Sociology: family and relationships

Small children are regularly captivated by programmes made especially for them - ranging from classics like Sesame Street to more recent arrivals such as Blues Clues and Teletubbies .

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

This handbook compiles the most up-to-date research on transnational families.

„Man muß auf der Vieldeutigkeit der verflossenen Tatsachen bestehen“ (Jean-Paul Sartre 1964: 100) Im Kontext der nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme und -herrschaft emigrierten mehr als 400 000 Menschen (vgl.

This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe.

This volume is made up of articles and broadcasts and deals with the conditions and methods of making the British war effort more effective.

Doreen Zillmann untersucht aus soziologischer Perspektive unwahrhaftige Selbstdarstellungen am Partnermarkt „Online-Dating“.

Fatal Denialargues that over the past 150 years, US health authorities' explanations of and interventions into Black infant mortality have been characterized by the biopolitics of racial innocence, a term describing the institutionalized mechanisms in health care and policy that have at once obscured, enabled, and perpetuated systemic infanticide by blaming Black mothers and communities themselves.

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This comprehensive reference views China's welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare.

This book is a vital new resource in the sociological study of family life in the 21st century.

This book draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay attention to siblingship.

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation.

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay.

Children today are growing up in a world of global media.

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

The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world.

In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a critical theoretical perspective on their position and the risks and challenges affecting them.

In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "e;Ontario's most successful rapist trap.

In the 1970s among peoples of the third world migration, paid employment, and urban living had caused changes in domestic economies, in decision making in households, and in the sexual division of labour and power.

All human cultures across time have created rituals, bringing family members together to celebrate, welcome, honor, or mourn.

This authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format.

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Light from the East collates letters between Hon.

Der vierte Band zum Themenbereich Pfadfinden enthält Beiträge zur Biographie des jüdischen Pfadfindergründers Alexander Lion in Deutschland und zu seinem Überleben in der Gestapohaft 1938/39.

Die Verantwortlichen der SED-Diktatur haben alles getan, ihr Land als „Staat der Jugend“ erscheinen zu lassen, der sich rührend um das Wohl der Kinder sorgte.

This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice.

This book draws together analysis of  class, gender, ethnicity and processes of migration in the context of family-school relationships.

This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized parents in the changing welfare states of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States.

Waldpädagogische Angebote in Einrichtungen der Elementarpädagogik erschließen einen einzigartigen Bildungsraum- fast unendlich in den Eindrücken und Bildungsanlässen, unendlich natürlich und nah an menschlichen Lernprozessen.

This study of children's participation in decisions about their care draws on recent work in sociology and anthropology, psychology and legal philosophy in order to understand this challenging area of social life.

Parental participation has long been recognized as a positive factor in children's education.

In a neo-liberal era concerned with discourses of responsible individualism and the 'selfie', there is an increased interest in personal lives and experiences.

Private companies are increasingly involved with the security of domestic violence victims.

Children's and young people's right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In diesem Buch, das sich in einer unkomplizierten und erfrischenden Sprache direkt an Eltern wendet, erzählt Erik Sigsgaard, wie das Familienleben mit weniger Schimpfen gelebt werden kann.

An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through todayThe winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives the bedroom.

Im Zuge der Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau, der eigenständigen sozialen Sicherung von Frauen und der Berücksichtigung des Wertes von Kindererziehung für den langfristigen Erhalt der umlagefinanzierten Rentenversicherung sahen seit den 1980er Jahren immer mehr Sozialsysteme Europas die Anerkennung von Kindererziehung in der Alterssicherung vor.

From a public health perspective, motor vehicle crashes are among the most serious problems facing teenagers.