Sociology of the Family

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution, and of politics within the family...

This book contributes to cross-world dialogue on Childhood Studies by focusing on children’s relationships across Majority and Minority World contexts. It explores the ways that social, material and spatial relations can assist in reconsidering the opportunities and limitations of children and young..

This book examines children living in adverse conditions in Vietnam, India, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Here Lieten addresses the idea of children as self-conscious actors, highlighting issues of child agency, the structural constraints to that agency, and the consequences that th..

This book explores the power and significance of food and food practices within people’s daily lives at home, in care and at school. _x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the Children's Geographies...

This book explores the power and significance of food and food practices within people’s daily lives at home, in care and at school. _x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the Children's Geographies...

First published in 1998, this volume explores the connections between the rises in consumerism and the number of married women in paid work, demonstrating how the gendered expectations of consumerism became motivating factors for women to join the workforce...

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues – childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social networking, vi..

In this timely book, Lyn Craig employs large-scale quantitative time-use data to provide a unique and comprehensive account of how parenthood affects daily life within households. Suggesting an explanation for why fertility rates are dramatically dropping, this book makes a significant contribution ..

Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving goes beyond the recovery narrative to create a new queer literature of investigation, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six stories illuminate the reality of growing up in fear, struggling to rebuild lives damaged by sexual, physical, and/or emoti..

Explores how family structures, employment relationship and family policy are conceptualised in individual EC member states. Draws upon material from ESRC, CNAF (Paris) and the European Commission DGV...

Explores how family structures, employment relationship and family policy are conceptualised in individual EC member states. Draws upon material from ESRC, CNAF (Paris) and the European Commission DGV...

Family Configurations develops current scholarship on families and intimate lives by demonstrating that family relationships, far from being fluid and inconsequential, are more structured and committed than ever. By applying social network methods to uncover the relational patterns of contemporary f..