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  • The Demography of Remarriage in Japan

    by James M. Raymo, Erika Teramoto, Shohei Yoda, Miho Iwasawa, Setsuya Fukuda ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the first comprehensive demographic overview of remarriage in Japan. Despite the fact that nearly one in five marriages in Japan now involves at least one formerly married spouse, very little is known about the nature of remarriages and how they differ from first marriages. One important focus of this book is to examine fertility intentions and outcomes in remarriages and to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Educational Assortative Mating in Japan

    Insights into Social Change and Stratification

    by Fumiya Uchikoshi, James M. Raymo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider similarities and differences with patterns observed in the USA and other low-fertility Western societies. In this book, research on educational assortative mating in Japan is summarized and updated. This book contributes ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Diverging Destinies

    The Japanese Case

    by James M. Raymo, Miho Iwasawa ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the context of ideas articulated in research on “diverging destinies” and “patterns of disadvantage” as part of the second demographic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • What is a Family?

    Law and Regulation in a Transdisciplinary Context

    by Martha Albertson Fineman, Alan Brown, Noam Peleg, Jens M Scherpe, Mary Jo Maynes, Shoshana Grossbard, Katherine Allen, Kate Ellis-Davies, Sarah Foley, Arnstein Aassve, Alícia Adserà, Paul Y. Chang, Letizia Mencarini, Chen Peng, Samuel Plach, James M. Raymo, Senhu Wang, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Nausica Palazzo, Daniel Cardoso, Claire Jenkins, Helena Moradi, Jonathan Herring ...
    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How families are formed, lived and understood has shifted dramatically—yet legal frameworks often still reflect outdated norms. This collection brings together a diverse team of international contributors to explore what a family is through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including law, psychology, economics, family science and history, ... Read more

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  • Happiness—Concept, Measurement and Promotion

    by Yew-Kwang Ng ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book defines happiness intuitively and explores several common conceptual mistakes with regard to happiness. It then moves on to address topical issues including, but not limited to, whether money can buy you happiness, why happiness is ultimately the only thing of intrinsic value, and the various factors important for happiness. It also presents a more reliable and ... Read more

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

    Edited by Judith Treas, Jacqueline Scott, Martin Richards ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    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 ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Social Justice, Multicultural Counseling, and Practice

    Beyond a Conventional Approach

    by Heesoon Jun ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This second edition book provides an update to multicultural psychology and counseling research findings, and the DSM-5 in sociopolitical and cultural contexts. It links social psychology with current cognitive science research on implicit learning, ethnocentrism (attribution error, in-group favoritism, and asymmetric perception), automatic information processing, and inappropriate generalization. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Short Guide to Aging and Gerontology

    by Kate de Medeiros ...
    Series series Short Guides
    As the field of aging and gerontology grows worldwide, this exciting guide introduces students to key issues and concepts.It covers topics related to the phenomena of advancing aging, including how older age has been defined historically, cultural myths related to advanced age, health and function in later life, how older age is financed throughout the world, and other key questions. Taking a ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology

    Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Shigehiro Oishi, Ayşe K. Üskül ...
    Edited by Ayşe K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi, Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology focuses on the social and economic conditions that impact on every aspect of an individual's life cycle. This edited collection showcases a variety of approaches to the study of the role of the social and economic environment in human psychological processes, such as: judgment and decision-making, trust, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Aging, Globalization and Inequality

    The New Critical Gerontology

    Edited by Jan Baars, Dale Dannefer, Chris Phillipson, Alan Walker ...
    Series series Society and Aging Series
    This book is a major reassessment of work in the field of critical gerontology, providing a comprehensive survey of issues by a team of contributors drawn from Europe and North America. The book focuses on the variety of ways in which age and ageing are socially constructed, and the extent to which growing old is being transformed through processes associated with globalisation. The collection ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education

    A Faculty Guide for Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Ernest Stromberg ...
    This volume explores the current state of student mental health and trauma while offering theories and practice of trauma-informed teaching and learning.The interdisciplinary authors gathered in this collection discuss the roles, practices, and structures in higher education that can support the wellness and academic success of students who suffer from the effects of traumatic experiences. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Happiness

    Lessons from a New Science

    by Richard Layard ...
    There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average ... Read more

    $9.99 USD