Sociology: family and relationships

This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world's fastest growing economy.

This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries.

This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth.

This book investigates the relationship between social capital and loneliness of older adults living in urban China during the COVID-19 outbreak period.

The book provides insights into the prevailing patriarchal system in rural Pakistan.

This book addresses issues concerning five major categories of disadvantaged children, namely street children, children involved in trafficking, child labor, slum children, and children in institutional care, which apply to a large number of children around the world, including India.

This book provides an overview of multiple facets of ageing and its evolving dynamics in various Indian states.

This book covers the underexplored subject of 'fathering' in India.

Volume 8 explores children and young people's lives at a time of rapid and profound change, through the lens of diverse global processes: economic globalisation, environmental degradation, international development, cultural change, climate change and environmental hazards.

The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of 'safe and accessible places of encounter'.

This volume brings together a range of contributions exploring the diverse ways in which children and young people experience movements, im/mobilities and journeys at different geographical scales and in different socio-spatial contexts.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography.

This book provides an in-depth understanding of how children's development at different stages of their lives interfaces with the kind of education and support they need at school and home.

Marginalisation of Older Men: The Lost Boys focuses on the phenomenon of the marginalisation of older men and the impact of gendered ageing as a pathologic disorder leading to suicide ideation, rather than a celebratory state.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China s rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand.

Children's and young people's geographies is one of the most recent sub-disciplines within human geography.

This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting.

This book addresses the geopolitical notion of the 'Arctic' through the everyday experiences of children.

This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y Australians through the 1990s and 2000s.

Focusing on the two essential factors of the construction of risk, this book presents research revolving around the staging of and the coping with Internet addiction in China.

This book discusses the popularity of temporary and child marriages in Iran and Afghanistan and explores their historical background and the reasons why they still persist today.

This volume addresses children and young people's relationships both within and beyond the context of the family.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of the status of children across society, with special reference to emerging features and measures of child safety, welfare, and overall well-being.

This book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children.

This volume explores the political geographies of children and young people and aims to cement this research area within human geography and beyond.

This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture.

This book explores the population development challenges in China.

This book explores how students in China vary in their understanding of careers upon arrival at college and how these initial differences develop into distinctive career preparation pathways.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia.

This book offers a much-needed analysis of how young people understand and navigate their lives as workers, family members and political actors in an era of uncertainty, Brexit and Trump.

Daily Reflections on LoveThe meaning and magic of love.

This book examines the lives of children and young adults living in residential care systems in Zimbabwe and their unique conceptualization of family.

There can be a lack of understanding of the vulnerable situation of children with disabilities and their families, even among professional caregivers whose mission is to protect the health and wellbeing of these children.

The point of leaving care has been identified as a potentially critical turning point at which services might moderate later outcomes.

The point of leaving care has been identified as a potentially critical turning point at which services might moderate later outcomes.

Cet ouvrage a pour objet l'étude de processus de transmission en situation (post)migratoire.

L’inceste est un problème sociétal.

In Anbetracht der Gesellschaftsanalyse einer individualisierten Welt fordert eine sinnhafte Verortung des persönlichen Lebens den Einzelnen immer mehr Eigenleistung ab.

Dieser Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit Werte-, Normen- und Einstellungswandel in unserer durch zunehmende kulturelle Differenz geprägten Gesellschaft.

Près de trente ans après l'implantation du concept de parentalité, le temps nous semble venu de faire le bilan critique de ce qui s'énonce comme un soutien à la parentalité, un engouement prolifique, un marché structuré de propositions, une véritable politique nationale.

Digital technology is a ''natural technology''-a technology so intuitive as to conceal how and how far it transforms the world.

Digital technology is a ''natural technology''-a technology so intuitive as to conceal how and how far it transforms the world.

Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gender identities.

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Interviewing more than 30 Australia-based authors and thinkers while examining his own journey towards being openly non-monogamous, Poly author Paul Dalgarno pulls together social history and illuminating first-hand accounts of what it means to have 'unconventional' relationships - with others and even with ourselves - in 21st-century Australia.

WINNER of the 2024 LAMBDA Literary award for Best Lesbian Memoir/Biography!

Présente le fonctionnement de l'institution polygamique, le système idéologique qui la fonde et la vie quotidienne des femmes dans le contexte de ce mariage par une approche de l'intérieur.