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The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
ISBN: 9780691162577 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their children's lives, are the qualities that once made American childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social,... The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the pr... |
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136,50 zł |
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The Autonomous Child: Theorizing Socialization
ISBN: 9783319250984 / Angielski / Miękka / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization. This book looks at the theorizing of socialization in sociology, anthropology, psychology, in the life course approach, and as the interplay of genetics and environmental factors. It analyses the dominant perspectives and viewpoints within each discipline and field, and shows how the various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of...
The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conc...
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195,87 zł |
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Expect To Be Amazed!: God is the God of Romance
ISBN: 9781941746172 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you become disappointed, disillusioned, and discouraged while waiting for Mr. or Miss Right? If so, you are not alone. Christians around the world are eager to find the person God designed especially for them--for you
With healthy, heaping doses of humor, dashes of serious common sense, and bouts of biblical wisdom, Expect To Be Amazed is full of delicious remedies for all that ails every single heart.
You are invited on a 40-day journey, complete with inspirational devotionals and vital declarations, to restore your hope in... Have you become disappointed, disillusioned, and discouraged while waiting for Mr. or Miss Right? If so, you are not alone. Christians around the w... |
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64,06 zł |
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Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women's Success
ISBN: 9780226183367 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helicopter parents--the kind that continue to hover even in college--are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really damage their children and burden universities? In this book, sociologist Laura T. Hamilton illuminates the lives of young women and their families to ask just what role parents play during the crucial college years. Hamilton vividly captures the parenting approaches of mothers and fathers from all walks of life--from a CFO for a Fortune 500 company...
Helicopter parents--the kind that continue to hover even in college--are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticiz...
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131,04 zł |
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Social Work with Children and Families: Reflections of a Critical Practitioner
ISBN: 9781472433718 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professional social work has changed considerably over the last forty years coinciding with the demise of the social democratic consensus of the post-war years and the emergence and now domination of neoliberalism. Rather than the state through the government of the day ensuring citizens' basic needs were met via the welfare state, the belief in free market economics entails people having to be self-reliant and self-responsible. This has involved social work with children and families moving from a helping and supportive role to one that is more authoritarian, this often involving telling...
Professional social work has changed considerably over the last forty years coinciding with the demise of the social democratic consensus of the post-...
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752,12 zł |
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Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media
ISBN: 9781433127465 / Angielski / Twarda / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing about how digital and social media are affecting and changing nearly every aspect of family interaction over the lifespan. The research and thinking featured in the book reflects the intense growth of interest in families in the digital age. Chapters explore communication among couples, families, parents, adolescents, and emerging adults as their realities are created, impacted, changed, structured, improved, influenced and/or inhibited by cell...
Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing abo...
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1244,17 zł |
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Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors
ISBN: 9780824851545 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan's complex polygynous kinship system as the domain within which courtship occurs. Heian courtship, conducted mainly to form secondary marriages, was driven by power struggles of succession among lineages that focused on achieving the highest position possible at court. Thus interpreting courtship in light of... Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In ... |
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436,80 zł |
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Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media
ISBN: 9781433127458 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing about how digital and social media are affecting and changing nearly every aspect of family interaction over the lifespan. The research and thinking featured in the book reflects the intense growth of interest in families in the digital age. Chapters explore communication among couples, families, parents, adolescents, and emerging adults as their realities are created, impacted, changed, structured, improved, influenced and/or inhibited by cell...
Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing abo...
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350,62 zł |
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Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness: Political Participation in a Neo-Liberal Era
ISBN: 9781137562791 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship between youth labour market marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of Portugal and the role played by austerity policies in shaping patterns of activism. Through integrating primary and secondary empirical evidence with key ideas from classical and contemporary Sociology, the authors illustrate some of the key features of youth unemployment and job precariousness, also highlighting trends in formal and informal activist activities. Central to Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness is the argument that following the onset of the...
This book explores the relationship between youth labour market marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of Portugal and the r...
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195,87 zł |
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Handbook of Mental Health in African American Youth
ISBN: 9783319254999 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert insights into sociocultural factors that influence mental health, the prevalence of particular disorders among African American adolescents, ethnically salient assessment and diagnostic methods, and the evidence base for specific models. The information presented in this handbook helps bring the...
This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African A...
