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Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.

  • Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families
  • Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents
  • Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians
  • Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe
  • Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

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Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 18/08/2017
    ISBN13: 9781119406037, 978-1119406037
    ISBN10: 111940603X

    Number of Pages: 608

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

    Description

    Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.

    • Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families
    • Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents
    • Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians
    • Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe
    • Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated

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