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Innovations in Youth Research by S. Heath 9780230278493 [USED COPY]
RRP: £89.99£4.62This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.NICOLA ALLETT Research Associate at the... -
Raising Children: Emerging Needs, Modern Risks, and Social Responses by Jill Duerr Berrick 9780195310122 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£4.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Handbook of Marriage in the Arab World Ahmed Aref 9789819776191
RRP: £44.99£38.24This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it provides a framework for the... -
Red Pockets: An Offering Alice Mah 9780241608319
RRP: £20.00£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241608319Author Alice MahFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 400g -
Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Identity, Community, and Change Manase Kudzai Chiweshe 9781032893372
RRP: £135.00£114.75The book provides a social analysis of marriage in contemporary Zimbabwe, highlighting how the institution is changing and evolving in the face of societal factors such as globalisation, technology, increased migration, religious plurality and shifting... -
Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France Andrea Mansker 9781501778063
RRP: £48.00£40.80Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France uncovers the unexplored history of matrimonial agents, their novel marketing tactics, and the rise of personal advertisements to track the commercialization of marriage in nineteenth-century... -
Retirement Migrants and Dependency: Caring for Sun Seekers Inés Calzada 9783031691218
RRP: £119.99£101.99This book tells the story of what happens when the “adventure” of living in Spain turns complicated due to the emergence of care needs derived from loss of autonomy. It investigates the care strategies of retirement migrants that must navigate a foreign... -
Family Studies Anuja Agrawal 9780198930693
RRP: £119.00£101.15Within the social, political, and economic contexts existing in modern-day India, family is neither a simple remnant of tradition nor a domain merely representing insulated private lives. Rather, it is implicated in malleable yet overpowering structures,... -
Siblings and Sociology Katherine Davies 9781526182562
RRP: £20.00£17.00This book draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay attention to siblingship. Focussing on four themes central to the discipline of... -
Skipped Generation Households in Nigeria Joshua Oyeniyi Aransiola 9783031650338
RRP: £119.99£101.99This volume unpacks the phenomenon of skipped generation households—where children live with their grandparents and without their parents—as they become an increasingly common family dynamic in Nigeria and globally. The skipped generation household's... -
Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences Jenny Björklund 9783031666964
RRP: £44.99£38.24This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and... -
Single Mothers in Thailand: Women, Motherhood, and Going it All Alone Herbary Cheung 9783031576546
RRP: £109.99£109.55This book investigates a range of major sociological debates and policy studies related to gender, family, marriage, health, intersectionality, and social exclusion of single mothers in Thailand. It does so by analyzing ethnographic data gained from... -
Wedding Cakes and Cultural History Simon Charsley 9781032342771
RRP: £27.99£24.28First published in 1992, Wedding Cakes and Cultural History is a unique contribution to the anthropology of food, tracing the fascinating history of wedding cakes, from late medieval feasts and rites, through the Victorian wedding breakfast and into the... -
The Care Dilemma: How to Care Enough in the Age of Sex Equality David Goodhart 9781800753617
RRP: £25.00£21.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Companion to Biological Anthropology Clark Spencer Larsen 9781119828082
RRP: £37.99£32.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119828082Author Clark Spencer LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd -
A Companion to Anthropological Genetics Dennis H. O'Rourke 9781119096627
RRP: £37.95£32.26Explore the latest research in anthropological genetics and understand the genome’s role in cultural and social development A Companion to Anthropological Genetics illustrates the role of genetic analysis in advancing the modern study of human origins,... -
Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 Nicholas H. Wolfinger 9780199324323
RRP: £32.99£28.04In 1980, single mother families were five times more likely than two-parent families to be poor. Forty years later, single-mother families are still five times more likely to be poor. How can this be given the vast increases in education and employment... -
The Two-Parent Privilege: How the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we can do about it Melissa S. Kearney 9781800753761
RRP: £12.99£11.04In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution’s decline has led to a host of economic woes. Eschewing the religious and values-based arguments that have long dominated... -
Handbuch Soziologie des Alter(n)s Klaus R. Schroeter 9783658094867
RRP: £67.99£57.79Altern ist ein sowohl biologischer als auch sozialer Prozess, der sich über den gesamten Lebenslauf erstreckt und wesentlich durch gesellschaftliche Einflüsse geprägt ist. Möglicherweise beginnt der Alternsprozess bei Geburt und endet mit dem Tod eines... -
Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships Abigail Ocobock 9780226836263
RRP: £21.00£17.85A cutting-edge study of marriage’s transformative effects on same-sex relationships. It is no secret that marriage rates in the United States are at an all-time low. Despite this significant decline, marriage remains a profound institutional force that... -
Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care Kathryn E. Goldfarb 9781978841420
RRP: £36.00£30.60Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing... -
Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care Kathryn E. Goldfarb 9781978841437
RRP: £134.00£113.90Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing... -
Caring is Sharing?: Couples Navigating Parental Leave at the Transition to Parenthood Katherine Twamley 9781800087408
RRP: £45.00£38.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087408Author Katherine TwamleyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Caring is Sharing?: Couples Navigating Parental Leave at the Transition to Parenthood Katherine Twamley 9781800087415
RRP: £25.00£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087415Author Katherine TwamleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
BrAsian Family Practices and Reflexivity: Behind the Boxing Ropes Izram Chaudry 9781032558363
RRP: £130.00£110.50Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community... -
Gender Imbalance and Marriage Squeeze in China Quanbao Jiang 9781032560960
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book presents a comprehensive analysis of China's unbalanced sex ratio at birth and marriage market, and the implications of these phenomena for population development and families.China's persistently high sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the early... -
Transnational Family Relations of German Emigrants Marcel Erlinghagen 9783658445423
RRP: £79.99£70.19Drawing on unique data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), the present book comprises empirical studies on various aspects of recent German emigrants’ transnational relationships to core family members, specifically intimate... -
Dissent with Love: Ambiguity, Affect and Transformation in South Asia Parul Bhandari 9781032444376
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulations of dissenting love in contemporary South Asia including negotiations with parents to assert choice of... -
Jugendsoziologie: Einführung in Grundlagen und Theorien Albert Scherr 9783658436407
RRP: £27.99£23.79Die bereits in zehnter Auflage erscheinende Einführung vermittelt in verständlicher Form die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der soziologischen sowie ausgewählte Aspekte der psychologischen und der pädagogischen Jugendforschung. Im Rahmen der behandelten Themen... -
Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus Amy Lutz 9781625348364
RRP: £28.95£24.61When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly expected to become their children’s teachers. Despite this new arrangement, older gender norms largely... -
Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus Amy Lutz 9781625348371
RRP: £85.00£72.25When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly expected to become their children’s teachers. Despite this new arrangement, older gender norms largely... -
Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon Lara Deeb 9781503640054
RRP: £108.00£91.80Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a "mixed" couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism. Still, Lebanon has the most interreligious marriages per capita in... -
The Name of the Mother: Writing Illegitimacy Marie Maclean 9781032265568
RRP: £27.99£24.28In this original and highly accomplished study, first published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy.The case studies which Maclean examines fall...