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

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  • The Lives of Stay-at-Home Fathers
    Professor Catherine Richards Solomon
    An in-depth sociological look at stay-at-home fathers’ familial experiences for a deeper understanding of this new familial role, of men’s evolving masculinity and fathering identities, and the interaction of community and sense of belonging among those considered 'outsiders' ...
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    101,78 €

  • The Natural Family
    Allan C. Carlson
    Sixty years ago, the UN declared the family to be the 'natural and fundamental' unit of society ...
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    240,86 €

  • Mixed Family Life in the UK
    M. Nakamura Lopez / MNakamura Lopez
    This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK. Specifically, the book explores how parents from different backgrounds create a place of belonging for their children, while also negotiating difference and attempting to transmit various aspects of their cultures, including religion, hobbies, language and food to their mixed children. Based on data collected fr...
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    120,13 €

  • Therapeutic Alliances with Families
    Myrna L. Friedlander / Myrna LFriedlander / Valentín Escudero
    This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across theoretical lines, the authors detail special challenges, empirically-supported st...
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    171,65 €

  • Strangers to Spouses
    Binu Edathumparambil
    Approximately 90 percent of the marriages in India today are reported to be arranged marriages. Parents and families make partner choices and marital decisions for their children, sometimes needing the children only to consent to the decisions of the elders. Given this reality, most men and women who enter into such marriages have very limited pre-marital contact with each othe...
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    42,86 €

  • Transnational Family Communication
    Sondra Cuban
    This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Sondra Cuban recounts the fascinating stories of sixty female immigrants living in Washington state, and explores how gender, social class, nationality, and language influence their ICT usage. She addres...
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    132,12 €

  • Strangers to Spouses
    Binu Edathumparambil
    Approximately 90 percent of the marriages in India today are reported to be arranged marriages. Parents and families make partner choices and marital decisions for their children, sometimes needing the children only to consent to the decisions of the elders. Given this reality, most men and women who enter into such marriages have very limited pre-marital contact with each othe...
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    25,77 €

  • Surrogate Motherhood Families
    Olga B.A. van den Akker / Olga B.Avan den Akker
    This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties. Olga Van den Akker details the psychological adaptation required to continuing changes in public opinion, advances in technologies and new legislations in surrogate motherhood and discusses their impact at an individual, societal and global level. She de...
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    119,71 €

  • Couple Relationships in the 21st Century
    Jacqui Gabb / Janet Fink
    This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love, intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society. The authors draw on rich qualitative and large-scale survey data to explore how couples communicate with each other, negotiate the pressures and pleasures of parenthood, and the vagaries of sexual desire and intimacy across life course. Focusing on ’the every...
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    45,79 €

  • The Family in America
    Allan C. Carlson / Robert McC. Adams
    The Family in America offers a fresh interpretation of American social history, emphasizing the vital role of the family and household autonomy and threats to both imposed by industrial organization and the state ...
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    153,26 €

  • Letter to My Father
    G Thomas Couser / G. Thomas Couser / GThomas Couser
    Having wounded his father with a devastating letter when he was twenty-three and felt somewhat responsible for his subsequent mental collapse, the author reexamines his father’s life using documents found after his death to reflect on their relationship and reach a reconciliation with a man he had not really known. ...
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    40,48 €

  • Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Becoming Parents or Remaining Childfree
    Cara Bergstrom-Lynch
    This book draws on qualitative interviews with lesbian, gay, and bisexual people regarding whether and how they came to have children. ...
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    61,22 €

  • Deconstructing Dads
    Deconstructing Dads explores a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film, to provide historical and current examples of shifts from the bumbling dad to new types of participatory fathers, questioning just how revolutionary these new images are for families. ...
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    67,75 €

  • Gay Men’s Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age
    Peter Robinson
    This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924-86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on the men’s working lives, while the second half of the book explores the interviewees’ concerns about old age an...
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    119,83 €

