2013 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Includes two studies. Fun in Games and Role Distance. Erving Goffman 1922 - 1982 was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer and is considered o... Lees meer.

Why is love taken for granted as a part of human experience. And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us. This book aims to find out tracing the intellectual history of sexual love from the ancient Greeks to the modern day.Erotic Love in So... Lees meer.

Focusing on Ghana this book explores the intersection of dominant children s rights principles with lived realities. Challenging one-dimensional portrayals it advocates for more holistic approaches to the study of children s lives and children s rights realization in... Lees meer.

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Drawing from longitudinal research this book shows how the perspectives of people who have been in care can help us redefine the concept of family. Through a narrative analysis of the complexity of family lives the author challenges the idea that some families are or... Lees meer.

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The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in getting ahead. Social capital isn t just about the connections in networks but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges. This v... Lees meer.

2023 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their loved ones Living in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment your son could be ar... Lees meer.

A groundbreaking book uncovers the . . . indispensable role that children play as co-contributors to the household economy of our most vulnerable families. Zulema Valdez author of Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream Street food markets have become w... Lees meer.

There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse maltreatment and trauma. Th... Lees meer.

With a focus on nine different national contexts this book explores contemporary family diversity considering the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and family-friendly policies and shedding light on the ways... Lees meer.

Families and Households Revision Notes for AS and A Level Sociology. Fully updated for the 2015 Specification. I use these notes with my students produced for the AS Sociology 7191 Module. The notes Cover the following topics. 50 Pages of extensive AS Sociology revisi... Lees meer.

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Written by an international team of experts this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships partnering and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social economic cultural and technological change. Covers a broad range of topics includi... Lees meer.

This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations using biological psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations.... Lees meer.