Sociology: family and relationships

The second edition of this successful handbook, edited by well-known experts in this field, includes core questions in the field of child abuse and neglect.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams.

This book offers a nuanced way to conceptualise South Asian Muslim families' experiences of disability within the UK.

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.

This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting.

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 edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research.

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 book examines international perspectives on intimate partner violence (IPV).

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 book explores how play is perceived and practiced through the lens of various different professional and international contexts.

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

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 collection shows what happens when facing the inevitable and sometimes expected death of a parent, and how such an ordinary part of life as parental death might connect with the children left behind.

This edited collection brings together two strands of current discussions in gender research through the concept of creativity.

This collection examines how greed should be understood and appraised.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

This brief examines the ways in which sociocultural characteristics and contexts intersect to create varying dimensions of social advantage and inequality that, in turn, affect and organize professional relationships in educational and therapeutic settings.

This Brief focuses on children with incarcerated mothers, a growing and vulnerable population.

This book engages with the ongoing question of why many girls stop doing sport and physical activity in their teenage years.

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 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 volume advocates for justice in language rights through its explorations of bilingualism in family therapy, from the perspectives of eighteen languages identified by the authors: Black Talk/Ebonics/Slang, Farsi, Fenglish, Arabic, Italian, Cantonese Chinese, South Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Chilean Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Colombian Spanglish, Madrileno Spanish, Spanglish, Pocho Spanish, Colloquial Spanish, and English.

This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis.

This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research.

This book examines the relation between the phenomenon of globalization, changes in the lifeworld of young people and the development of specific youth cultures.

Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults.

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.

Young people are very often the driving forces of political participation that aims to change societies and political systems.

This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents.

This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of 'relational vulnerability' through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or 'dependency-work', in the context of the private family.

This book examines the complex impact of prenatal stress and the mechanism of its transmission on children's development and well-being, including prenatal programming, epigenetics, infl ammatory processes, and the brain-gut microbiome.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

This book explores the reality of ageing and old age from the perspectives of the individual and society.

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.

Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood.

This book explores the shifting geographies and contexts of children's play and learning.

This book presents original research examining parents' perspectives on the structure, content and delivery of parenting programmes.

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 book examines the many roles of families in their members' food access, preferences, and consumption.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of Asian families residing in Canada and the United States by portraying and analyzing Asian Canadian and Asian American immigrant families in an integrated yet nuanced way.

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families.

The book examines the relationship between family resilience and recovery from substance use disorders.

This book explores the socially and individually determined nature of media literacy, addressing the central question of how individuals' media activity can be explained and evaluated.

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.