Catálogo de libros: Sociología de la familia y las relaciones sociales

2664 Catálogo de libros: Sociología de la familia y las relaciones sociales

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  • Ageing with Dignity in Hong Kong and Asia
    This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia. It responds to the needs of an increasing ageing population that has to deal with related health needs in long-term care, community health and social services, particularly for chronic conditions and psychosocia...
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    46,91 €

  • Parenting Trans and Non-binary Children
    Magdalena Mikulak
    Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account and analysis of the love, support, and advocacy involved in parenting trans and gender diverse children. Mikulak explores how parents negotiate and challenge cis-normativity to make familial, educational, and healthcare settings livable for their trans and ge...
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    132,78 €

  • Parenting Trans and Non-binary Children
    Magdalena Mikulak
    Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account and analysis of the love, support, and advocacy involved in parenting trans and gender diverse children. Mikulak explores how parents negotiate and challenge cis-normativity to make familial, educational, and healthcare settings livable for their trans and ge...
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    48,50 €

  • South American Childhoods
    This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisa...
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    195,49 €

  • Social Stratification in an Aging Society with Low Fertility
    Sawako Shirahase
    This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society. It is unique for its examination of social inequality in relation to declining fertility and an aging population. Japan is the most aged society in the world: according to the Statistics Bureau of Japan, people who are aged 65 and above comprised 29.1% of the country’s total population in 20...
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    134,69 €

  • Social Stratification in an Aging Society with Low Fertility
    Sawako Shirahase
    This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society. It is unique for its examination of social inequality in relation to declining fertility and an aging population. Japan is the most aged society in the world: according to the Statistics Bureau of Japan, people who are aged 65 and above comprised 29.1% of the country’s total population in 20...
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    48,15 €

  • Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States
    Richard J. Petts / Richard Petts
    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. ...
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    241,38 €

  • What It Means When I Say ’I Do’
    Cindy David
    Have you ever considered that love is empty without promises and that your understanding of what these promises are holds the key to building a strong, loving and joy-filled marriage?What It Means When I Say I Do offers an extraordinary and refreshing guide into strengthening your commitment-all within a span of an hour’s reading!In this book, Cindy David provides you with:A ...
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    13,14 €

  • Close Relations
    This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ’family’ and ’kinship’ but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are ...
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    158,78 €

  • Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order
    Oláyínká Àkànle
    The second of two volumes filling a gap in the literature in understanding and responding to this grand challenge, this edited collection focuses particularly on the impact and complex consequences of migration, youth experiences and the functioning of digital spaces, and the shaping of youth identity through exposure to both. ...
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    136,16 €

  • Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order
    Oláyínká Àkànle
    The first volume of Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order focuses particularly on contexts of economic, educational and governance concerns that confront youths globally, the complex consequences of these issues, their experience of exclusion, and sustainable pathways forward. ...
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    136,06 €

  • Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
    This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes...
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    168,73 €

  • Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
    This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes...
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    47,69 €

  • Sociological Life Course Research
    Matthias Wingens
    This introductory book provides an insight into sociological life course research and informs about its theoretical assumptions, analytical concepts and main results.Sociological life course research - like biographical research - has developed into an independent and fruitful field of research since the end of the 1960s. It is true that half a century earlier, in their famous ...
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    48,17 €

  • Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China
    Longtao He
    This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring. In his own attempt to develop a localized methodology, the author considers identifying similarities between Chinese philosophies...
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    170,80 €

  • Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society
    Alejandro Klein
    This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It carefully offers a series of opinions that attempt to illuminate the fact that the aging society goes beyond aging and includes a series of changes in terms of family, social ties, relationships, and the way human beings perceive society. The book contributes su...
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    48,40 €

  • Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society
    Alejandro Klein
    This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It carefully offers a series of opinions that attempt to illuminate the fact that the aging society goes beyond aging and includes a series of changes in terms of family, social ties, relationships, and the way human beings perceive society. The book contributes su...
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    145,41 €

  • Unveiling the Gender Paradox
    Antony Palackal / Lekha N.B.
    Both nationally and internationally, the south Indian state of Kerala has been an object of study for its matrilineal kinship organization among some communities, as well as its achievements in education, literacy, and life expectancy for women against a weak economic base. Nonetheless, scholars have drawn attention to a paradox in Kerala’s model of development, namely women’s ...
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    145,07 €

  • Unveiling the Gender Paradox
    Antony Palackal / Lekha N.B.
    Both nationally and internationally, the south Indian state of Kerala has been an object of study for its matrilineal kinship organization among some communities, as well as its achievements in education, literacy, and life expectancy for women against a weak economic base. Nonetheless, scholars have drawn attention to a paradox in Kerala’s model of development, namely women’s ...
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    48,50 €

  • Everyday Greed
    This collection examines how greed should be understood and appraised. Roundly condemned by virtually all religions, greed receives mixed appraisals in the domains of business and economics. The volume examines these mixed appraisals and how they fare in light of their implications for greed in our everyday world. Greed in children is uniformly criticized by parents, other adul...
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    208,43 €

  • Tribes of Western India
    Dhananjay Kumar / Lancy Lobo
    This volume presents an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses their internal social organization consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks. ...
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    240,84 €

  • Family Burden Coefficient in China
    Tian Feng
    This book is a quantitative study of families in China that focuses specifically on the family burden coefficient. The aim is to provide a simple and accurate calculus for describing the level of family burden and thus provide guidance for policy. ...
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    268,40 €

  • Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities
    Young people are very often the driving forces of political participation that aims to change societies and political systems. Rather than being depoliticized, young people in different national contexts are giving rise to alternative politics. Drawing on original survey data collected in 2018, this edited volume provides a detailed analysis of youth participation in nine Europ...
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    195,61 €

  • Thinking about Belonging in Youth Studies
    Anita Harris / Hernan Cuervo / Johanna Wyn
    This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously divergent approaches to youth studies, its pervasiveness in the field has led to criticism that it means both everyth...
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    158,69 €

  • Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film
    Denise McNulty Norton
    This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father. The films find resolution to these conflicts through a re-gendering of parenting as relationship. In their creation of a ’pure’ fatherhood that is valorised as authentic...
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    171,18 €

  • Involving Methods in Youth Research
    This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research. Chapters give special attention to power issues and dilemmas concerning young people’s and researchers’ involvement in research processes. The collection brings together perspectives of authors from throughout Nordic countries, all with comprehensive experien...
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    210,05 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration
    David Cairns
    This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement. The collection features over 30 theoretically and empirically-based discussions of the mea...
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    242,15 €

  • Non-Binary Family Configurations
    This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds. It brings together stories from non-binary families across continents and cultures and recenters care as a foundational value for creating familial ties. This volume therefore addresses a gap in the literature concerning non-binary family configurations by going beyond the legal battle for...
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    169,82 €

  • Affective intimacies
    This cutting-edge edited collection provides a novel terrain for rethinking intimacies through the lens of affect theories. ...
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    157,67 €

  • Agents of Social Change
    Sung H. Bauta
    This book goes where no other work has gone. It refuses to conform to the conventional descriptions of the realities of widows in Africa. Thus, rather than approach the issue of widowhood from the vantage point of what society can do for widows, the book considers what widows can do for society.Christian widows in northern Nigeria are defying the restrictions assigned to their ...
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    23,19 €


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