  • Unequal Partnership
    Aisha-Sky Gates
    Do you want to create a healthy and sustainable intimate relationship?  Are you already dating or married and want to strengthen what you have?American society assumes that an egalitarian relationship is for everyone but the divorce rate is higher than fifty percent. The Unequal Partnership model has a deliberate consensual power imbalance as the main element of a strong founda...
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    9,38 €

  • Young People’s Perspectives on End-of-Life
    Sarah Coombs
    This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death. The author uses everyday material objects in order to facilitate a range of conversations, revealing lively engagement with the topic. Cultural resources, such as literature and film, provide a rich variety of perspectives on and responses to death, whilst equally providing...
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    120,29 €

  • Don’t Marry a Lemon
    Brett Novick
    As the song goes, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough". Mr. Novick, through the use of a car analogy, helps the reader develop criteria to better determine if someone is marriage material or will be a lemon of a spouse.Brett J. Novick, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist uses his decades of clinical experience and his own 20 year marriage to give advice on how to pick the ri...
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    8,02 €

  • Home and Sexuality
    Rachael M Scicluna
    This book explores the meanings and experiences of home among a group of lesbians who over the past five decades have sought to create alternative intimate and public living spaces. The protagonists who enact the ethnographic narrative are a small group of older lesbians, mainly feminist activists, residing in the metropolis of London. The meaning of home and domestic space eme...
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    120,30 €

  • Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life
    Iris Erh-Ya Pai
    This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries. This ambivalence has a strong influence on their relational decisions as they deal with contradictio...
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    119,88 €

  • Towards a Professional Model of Surrogate Motherhood
    Liezl van Zyl / Ruth Walker
    This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy - the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book propo...
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    120,31 €

  • The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination
    Berit Åström
    This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Åström seeks to investigate the many functions and meani...
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    144,59 €

  • Misguided Intentions
    Codis Hampton II
    From birth through our teens we experience quite a bit of life that is out of our control. One could say we are not in command of our lives during that period. The responsibility for our overall well-being lies with our parents or other adults. Once we have reached the legal age of self-responsibility, we have more control over who we are. How our life turns out is now in our p...
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    34,76 €

  • Misguided Intentions
    Codis Hampton II
    From birth through our teens we experience quite a bit of life that is out of our control. One could say we are not in command of our lives during that period. The responsibility for our overall well-being lies with our parents or other adults. Once we have reached the legal age of self-responsibility, we have more control over who we are. How our life turns out is now in our p...
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    20,45 €

  • After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development
    The second volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference addressing how after-school programs can promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. It examines summer learning and best practices for different types of after-school programs by drawing on th...
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    73,01 €

  • Communication Diversity in Families
    James Honeycutt
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    200,63 €

  • Communication Diversity in Families
    James Honeycutt
    Communication Diversity in Families discusses diverse family types and the communication that occurs within and among them. The carefully curated readings explore a variety of family forms which exist and have existed in American society throughout its history. They also address the diverse functions and activities of these families. The readings are organized into five section...
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    130,19 €

  • Television and Dating in Contemporary China
    Chao Yang
    This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world’s fastest growing economy.  Since the implementation of reform in 1978, the economic and socio-cultural environment of modern China has experienced a dramatic transformation under the influence of urbanization and globa...
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    132,51 €

  • After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development
    The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. This volume reviews the importance of after-school programs for PYD and discusses key components...
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    73,01 €

  • Indigenous Children Growing Up Strong
    This edited collection by leading Australian Aboriginal scholars uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) to explore how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are growing up in contemporary Australia. The authors provide an overview of the study, including the Indigenous methodological and ethical framework which guides the analysis. They als...
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    193,37 €

  • Rural Welfare in China
    Yi Pan
    This comprehensive reference views China’s welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare. Focusing on the mainland’s vast, mainly rural population and its long and complicated history, it analyzes rural welfare from the imperial dynasties, to the socialist planned economy under Mao Zedong, to its recent history...
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    120,54 €


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