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  • Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese, Premium Second Edition

    by Xiaozhou Wu ...
    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The go-to guide to Chinese—now with streaming audio of spoken Chinese that dramatically improves your pronunciation skillsWhether you are learning on your own with a textbook or taking a beginning class, Practice ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Fertility and Childcare in East Asia

    Gender Dynamics and Intergenerational Support

    Edited by Xiaogang Wu, Muzhi Zhou, Man-Yee Kan ...
    This textbook explores recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, intergenerational support, and family in select East Asian societies, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.East Asian societies have been undergoing rapid economic development over the last three decades, whether gender (couple) relations and families in East Asian societies have also been undergoing ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and the Family

    by Samuel Noh, Ann Kim, Marianne Noh ...
    Series series Asian Canadian Studies
    Koreans are one of the fastest-growing visible minority groups in Canada today. However, very few studies of their experiences in Canada or their paths of integration are available to public and academic communities. Korean Immigrants in Canada provides the first scholarly collection of papers on Korean immigrants and their offspring from interdisciplinary, social scientific perspectives.The ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • 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

  • Families in Today's World

    A Comparative Approach

    by David Cheal ...
    An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia

    Edited by Stella R. Quah ...
    Research on the family has expanded considerably across Asia but studies tend to be fragmented, focusing on narrow issues within limited areas (cities, towns, small communities) and may not be accessible to international readers. These limitations make it difficult for researchers, students, policy makers, and practitioners to obtain the information they need. The Routledge Handbook of Families in ... Read more

    $68.99 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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  • Beyond Filial Piety

    Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

    Edited by Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore, Hong Zhang ...
    Series Book 6 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mixed methods data, this volume explores the complexities of aging and caregiving in contemporary East ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

    Edited by Aart C. Liefbroer, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for adult outcomes differ across societies, and whether these differences are shaped by the “context of opportunities” that societies ... Read more

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  • Whither the Child?

    Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility

    by Eric P. Kaufmann, W. Bradford Wilcox ...
    Birth rates are falling and fertility rates are well below replacement levels. At the same time, the economic crisis has forced governments to scale back public spending, reduce child support, and raise the retirement age, causing immense social conflict. Taking a step outside the disciplinary comfort zone, Whither the Child? asks how demography affects individuals and society. What does it feel ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

    International Lessons and Policy Implications

    by Jooha Lee, Hyejin Choi, Jaehyoung Park, Mi Young An, Jieun Lee, Ijin Hong, Niccolo Durazzi, Young Jun Choi, Kim Yun-Young, Sonia Exley0, Sung-Hee Lee1, Sam Mohun-Himmelweit2 ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Journey to Adulthood

    East Asian Perspectives

    Edited by Chin-Chun Yi, Ming-Chang Tsai ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood. They are spending longer in school, entering the labour market later, and getting married later still.This protracted young adulthood interacts with forces of both tradition and modernization, as social and economic changes generate profound effects on the transition from school to work, on family ... Read more

    $28.79 USD