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783,57 zł |
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New Perspectives on Mutual Dependency in Care-Giving
ISBN: 9781472456663 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many scholars see caregiving relationships as being based on mutual dependency or interdependency. Extensively cited notions of the a global care chaina or a international division of reproductive laboura have prepared the ground for analysis of global interdependencies in several domains. This book goes further by taking mutual dependency as a starting point for analysing all relationships. Using the example of Vietnamese families in the Czech Republic and the Czech native nannies, it shows how paid caregiving is contextualized in terms of various relationships between three types of actors:...
Many scholars see caregiving relationships as being based on mutual dependency or interdependency. Extensively cited notions of the a global care chai...
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700,25 zł |
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The Darker Side of Family Communication; The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate
ISBN: 9781433125379 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes.
Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from the most respected scholars in their specialty areas. It is the first published work on the dark side of family communication scholarship to include critical theorizing. This makes it an important contribution to family communication research in general and dark side work more specifically. Such chapters examine how gender,... This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family ...
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308,44 zł |
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The Darker Side of Family Communication; The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate
ISBN: 9781433125386 / Angielski / Twarda / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes.
Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from the most respected scholars in their specialty areas. It is the first published work on the dark side of family communication scholarship to include critical theorizing. This makes it an important contribution to family communication research in general and dark side work more specifically. Such chapters examine how gender,... This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family ...
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1096,39 zł |
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Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
ISBN: 9781479886227 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these and other questions to explore compulsory monogamy as a central feature of sexual normalcy....
A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, whe...
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129,62 zł |
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Kinship and Human Evolution: Making Culture, Becoming Human
ISBN: 9781498524179 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kinship and Human Evolution: Making Culture, Becoming Human offers an exciting new explanation of human evolution. Based on insights from anthropology, it shows how humans became cultured beings capable of symbolic thought by developing kinship-based exchange relationships. Kinship was as an adaptive response to the harsh environment caused by the last major ice age. In the extreme ice age conditions, natural selection favored those groups that could forge and sustain such alliances, and the resulting relationships enabled them to share different food resources between groups. Kinship was a...
Kinship and Human Evolution: Making Culture, Becoming Human offers an exciting new explanation of human evolution. Based on insights from anthropology...
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409,50 zł |
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Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World
ISBN: 9781784536268 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,00 zł |
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Power, Sect and State in Syria: The Politics of Marriage and Identity Amongst the Druze
ISBN: 9781784532208 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Syrian state s rhetoric of Arab nationalism left little room for the official recognition of minority identities in pre-war Syria. Yet in practice, the state continually engaged with the Druze and other minorities to reinforce its legitimacy, often through cultural policy. Uncovering this neglected aspect of pre-war Syrian politics, Kastrinou explores the cultural politics of marriage in Syria, primarily among the Druze, to reveal how practical rituals of marriage inform sectarian and national identity formation. Challenging the assumed inherence of sectarianism and Druze... The Syrian state s rhetoric of Arab nationalism left little room for the official recognition of minority identities in pre-war Syria. Yet in pract... |
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674,31 zł |
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Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780774828970 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adultery scandals involving politicians. Dating websites for married women and men. News reports on raids of polygamous communities. It seems that non-monogamy is everywhere: in popular culture, in the news, and before the courts. In Fraught Intimacies, Nathan Rambukkana delves into how polygamy, adultery, and polyamory are represented in the public sphere. His intricate analysis reveals how some forms of non-monogamy are tacitly accepted, even glamourized, while others are vilified and reviled. By questioning what this says about intimacy, power, and privilege, this book offers an... Adultery scandals involving politicians. Dating websites for married women and men. News reports on raids of polygamous communities. It seems that ... |
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160,80 zł |
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Jewasian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews
ISBN: 9780803285651 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories and a growing body of statistics provide data, they tell us little about the inner workings of day-to-day life for such couples and their children.
JewAsian is a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that... In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds,...
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155,56 zł |
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Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia: Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions
ISBN: 9781138119284 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Various forms of partnering such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships - are crucial in the formation of families throughout the world. Although, today, forms of partnering in the region are not restricted to formal marriage, the norm remains for couples to marry to establish a new family, and to accept the cultural requirement to have children. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of partnerships and marriage in the Southeast Asian region using quantitative data alongside qualitative... Various forms of partnering such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships -... |
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248,92 zł |