociology: family and relationships

This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play.

This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and "e;chore"e; activities in daily life, and how they are managed in practice.

This textbook uses cases in family law to illustrate both traditional philosophical problems in the law as well as problems that are unique to family law.

This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood.

This edited collection explores the intersectionality of childhood and disability.

This book considers the responses of states to migrant girls who are separated from family and enter state care systems as unaccompanied or trafficked young people.

This book provides successful models for field-based learning experiences in Family Life Education.

This book presents a range of innovative analytical frameworks that can be used to approach the complexities of children's understandings and experiences of well-being in a locally oriented, context-sensitive and multi-nationally comparative way.

This book explores care-leavers' access to their personal records.

This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity.

This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis.

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.

This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century.

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 authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format.

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 handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people.

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.