Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour.
This unique Research Handbook maps the historical, theoretical, and methodological concepts in sociology of law, exploring the rich and complex nature of this area of research.
This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe.
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The Handbook of Sociology of Aging showcases the very best that sociology has to offer the study of human aging. The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive and engaging treatment of the field over the past 30 years.
4.1 Family Effects What is probably the largest area of context-related research in the sociology of education is often not recognized as such. This is the area concerned with effects on education that can be attributed to the family.
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This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters.
The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society.
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