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.
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 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 analyses the relationship between youth and participation, looking specifically at those repertories of involvement that are commonly clustered under the concept of "e;unconventional political participation"e;.
This book provides a detailed ethnographic account of the lives and experiences of a group of male, university-based academy cricketers transitioning into (and away from) professional sport.
There have long been doubts within social work about the viability of reconciling participatory practice with the statutory power that comes hand-in-hand with child protection work.
This book contains empirical research from established and emerging scholars who draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young people's sense of identities and belongings in diverse international contexts.
The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century.
Over recent years, the nature of politics in nations around the globe has become increasingly heated and polarized, with much of this change being attributed to a variety of sources, including news outlets, online websites, social media, and various forms of communication technology.
This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development.
Der Altersübergang, der wesentlich vom Austritt aus dem Berufsleben und dem Eintritt in die Nacherwerbsphase geprägt ist, ist eine Umbruchphase, in der so manche Lebensordnung neu ausgerichtet werden muss.
Die Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) zeichnet sich durch interdisziplinäre Zugänge sowie durch die Möglichkeit vielfältiger theoretischer und methodologischer Modifikationen in unterschiedlichen Forschungsfeldern aus, wie in den ersten beiden Bänden zur wissenssoziologischen Diskursforschung dokumentiert ist.
Der Band fasst aktuelle Theorieperspektiven und Forschungsbefunde zur Bedeutung von Körpern, Objekten und Räumen in der interdisziplinären Kindheitsforschung zusammen.
Carina Fischer untersucht Strukturen und Modi der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Allgemeinen Sozialen Diensten und Kindertageseinrichtungen nach § 8a SGB VIII.
This introductory book provides an insight into sociological life course research and informs about its theoretical assumptions, analytical concepts and main results.
Das Thema Health Literacy, für das sich im deutschen Sprachgebrauch der Begriff der Gesundheitskompetenz etabliert hat, hat in der jüngeren Vergangenheit eine spürbare Aufwertung in Praxis, Politik und Forschung erfahren.
In dem Band werden die Zusammenhänge von Sozialraum, Migration und Integration systematisch aus theoretischen und empirischen Perspektiven in ihren Interdependenzen beschrieben.
Dieses Buch enthält eine Vielzahl von leicht umsetzbaren Interventionen der systemischen Familientherapie – sie sind an den Bedürfnissen der Klienten orientiert und kultivieren eine Wechselseitigkeit der Beteiligten.
Aus der Perspektive qualitativ rekonstruktiver Forschung versammelt das Herausgeberwerk Beiträge zur Verortung von Bildungsorientierungen in Theorie und Empirie.
In Beiträgen, die sich mit dem Bevölkerungsrückgang in der Bundesrepublikbeschäftigen, liegt der Fokus regelmäßig auf Frauen und ihrer „Fertilität“,also der Potenz oder auch Entscheidung, Kinder (nicht) zu bekommen.
