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  • European Families Facing Hard Times

    Challenges, Strategies, and Family Policies

    Edited by Vida Česnuitytė, Gerardo A. Meil Landwerlin, Jesús Rogero-García, Irma Budginaitė-Mačkinė ...
    This book contains two Open Access chapters.Families in Europe have faced many challenges in the early years of the 21st Century that have disrupted everything from care services to education. From the frequent periods of lockdown in face of the Covid-19 pandemic to the devastation wrought by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many families have been left with nothing but uncertainty.In this edited ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Families in Economically Hard Times

    Experiences and Coping Strategies in Europe

    Edited by Vida Česnuitytė, Gerardo A. Meil Landwerlin ...
    The purpose of the edited collection Families in Economically Hard Times: Experiences and Coping Strategies in Europe is to provide readers with unique sociological knowledge on European families' experiences and behavioural strategies a decade after economic crisis of the 21st century.The particular importance of the topic is conditioned by the reality the last economic crisis created. This new ... Read more

    $91.89 USD

  • Parental Leave and Beyond

    Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions

    by Sophie Mathieu, Lindsey McKay, Andrea Doucet, Bernard Fusulier, Fred Deven, Laura Merla, Sonja Blum, Ivana Dobrotic, Maria Letizia Bosoni, Luca Pesenti, Sara Mazzucchelli0, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay1, Elin Kvande2, Berit Brandth3, Tine Rostgaard4, Johanna Lammi- Taskula5, Ingolfur Gislason6, Guðný Björk Eydal7, Ann-Zofie Duvander8, Isabel Valarino0, Gayle Kaufman1, Anna Escobedo2, Wen-Jui Han3, Shirley Gatenio Gabel4, Hideki Nakazato5, Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky6, Margaret O'Brien7, Anna Kurowska8, Jesus Rogero Garcia9, Gerardo Meil Landwerlin0 ...
    This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking at the politics of care leave policies in eight countries across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia, the book moves on to consider a variety of key issues in depth, including gender equality, flexibility ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Caring Fathers in the Global Context

    by Esther Dermott, Tina Miller, Mengyao Wu, Alberto del Rey Poveda, Ekaterina Ivanova, Magdalena Żadkowska, Radosław Kossakowski, Bogna Dowgiałło, Firouz Gaini, Armi Mustosmäki, Disa Bergnehr, Sadiyya Haffejee, Guanli Zhang, Bingyi Zhang, Lichao Yang, Jesús Rogero-García, Gerardo Meil, Alison Koslowski, Miia Saarikallio-Torp, Johanna Lammi- Taskula, Anneli Miettinen, Johanna Närvi, Ella Sihvonen, Ann Phoenix, Andrea Doucet, Marja Tiilikainen, Anna Tarrant, Linzi Ladlow, Laura Way, Carole Ammann, Margaret O'Brien ...
    Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Despite growing recognition of fathers’ involvement in family life, dominant narratives still marginalise men’s caring roles. Caring Fathers in the Global Context addresses a pressing gap in our shared understanding: how care is practised and experienced by men across diverse cultural, social and policy settings.Drawing on wide-ranging, international ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe

    Edited by Anna-Maija Castrén, Vida Česnuitytė, Isabella Crespi, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Rita Gouveia, Claude Martin, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, Katarzyna Suwada ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • NEETs in European rural areas

    Individual features, support systems and policy measures

    Edited by Francisco Simões, Emre Erdogan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry of the most pressing challenges faced by young people Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. . Rural NEETs are one of the most invisible segments of the youth population, in spite of the fact that the percentage of NEETs is higher in the countryside, compared to those in ... Read more

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  • Political Trust and Distrust in Governance

    A Comparative Analysis in Times of Crisis

    Edited by Christian Lahusen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
    This edited volume provides new, nuanced answers to questions concerning the complex nature of political trust and distrust, exploring the role they play within democratic governance and the implications that varying degrees of trust can have on relations between citizens and institutions.In times of uncertainty and crisis, trust and distrust become a particularly important topic of public concern ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 1 topics with clear a... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Anna Wanka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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  • Psychiatry Disrupted

    Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

    by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond ...
    There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it.Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad ... Read more

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  • Invisible Barriers

    Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace

    by Stephane Carcillo, Marie-Anne Valfort ...
    An essential resource for anyone committed to fostering equality and fairness in employment—with actionable proposals for public policy that can address these inequities.In a world where discrimination against minorities remains a pressing issue even in economically and socially advanced countries, Invisible Barriers delves into the multifaceted nature of this pervasive problem. Drawing on ... Read more

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  • Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child’s Right to Participate

    Edited by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Karmen Toros ...
    Series series The Focus On Series
    This book explains and discusses how a child’s right to freedom of expression is upheld through practice and decision-making in Child Protection Services (CPS).Using the right to expression as stipulated in Article 12.2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a point of departure, it explains what CPS practices should look like and how they must operate to uphold and ... Read more

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