Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future
ISBN: 9780761927136 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looks at how changes within the family have been reflected in family law, family education, and family therapy. This book includes chapters on alternative lifestyles and economically distressed families. It is intended as a resource for practitioners who work with families in disciplines including Family Science, Sociology, and Social Work.
Looks at how changes within the family have been reflected in family law, family education, and family therapy. This book includes chapters on alterna...
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780,79 zł |
Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780761928195 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Second Edition of Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective travels across geographic, cultural, and historical boundaries to explore the diversity of the world's families-in family structure, processes, history, and social and environmental contexts. Editors Bron B. Ingoldsby and Suzanna D. Smith examine a full range of topics including family origin and universality, family functions, marital structure, kinship rules, comparative research methods, family development, marriage adjustment, parenting, divorce, and aging. This comprehensive text increases students' recognition of and...
The Second Edition of Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective travels across geographic, cultural, and historical boundaries to explore the d...
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876,51 zł |
Advancing Family Theories
ISBN: 9780761929055 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can the study of families be scientific? What is the difference between postmodern and positivistic approaches? What is the role of models and metaphors in constructing our theoretical knowledge? In Advancing Family Theories, author James M. White addresses such difficult questions that have been longstanding issues within the field of family studies and examines these matters from a social science perspective. Advancing Family Theories explores two contemporary theories of the family-rational choice theory and transition theory. These diametrically different approaches illuminate what...
How can the study of families be scientific? What is the difference between postmodern and positivistic approaches? What is the role of models and met...
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609,53 zł |
Brave New Stepfamilies: Diverse Paths Toward Stepfamily Living
ISBN: 9780761930235 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Brave New Stepfamilies' brings to light the kinds of stories largely absent from the stepfamily literature. This book acknowledges and highlights the social and demographic changes that are rapidly modifying the nature of stepfamily life. In addition, it provides a glimpse of the benefits as well.
'Brave New Stepfamilies' brings to light the kinds of stories largely absent from the stepfamily literature. This book acknowledges and highlights the...
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382,84 zł |
Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research
ISBN: 9780761930655 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback for classroom use!
Sponsored by the National Council on Family Relations, the Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research is the reference work on theory and methods for family scholars and students around the world. This volume provides a diverse, eclectic, and paradoxically mature approach to theorizing and demonstrates how the development of theory is crucial to the future of family research. The Sourcebook reflects an interactive approach that focuses on the... Now available in paperback for classroom use!
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755,61 zł |
Representing the Family
ISBN: 9780761964728 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at how the family is represented by the media, and by scrutinizing the manner in which it is regulated, this book uncovers the ways in which academic research and welfare policy have colluded with political rhetoric and the popular media to re-invent a mythical ideal family.
Looking at how the family is represented by the media, and by scrutinizing the manner in which it is regulated, this book uncovers the ways in which a...
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680,04 zł |
Representing the Family
ISBN: 9780761964735 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at how the family is represented by the media, and by scrutinizing the manner in which it is regulated, this book uncovers the ways in which academic research and welfare policy have colluded with political rhetoric and the popular media to re-invent a mythical ideal family.
Looking at how the family is represented by the media, and by scrutinizing the manner in which it is regulated, this book uncovers the ways in which a...
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241,74 zł |
Handbook of Parenting: Theory and Research for Practice
ISBN: 9780761971047 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook of Parenting brings together in a single volume much of the theoretical and empirical knowledge and aspects of professional activity within the broadly defined field of parenting. Contributions are presented from an internationally renowned group of scholars known for their work in a range of disciplines, including child and family psychology, education and family studies, providing an accessible map of the major debates in theory, research and practice in this important and exciting field.
The material is presented comprehensively. It encompasses essential... The Handbook of Parenting brings together in a single volume much of the theoretical and empirical knowledge and aspects of professional activi...
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629,67 zł |
Families in Later Life: Connections and Transitions
ISBN: 9780761987024 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences in society by race, gender, and social class, and in a form which combines insight from the humanities as well as the social sciences. The ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences i... |
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720,34 zł |
Sociology of Families
ISBN: 9780761987499 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sociology of Families, Second Edition, begins at the level of the individual by examining familiar contemporary issues3/4 topics students are likely to feel strongly about. David Newman and Liz Grauerholz next show students the deeper and more detailed sociological underpinnings of the issues at hand, using the theories and data of social sciences to understand the meaning and broader relevance of these controversies and experiences. Sociology of Families, Second Edition, begins at the level of the individual by examining familiar contemporary issues3/4 topics students are likel... |
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876,51 zł |
Race and Family: A Structural Approach
ISBN: 9780761988649 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Race and Family: A Structural Approach, author Roberta L. Coles looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way- through a structural lens. Unlike many texts on race and family, this book offers an approach that illustrates overarching structural factors affecting all families as opposed to examining each ethnicity in isolation from one another. By focusing on various structural factors such as demographic, economic, and historical aspects, this book analyzes various family trends in a cross-cutting manner to exemplify the similarities and distinctions among all racial and ethnic groups.
