Reshaping Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Shared Parenting
ISBN: 9780761909781 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discourses on fatherhood often focus on minimal changes in men's participation in family-life and in so doing mask significant changes some men have made. In contrast, Dienhart's qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men's and women's resourcefulness as they deliberately co-create alternatives to traditional parenting patterns.
Discourses on fatherhood often focus on minimal changes in men's participation in family-life and in so doing mask significant changes some men have m...
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385,88 zł |
The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Leaving and Returning Home
ISBN: 9780761909910 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century.
Examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century.
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726,05 zł |
The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Leaving and Returning Home
ISBN: 9780761909927 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. The authors make use of data from the National Survey of Families and Households to: construct patterns for when children leave home; and establish the most important criteria for leaving home amongst different groups in the United States - men, women, blacks, hispanics, whites, and different religious groups and social classes.
This book examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. Th...
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522,96 zł |
Families and Communes: An Examination of Nontraditional Lifestyles
ISBN: 9780761910749 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses specifically on the role of the family in communal life. Communal groups are one type of nontraditional families, some communes are predisposed to families while others are not and some communal families can be replacements or substitutes for nuclear families. Historic communal groups such as Shakers, Oneida, Amana, and the Mormons are investigated as are contemporary rural and urban communal groups such as Twin Oaks, Jesus People USA, and the Hutterites. This book focuses specifically on the role of the family in communal life. Communal groups are one type of nontraditional families, some communes a... |
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385,88 zł |
Emile Durkheim on the Family
ISBN: 9780761912071 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at this classical sociologist's work on the family. Durkheim's writings in this area are little known, but the family was nevertheless one of his primary interests. It brings together Durkheim's ideas on the family from diverse sources and presents his family and sociology systematically and comprehensively. Chapter topics include: * Durkheim's life and times * his evolutionary theory of the family * methodologies for studying the family * the changing relationship of kin * conjugal family and the state * the interior of the family * family policy * gender * sexuality His work...
This book looks at this classical sociologist's work on the family. Durkheim's writings in this area are little known, but the family was nevertheless...
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522,96 zł |
Family Diversity: Continuity and Change in the Contemporary Family
ISBN: 9780761912934 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This nonjudgmental, inclusive, and far-reaching text focuses on the diverse patterns of family structure prevalent in our society today. Family Diversity presents empirical research on the internal dynamics, social environments, support factors, prevalence of discrimination, and common stereotypes that account for the issues surrounding current family relations. By examining the history and nature of foster and adoptive, single-parent, lesbian/gay, step- and grandparent family units, Pauline Irit Erera is able to challenge both the idealized family prototype and the hegemony of the...
This nonjudgmental, inclusive, and far-reaching text focuses on the diverse patterns of family structure prevalent in our society today. Family Divers...
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614,36 zł |
Work and Family: Research Informing Policy
ISBN: 9780761913078 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways time influences work and family processes and considers the social policy implications that inhere.
The 'juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways t...
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614,36 zł |
Work and Family: Research Informing Policy
ISBN: 9780761913085 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways time influences work and family processes and considers the social policy implications that inhere.
The juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways ti...
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385,88 zł |
Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research
ISBN: 9780761913184 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The book is organized into seven chapters. Each can stand alone - offering a focus on a particular aspect of the research, with a summary and conclusion and//or recommendations - and they also link well together. Areas covered include: risk factors; the effects of partner violence on victims, perpetrators and children; sexual violence; same-sex couple violence; ethnic minority violence; and prevention, intervention and training' - British Journal of Social Work Twenty years of accumulated knowledge and research into violence towards partners are synthesized in this landmark book. Topics...
'The book is organized into seven chapters. Each can stand alone - offering a focus on a particular aspect of the research, with a summary and conclus...
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385,88 zł |
Stress, Coping, and Health in Families: Sense of Coherence and Resiliency
ISBN: 9780761913962 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rather than investigating the pathology of families under stress, this book takes the unusual step of studying individuals, families and ethnic groups moving towards health. This approach provides new insights as to why some families manage life events with relative ease and recover from adversity with renewed strength, harmony and purpose. The contributors develop the concept of family and cultural 'coherence' as the key to promoting health and well-being.
Rather than investigating the pathology of families under stress, this book takes the unusual step of studying individuals, families and ethnic groups...
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726,05 zł |
Stress, Coping, and Health in Families: Sense of Coherence and Resiliency
ISBN: 9780761913979 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rather than investigating the pathology of families under stress, this book takes the unusual step of studying individuals, families and ethnic groups moving towards health. This approach provides new insights as to why some families manage life events with relative ease and recover from adversity with renewed strength, harmony and purpose. The contributors develop the concept of family and cultural 'coherence' as the key to promoting health and well-being.
