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  • Managing Mothers

    Dual Earner Households After Maternity Leave

    by Julia Brannen, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative inside story of the lives of parents, and particularly mothers, who return to work after the birth of a first child. It is based on a study of couples who have combined the transition to parenthood with two full-time jobs in the labour market. The authors provide extensive personal ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • Marriages in Trouble

    The Process of Seeking Help

    by Julia Brannen, Jean Collard ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In the early 1980s it was fashionable to suggest that marriage as an institution was in trouble, but there were widely differing views as to whether or not this was really so. Originally published in 1982, this title started as a small-scale exploratory study of clients with marital problems and how they came to seek help. Using a sociological approach to marriage, the authors compare the medical ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Give and Take in Families

    Studies in Resource Distribution

    Edited by Julia Brannen, Gail Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Family
    Originally published in 1987, now with a new preface, the focus of this book is the distribution of material resources, notably money, work, care and food, within and between households. Hitherto, social policy research had tended to roll households and families into one and consider them as ‘private’ spheres which only connected with society via the male head of household – the ‘breadwinner’. ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Researching Family Narratives

    by Ann Phoenix, Julia Brannen, Corinne Squire ...
    This edited book guides students and researchers through the processes of researching everyday stories about families. Showcasing the wide range methods and data sources currently used in narrative research, it features:Examples of real research into historical and contemporary family practices from around the world.Coverage of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, like multi-method approaches ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods

    Edited by Leonard Bickman, Julia Brannen, Pertti Alasuutari ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in one volume.The Handbook includes chapters on each phase of the research process: research design, methods of data collection, and the processes of analyzing and interpreting data. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Absolute Poverty in Europe

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon

    by Gottfried Schweiger, Christian Neuhäuser, Elena Pribytkova, Guillem Fernandez Evangelista, Anna Sofia Salonen, Tiina Silvasti, Stephanos Papanastasiou, Ruth McAreavey, Carlos Pitillas, Julia Brannen0, Rebecca O'Connell1, Nessa Winston2, Patricia Kennedy3, Ursula Trummer4, Robert Walker5, Tuba Bircan6, Ingrid Schockaert7, Ides Nicaise8, Oleksandr Movshuk9, Jonathan Bradshaw0, Lena Dominelli1 ...
    Engaging systematically with severe forms of poverty in Europe, this important book stimulates academic, public and policy debate by shedding light on aspects of deprivation and exclusion of people in absolute poverty in affluent societies. It examines issues such as access to health care, housing and nutrition, poverty related shame, and violence.The book investigates different policy and civic ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Social Research Matters

    A Life in Family Sociology

    by Julia Brannen ...
    Series series Sociology of Children and Families
    From the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is conducted and ‘matters’ at particular times. This fascinating work covers key developments in the field that remain of vital concern to society and demonstrates how social research is an art as well as a science – a process that involves craft and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Food, Families and Work

    by Dr Rebecca O'Connell, Professor Julia Brannen ...
    With dual-working households now the norm, Food, Families and Work is the first comprehensive study to explore how families negotiate everyday food practices in the context of paid employment.As the working hours of British parents are among the highest in Europe, the United Kingdom provides a key case study for investigating the relationship between parental employment and family food practices. ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research

    Edited by Julia Brannen ...
    This book focuses on a key issue in the methodology of the social and behavioural sciences: the mixing of different research methods. The extent to which qualitative and quantitative research differ from one another has long been a subject of debate. Although many methodologists have concluded that the two approaches are not mutually exclusive, there are few books on either the theory or the ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Children, Research And Policy

    Edited by Basil Bernstein, Julia Brannen ...
    First Published in 1996. Research on childhood is a growing area of interest in social policy. Covering both familial and institutional settings, this book explores relevant issues, including the female workforce and changing family forms. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Young Europeans, Work and Family

    Edited by Julia Brannen, Susan Lewis, Anne Nilsen ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young people's pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives.This enlightening book investigates young people from a range of social classes and at various phases in their life: in training, in higher education, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Children In Families

    Research And Policy

    by Julia Brannen, Margaret O'Brien ...
    Much academic work on families and households has focused in the past on the adult members. However, a surge of interest in children's issues has occurred recently in the social sciences. A key theoretical assumption in this area of research is that children's relationships and cultures are worthy of study in their own right and that children play an active part in the construction of these ... Read more

    $87.99 USD