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.

This impressive new collection focuses on the effects of the globalization process on late-midlife workers and the exit from employment a relationship that has up to now mostly been neglected in social science literature on aging and employment. Globalization has... Lees meer.

Originally published in 1979 this was the first text to be concerned explicitly with the analysis of forms of kin and non-kin sociability. Its aim was to compare and contrast the different ways in which sociability was patterned in modern life at the time.... Lees meer.

This timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children. Offering academic insight and practical recommendations this will be key reading for researchers policymakers practitioners and students inter... Lees meer.

School-age children s everyday lives are changing as they are immersed in digital leisure and organised activities. However our current understandings of these transitions are race-blind. Presenting the first study of middle-class British Indian families this book rev... Lees meer.

What can sociology tell us about our personal lives families and intimate relationships. This book explains how key theoretical perspectives and relevant contemporary research in the discipline can shed new light on even the most familiar areas of our everyday worlds.... Lees meer.

Published in 1996 this book advocates and persuasively exemplifies a qualitative sociology of childhood spoken repeatedly through children s voices. After a long period of dormancy interest in the sociology of childhood became a focus of attention and scholarly inter... Lees meer.

This handbook compiles the most up-to-date research on transnational families.It employs a dialogue between classical approaches and cutting-edge directions in transnational family research to identify continuities and changes in terms of socioeconomic disparities and a... Lees meer.

This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the UK drawing on the thought of Foucault and Althusser to examine the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance... Lees meer.