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  • Grandparenting Practices Around the World

    Reshaping family

    by Lucie Vidovićová, Lucie Galcanova, Esther CL Goh, Merril Silverstein, Vern Bengston, April L Few-Demo, Megan L Dolbin-MacNab, Ilkka Pietila, Hanna Ojala, Judith E Brown, Myra Hamilton, Lyn Craig, Dovile Vildaite, Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Jaco Hoffman, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, John Knodel, Karen Glaser, Giorgio Di Gessa, Eloi Ribe, Debora Price, Bruno Arpino, Rachel Margolis ...
    This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society

    From Generation to Generation

    Edited by Merril Silverstein, Roseann Giarrusso ...
    According to family sociologist Vern Bengtson, generations within families are important sources of influence, change, and development.Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society brings together scholars whose common link is their intellectual intersection with the work of Vern Bengtson, an esteemed family sociologist whose accomplishments include foundational theoretical contributions to the study of ... Read more

    $58.19 USD

  • Aging Families in Chinese Society

    Edited by Merril D. Silverstein ...
    Series series Society and Aging Series
    Declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make China one of the more rapidly aging societies in the world. Aging Families in Chinese Society focuses on the accelerated social and demographic changes in China and examines their implications for family care and support for older adults.Contributors to this landmark volume portray various ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging

    Edited by Merril Silverstein, Vern Bengtson ...
    New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging expands the traditional focus of religiosity to include and evaluate recent research and discoveries on the role of secular spirituality in the aging process. Contributors examine the ways conventional religion and other forms of spirituality affect human development, health and longevity, and they demonstrate how myth-creation enables humans to ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Handbook of Theories of Aging

    Edited by Merril Silverstein, PhD, Norella Putney, PhD, Daphna Gans, PhD, Vern L. Bengtson ...
    The field of gerontology has often been criticized for being "data-rich but theory-poor." The editors of this book address this issue by stressing the importance of theory in gerontology. While the previous edition focused on multidisciplinary approaches to aging theory, this new edition provides cross-disciplinary, integrative explanations of aging theory: The contributors of this text have ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations

    Understanding Networks of Care

    Edited by Janet M. Wilmoth, Merril D. Silverstein ...
    Series series Society and Aging Series
    Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations offers current, multidisciplinary perspectives on social support and service provision to older Americans. The chapters trace how our understanding of social support among older adults has developed over the past 40 years and explore current gerontological research in the area. They consider how informal care ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Religious Change and Continuity Across Generations

    Passing on Faith in Families of Six European and North American Nations

    by Merril Silverstein, Christel Gärtner, Maria T. Brown, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Joseph Blankholm, Luca Bossi, Marcello Cabria0, Renzo Carriero1, RianSimone Harris2, Linda Hennig3, Dusty Hoesly4, Woosang Hwang5, Jacob Legault-Leclair6, Francesco Molteni7, Olaf Müller8, Roberta Ricucci9, Gergely Rosta0, Jenni Spännäri1, Virág Sövegjártó2, Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky3, Kati Tervo-Niemelä4, Peter Beyer5 ...
    Religious Change and Continuity Across Generations: Passing on Faith in Families of Six European and North American Nations brings together scholars of religious studies, secularism, and family science to examine how religion is passed down the generations in six European and North American nations. Taking a social change perspective within the context of family socialization theory, the authors ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Connecting Families?

    Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course

    by Elizabeth B. Silva, Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller, Alexia Maddox, Sondra Cuban, Larissa Hjorth, Jolynna Sinanan, Brianna Routh, Sangbo Nam, Woosang Hwang, Megan Gilligan, J. Jill Suitor, Merril Silverstein, Siyun Peng, Alexandra Sanders, Diana Carvalho, Ron Baecker, Amanda Du Preez, Renwen Zhang, Hua Wang, Anabel Quan-Haase, Geoffrey Mead, Karolina A Kazimierczak, Natasha S Mauthner ...
    Are Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) connecting families? And what does this mean in terms of family routines, relationships, norms, work, intimacy and privacy?This edited collection takes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and strong structuration theory, and methodology, including digital and cross-disciplinary methods. It presents ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Aging, Media, and Culture

    by C. Lee Harrington, Anthony R. Bardo, Rebecca G. Adams, Anne L. Balazs, Shyon Baumann, Nathalie Claessens, Kim de Laat, Justine Gunderson, Justin Harmon, Stephen Katz, Barbara L. Marshall, Leni Marshall, Rosa Martey, Kelly Quinn, Alexandra Raphael, Cornel Sandvoss, Christine Scodari, Merril Silverstein, Aagje Swinnen, Denise Bielby, Anne Barrett, Hilde Van den Bulck ...
    The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Role of the Father in Child Development

    Edited by Michael E. Lamb ...
    The Definitive reference on the important role fathers play in child development todayEdited by Dr. Michael Lamb—the recognized authority on the role of fathers in child development, The Role of the Father in Child Development, Fifth Edition brings together contributions from international experts on each subject to provide a thorough and current summary of the state of fatherhood across cultures, ... Read more

    $100.00 USD

  • Experience Research Social Change

    Critical Methods, Third Edition

    by Colleen Reid, Lorraine Greaves, Sandra Kirby ...
    Experience Research Social Change is a “how to” guide to research that also raises broader theoretical, methodological, and ethical questions. First published in 1989, it was the first critical methods book, and continues to inspire generations of researchers, students, and community workers.The third edition has been thoroughly revised, now containing twelve chapters organized into three parts: ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Handbook of Father Involvement

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Second Edition

    Edited by Natasha J. Cabrera, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda ...
    This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade. Contributors from a range of disciplines and countries showcase contemporary findings within a new common chapter structure. All of the chapters are either extensively revised or entirely new. Biological, evolutionary, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD