Presents original research results on the leading edge of sociology. This volume focuses on ageing, abortion and leadership. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum.

Presents original research results on the leading edge of sociology. This volume focuses on poverty, life expectancy and migration.

Presents original research results in sociology. This volume focuses on poverty, parenting, and family.

'Advances in Sociology Research' presents original research results on the leading edge of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. This volume focuses on poverty, parenting, and family.

Presents original research results in the field of sociology. This title includes topics such as adolescents in foster care and their attachment-security to significant others; reducing infant mortality in newly industrialised countries; democratic failings, successes and challenges in the European Union; and, more.

Presents research results in the field of sociology. Included in this compilation are topics such as the mastering the demands of social and economic change as social indicators and predictors of primary and secondary control; alcohol consumption patterns in Sweden; ethnography as it applies to health care and sociology research; and, more.

This continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Included in this compilation are topics such as police practices and their impact on society; routine mobility and urban inequality; motives behind volunteerism; human sexuality education among medical students; and, others.

This continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Topics discussed include secular trends in growth and maturity in Europe; mate selection and the optimization of the marriage market; income range and its relation to well-being in Chinese society; population growth and policy options in Sub-Saharan Africa; social workers and racial disparities in cancer patients and perceptions of social mobility in the United States.

This continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Included in this compilation are topics such as recommendations to help the advancement of scientific research in the Sudanese society; the social work education curriculum's international focus; legal and ethical challenges of corporate social networking; social status and the disclosure of traumatic life events; societal conditions of child care in 19th century France and the U.S.;...

This continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Included in this compilation are topics such as social welfare and the elderly; the impact of birth rates on women's professional activity; urban spaces and their socioeconomic make-up; transformational leadership across cultures; social welfare function and social symptoms of the intergenerational welfare shifts in the U.S. and Europe.