Sociology of the Family Books

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   Family Life in Adolescence

   By Patricia Noller, Sharon Atkin

   This book provides an understanding of the kinds of family environments that produce productive, well-adjusted young people who can make a worthwhile contribution to the society in which they live. Based on extensive research conducted over the last twenty years, the authors investigate what...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-47032-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Children’s Food Practices in Families and Institutions

   Edited by Samantha Punch, Ian McIntosh, Ruth Emond

   This book brings together recent UK studies into children’s experiences and practices around food in a range of contexts, linking these to current policy and practice perspectives. It reveals that food works not only on a material level as sustenance but also on a symbolic level as something that...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59455-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia: Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions

   Edited by Gavin Jones, Terence Hull, Maznah Mohamad

   Various forms of partnering - officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships - are crucial in the formation of families throughout the world. In Southeast Asia, marriage is the normal form of partnering, as contrasted with, say, the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-61733-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Life Course Perspectives on Military Service

   Edited by Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London

   This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of the literature on specific topics related to military service and its life course consequences. It demonstrates how the military, like higher educational and penal institutions, is a critical social institution that can...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87941-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Transnationalism, Migration and Marriage

   Edited by Katherine Charsley

   Transnational migration based on marriage has long contributed substantially to international mobility and has represented a major source of transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labour migration, marriage has until recent years been a...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58653-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Gender, Violence, and Law

   By Melanie Randall

   The law has been the major site of advocacy, reform efforts and social change in relation to a variety of complex social problems. Gendered violence is one of them. After nearly three decades of advocacy and law reform, what can we understand about current legal responses to, and engagement with,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87117-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence: The Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law

   By Ronagh McQuigg

   This book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-58226-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: An International Perspective

   Edited by Louise Holt

   This edited collection brings together international experts from the vibrant and growing field of geographies of children, youth and families. Designed as an introduction to the topic, this book provides an overview of current conceptual and theoretical debates surrounding geographies of...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-56384-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation

   Edited by Richard Ronald, Allison Alexy

   In the Japanese language the word ‘ie’ denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society - have been subject to significant changes in recent years. This book...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-48867-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Family in the Middle East: Ideational change in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia

    Edited by Kathryn M. Yount, Hoda Rashad

    This book examines, in comparative perspective, the different ideals about family and society and how they have impacted on real family life across a number of countries in the Middle East....

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-61341-5 | Paperback (Routledge)