In Race and Family: A Structural Approach, author Roberta L. Coles looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way- through a structural lens. Unlike...
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720,34 zł |
With This Ring: Divorce, Intimacy and Cohabitation from a Multicultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780762305698 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With This Ring is the 19th volume of the series Contemporary Studies in Sociology from their Sociology collection, edited by R.Robin Miller.
With This Ring is the 19th volume of the series Contemporary Studies in Sociology from their Sociology collection, edited by R.Robin Miller.
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577,92 zł |
Work and Family
ISBN: 9780762306053 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses key issues regarding the nexus of work and family in society at the beginning of the 21st century. For many families, the balancing act brings rewards as well as concerns. Employers and governments struggle with whether and how to assist in achieving balance. The work presents original research that addresses the challenges in meeting work and family obligations. Each chapter provides policy recommendations that many help achieve better work-family balance, changes in work-family attitudes, conditions leading to firms' adopting policies to support work-family balance, and...
This book addresses key issues regarding the nexus of work and family in society at the beginning of the 21st century. For many families, the balancin...
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870,24 zł |
Minding the Time in Family Experience: Emerging Perspectives and Issues
ISBN: 9780762307753 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are directed to mind the time on occasions when diligence to the clock is important. However, to deliberately invoke mind your time is to remember how quickly time, and the clock which serves as its agent, can so quickly recede into the mundane and taken for granted parts of our lives. The experience of time in families can both permeate all activities but nevertheless be hidden. The papers in this volume, representing a range of disciplines (history, sociology, psychology, family therapy, leisure studies, family science) intentionally foreground the way that time shapes everyday family...
We are directed to mind the time on occasions when diligence to the clock is important. However, to deliberately invoke mind your time is to remember ...
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577,92 zł |
Families in Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780762311163 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eastern Europe has been recognized as a region that has experienced major socio-political and economic changes in the last decades. The impact of these transitions on families and their functioning has also been significant. Although understanding of families in different cultures in the last years has been considerably increased, little has been written on Eastern European families. This book fills the void in literature and provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of family issues in Eastern Europe. It brings together scholars from fourteen Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech...
Eastern Europe has been recognized as a region that has experienced major socio-political and economic changes in the last decades. The impact of thes...
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956,13 zł |
Partners Becoming Parents
ISBN: 9780765700247 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the often difficult process of being a parent and sustaining a partnership in a changing world. It focuses on the connections between parenting and partnering relationships at a time when the foundations of family life are being brought into question.
This study examines the often difficult process of being a parent and sustaining a partnership in a changing world. It focuses on the connections betw...
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331,76 zł |
The Name Game: Cultural Modernization and First Names
ISBN: 9780765802972 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old fashioned and replaced by new choices. In The Name Game, Jurgen Gerhards shows that shifts in the choice of names are based on more than arbitrary trends of fashion. Instead, he demonstrates, they are determined by larger currents in cultural modernization. Using classic tools of sociology, Gerhards focuses on changing atterns of first names in Germany from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, using these as an indicator of... From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old fashioned and r... |
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Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America
ISBN: 9780765803160 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity. Barely four years later, the illusions of the rhetoric of unity have given way to the divisive oversimplifications of Red vs. Blue electoral cartography. Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America offers a more nuanced yet more disturbing picture of American disunity, a disunity both social and political, both public and personal. Deeper than the disagreements that separate voter from voter, this disunity increasingly separates... In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity. Barely four ... |
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Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage
ISBN: 9780765803627 / Angielski / Twarda / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The institution of marriage has become perilously weak in America. Changes in the law over the past three decades, such as the spread of no-fault divorce and broad acquiescence to cultures of divorce and intentional childlessness, have stripped traditional marriage of important legal supports. Half of all marriages end in divorce and just as many are childless. Conjugal America seeks to recapture the real purposes of marriage and the unchanging nature of this most vital and fundamental human institution. Confronting contemporary issues and drawing heavily on the natural and social...
The institution of marriage has become perilously weak in America. Changes in the law over the past three decades, such as the spread of no-fault divo...
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503,69 zł |
Grandmothers: The Changing Culture
ISBN: 9780765808936 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The traditional role of the grandmother in contemporary Western society is changing. Driven in part by the increasing participation of women in the workplace, as well as declines in family stability, grandparents are taking on new responsibilities as family caretakers. This is of special interest in modern Britain. Grandmothers is a collection of essays reflecting on the experience of being a grandmother in modern Britain (plus, in one case, France). It follows a study of grandparenting-the first national study on the subject in the UK-carried out by the editor as part of the British...
The traditional role of the grandmother in contemporary Western society is changing. Driven in part by the increasing participation of women in the wo...
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216,55 zł |