Rather than investigating the pathology of families under stress, this book takes the unusual step of studying individuals, families and ethnic groups...
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522,96 zł |
The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society
ISBN: 9780761914891 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the issues surrounding divorce and its implications for public policy. The authors integrate research and policy perspectives of scholars in various disciplines to focus on the consequences of divorce for children, the parents' responsibilities after divorce, nonresidential parenting, and the effects of a high divorce rate in society.
This book analyzes the issues surrounding divorce and its implications for public policy. The authors integrate research and policy perspectives of sc...
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614,36 zł |
The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society
ISBN: 9780761914907 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Postdivorce Family analyses and reflects upon the issues surrounding divorce and their implications for public policy.
The Postdivorce Family analyses and reflects upon the issues surrounding divorce and their implications for public policy.
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385,88 zł |
Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity
ISBN: 9780761918561 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family Ethnicity provides information about the various cultural and social elements that are fundamental to family identity in the US today. Unique family customs, proverbs and stories are passed on for generations allowing families to differentiate or link themselves to other families.
Family Ethnicity provides information about the various cultural and social elements that are fundamental to family identity in the US today. Unique f...
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883,45 zł |
Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity
ISBN: 9780761918578 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family ethnicity involves the unique family customs, proverbs, and stories that are passed on for generations. This volume provides extensive information about the various cultural elements that different family groups have drawn upon in order to exist in the United States today. The sections cover Native American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Mexican American and Spanish, African American, Muslim American, and Asian American families. Family ethnicity involves the unique family customs, proverbs, and stories that are passed on for generations. This volume provides extensive infor... |
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614,36 zł |
Continuity and Change in the American Family
ISBN: 9780761920083 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides readers with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family. Looking at family continuity and change in the latter half of the 20th century, this book explores such topics as the growth in cohabitation and changes in childbearing and how these trends affect family life. Other topics include the changing lives of single mothers, fathers, and grandparents and increasing economic disparities among families; childcare and child well being; and combining paid work and family.
This book provides readers with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family. Looking at family continuity and change i...
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883,45 zł |
Continuity and Change in the American Family
ISBN: 9780761920090 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family. Understanding ever-changing family systems and patterns requires taking the pulse of contemporary family life from time to time. This book paints a portrait of family continuity and change in the later half of the 20th century, with a focus on data from the 1970OCOs to present. The authors explore such topics as the growth in cohabitation, changes in childbearing, and how these trends... Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive descr... |
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614,36 zł |
Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations
ISBN: 9780761923640 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook provides an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on theory, research and methodology on dynamic processes in parent-child relations. It focuses on cognitive, behavioral and relational processes that govern immediate parent-child interactions and long-term relationships. It considers the nature of change, and what makes such interactions and relationships 'work' the way they do. This volume focuses on: process rather than outcomes; bi-directional influence; transformation in behavior and relationships as well as continuity and transmission; and parents and children as agents...
This Handbook provides an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on theory, research and methodology on dynamic processes in parent-child relations...
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786,98 zł |
The Contemporary American Family: A Dialectical Perspective on Communication and Relationships
ISBN: 9780761924456 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Contemporary American Family: A Dialectical Perspective on Communication and Relationships recognizes that families are both close and distant, stable and changing, amenable and uncontrollable. Teresa Chandler Sabourin employs a dialectical approach, acknowledging that a familyOCOs contradictions and relational tensions may be the determining factor in its interaction. Writing in a direct and simple style, Sabourin uses this innovative theoretical position to address four types of family diversity: structural, cultural, developmental, and functional. Designed as a supplemental text... The Contemporary American Family: A Dialectical Perspective on Communication and Relationships recognizes that families are both close and distant,... |
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522,96 zł |
The Contemporary American Family: A Dialectical Perspective on Communication and Relationships
ISBN: 9780761924463 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written to expand the definition of the contemporary American family to be more inclusive, this book approaches diversity as the norm and does not assume conventional family values. The theoretical position is the dialectical approach, which assumes paradox and relational tension as normal, rather than a systems approach, which is a form of psychological cause and effect. Chapter One defines 'dialectics' in the context of family communication and family relations. Chapter Two addresses the question, 'What is a red family?' Chapters Three to Six examine four types of family diversity:...
Written to expand the definition of the contemporary American family to be more inclusive, this book approaches diversity as the norm and does not ass...
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274,18 zł |