Sociology: family and relationships

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

This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults.

This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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 provides an insight into girls' cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls' dressing in Singapore.

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

This book illustrates the multifaceted applications of clinical psychology in multi-cultural contexts.

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 examines how emerging forms of citizenship are shaped by young people in digital spaces as way of making sense of contemporary Chinese society, forming new identities, and negotiating social and political participation.

This book discusses the intersections between culture, context, and aging.

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 examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring.

This book looks at how young people get attracted to the Far Right, especially young white men.

This book examines the use of violence by children and young people in family settings and proposes specialised and age-appropriate responses to these children and young people It interrogates the adequacy and effectiveness of current service and justice system responses, including analysis of police, court and specialist service responses.

This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on 'family' and 'kinship' but also looking beyond these categories.

Ein praktischer Papa Ratgeber, der Vätern hilft, eine tiefe und dauerhafte Bindung zu ihren Söhnen aufzubauen.

Dieser praktische Ratgeber begleitet werdende Väter durch alle wichtigen Phasen - von der Schwangerschaft bis zum ersten Lebensjahr des Kindes.

Das Handbuch ist zu einem Standardwerk für Theorie und Praxis der Erziehungshilfe geworden und hat als Lehrbuch Eingang gefunden in Ausbildung und Studium für sozialpädagogische Berufe.

'This book isn't just a guide; it's a lifeline' Shirley Ballas, head judge, Strictly Come Dancing, and ambassador for CALM and Suicide&CoWorldwide, suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people, and numbers continue to increase.

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 explores the population development challenges in China.

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

Informed by the social-ecological framework, this book focuses on the development of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) in urban China.

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring.

This book discusses emerging issues concerning ageing in India, describes the multi-layered vulnerabilities of older adults in the context of health care and caregiving, and explores social, legal and economic perspectives.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the declining Japanese population, using statistical analysis to establish the significance of municipal power using demographic data on national, regional, prefectural and municipal levels.

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

This volume provides a key analysis of Asian children's literature and film and creates a dialogue between East and West and between the cultures from which they emerge, within the complex symbiosis of their local, national and transnational frameworks.

The book provides an interesting analysis of the time-use data to examine the extent to which active ageing is occurring in India.

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.

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 explores the affective and relational lives of young people in diverse urban spaces.

The book approaches the topic of disability, inclusion and inclusive education in a holistic way including both academic and psycho-social perspectives.

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.

This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households, examining ongoing changes in Chinese society and economy through the lens of the situation of rural families in China.

This book illustrates the multifaceted applications of clinical psychology in multi-cultural contexts.

This collection of papers examines key ideas in cultural-historical approaches to children's learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur.

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.

This book invites readers to both reassess and reconceptualize definitions of childhood and pedagogy by imagining the possibilities - past, present, and future - provided by the aesthetic turn to science fiction.

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 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 brings together Sociologists, Computer Scientists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people.

This book presents a unique exploration of common myths about autism by examining these myths through the perspectives of autistic individuals.

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

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

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