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Rethinking Family Practices
Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan …
Foucault, the Family and Politics
Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as attending school, going to work …
Families, Status and Dynasties
This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of …
Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption
This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice. Whereas most studies on transnational adoption …
Stepfamilies
Drawing on recent developments within the sociology of family life, this book examines family connection and solidarity within different stepfamily networks, focusing on …
Everyday Friendships
This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis …
Distance Relationships
Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and …
Feeling Gender
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different …
Changing Families, Changing Food
Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received ideas about the decline of the …
Understanding Families Over Time
Drawing on research from the Timescapes Study, this volume discusses the life chances and experiences of children and young people, parents and older generations. A unique …
Household Divisions of Labour
This book investigates the extent of gender inequality in the division of labour in the modern household. Through comparisons of the time allocations of single couple families …
Technology, Culture, Family
This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the …