Sociology: family and relationships

This book presents a critical analysis and examination of the major theories and social issues in the social construction of aging and death.

This book considers the impact of digital media and technology on lived experience for young people in foster care.

Social workers need to work with fathers across many service systems, but lack guidance on how to do so, and most engagement, assessment, and intervention work for family-serving systems is mother- and child-focused.

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 focuses on the literacy beliefs and practices of parents and children from Asian and Latinx heritage backgrounds.

This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society.

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.

Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account and analysis of the love, support, and advocacy involved in parenting trans and gender diverse children.

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.

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.

Both nationally and internationally, the south Indian state of Kerala has been an object of study for its matrilineal kinship organization among some communities, as well as its achievements in education, literacy, and life expectancy for women against a weak economic base.

This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children's rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic.

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

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

This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement.

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.

Collectively, the research presented in this book revisits, challenges, and rearticulates taken-for-granted wellbeing conceptualisations, policies and intervention frameworks, as critical discussion of wellbeing in relation to children and young people from a variety of socio-cultural, political, and economic settings is still relatively sparse.

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 volume explores methods for studying child maltreatment in the context of neighborhoods and communities, given their importance in the lives of families.

This edited volume discusses and analyses the impact of neoliberal policies and ideologies on public and private care practices in Nordic, Central, and East European welfare states.

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

Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago.

This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects.

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

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts.

This book analyzes how the increasing number of same-sex couples is changing the traditional concepts of family and parenthood, and how these changes affect the psychological studies of family, couple relationships and human development.

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon.

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 book examines resilience in childhood, focusing on positive functioning and development, often in the face of everyday difficulties and adversities.

This book examines belonging as a key protective factor for enhancing resilience for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.