Illustrating the fascinating intersections of social media and new kinship this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of families using the world s largest sperm bank and the development of new extended families involving large numbers of donor siblings.... Lees meer.

The book takes us through the lives of children highlighting key issues for babies for toddlers and for older children as they grow and learn. Whether it is understanding children s emotions working with families or understanding the challenges of climate change t... Lees meer.

This book examines anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as social processes drawing on interviews with white middle-class women that reveal the influence of family and cultural messages regarding thinness. It considers the agency these women use to cope with life stre... Lees meer.

Originally published in 1983 the origin of this book is to be found in C. C. Harris s Changing conceptions of the relation between family and societal form in Scase. Industrial Society. Class Cleavage and Control . In that article Harris attempted to relate tradi... Lees meer.

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and the home environment in its material and relational dimension with individual and social happiness in the context of current changes. The theme of happine... Lees meer.

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This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course what we don t know and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people s lives. It demonstrates that the m... Lees meer.

Ann Oakley analysed the perceptions of 40 urban housewives around housework their feelings of monotony and fragmentation the length of their working week the importance of standards and routines and their attitudes to different household tasks. This classic book pav... Lees meer.

This book focuses on issues of family work and gender with a focus on gender inequality. Women are disadvantaged in both paid and domestic work due in large part to being primarily responsible for duties within the domestic sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerba... Lees meer.

This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Matthys approaches social mobility as a trajectory of identity construction in which different classes are integrated and uses the notion of identity cap... Lees meer.

Using a bio-communities of practice framework this thought-provoking empirical analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing phenomenon of milk sharing in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding i... Lees meer.

In the absence of public provision many governments rely on the market to meet childcare demand. But who are the actors shaping this market. What work do they do to marketize care. And what does it mean for how childcare is provided. Based on an innovative theoretic... Lees meer.

An important new collection on the nature and consequences of bullying School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs yet most of the research done on school bullying has been from psychologists. The S... Lees meer.

This volume examines the effects of incarceration on the families and children of prisoners with a view to gaining a better understanding of our thinking about punishment and the workings of criminal justice systems. Every year millions of families are affected by th... Lees meer.

Honorable Mention Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award given by the Latino a Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association 2023 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often... Lees meer.