International Family Change
Author: Rukmalie Jayakody
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 080586069X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America
Author: Marcia Carlson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-06-21
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0804770891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.
International Handbook on the Demography of Marriage and the Family
Author: D. Nicole Farris
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 3030350797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook provides a global perspective on contemporary demographic theories and studies of marriage and the family. Inside, readers will find a comprehensive analysis that enables demographic comparison between and across international borders. Coverage is centered around four main sections that present a history of marriage and the family, detail relevant data and measurement concerns, examine global marriage practices, analyze interactions of such demographic characteristics as age, sex, and race with marriage and the family, and consider public policy, contemporary trends, and future directions. In addition, the book includes research on current social issues such as alternative family structures, cohabitation, divorce, boomerang children, and adoption. The family is universal but extremely varied in form and function. This handbook provides students, researchers, and policymakers with an all-inclusive, international demographic analysis that fully investigates the diverse nature of the modern family.
The Interaction Between Family Law, Succession Law and Private International Law
Author: Jens Scherpe
Publisher: European Family Law
Published: 2021-01-04
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781780689845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together a range of views on the reciprocal influences of substantive and private international law in the fields of family and succession law. It outlines some key elements of this interplay in selected jurisdictions and provides a basis for discussion and future work on the reciprocal influences of domestic and European law.
The Oxford Companion to Global Change
Author: David J. Cuff
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 715
ISBN-13: 0195324889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, global change has become increasingly important in technological, ecological and political spheres. This companion examines the environmental events of recent times, and investigates long-term trends as well as broader issues of global change.
International Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Author: Edith Olejnik
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2014-01-27
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 365804876X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith growing international business, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been faced with increased competition, but also with enhanced opportunities. Edith Olejnik addresses four major issues within the context of SMEs’ internationalization process: First, she identifies the three different internationalization patterns that SMEs take and analyzes how these patterns develop over time. Second, she looks at dynamic changes of foreign operation modes and the managerial reasons for these changes. Third, she derives an empirical classification of smaller family firms and profiles them using a comprehensive set of organizational variables. Fourth, she investigates the relationship between firm-level processes and dynamic capabilities in driving the international performance of SMEs. Based on theoretical considerations and empirical analyses this work provides important implications for research and management practice.
Work and Family
Author: Steven A.Y. Poelmans
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005-03-23
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 1135614962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe entrance of women into managerial positions in significant numbers brings work and family issues to center stage, shifting the spotlight from issues of entry and equality of access to the consideration of the work-family conflicts and the difficulties posed on female managers. Looking at new approaches to enhance the work-family interface individually and in the firm, Work and Family: An International Research Perspective: *provides an overview on the antecedents of work-family conflict and the major consequences of work-family conflict, for well-being, productivity, and the strength of the relationship with the firm; *discusses the migrant's work and family experiences in terms of the demands, opportunities, and constraints they face and the role of work-family culture in reconciling the demands of work and family in organizations; *presents descriptive data concerning the linkages between work-family pressure and several known correlates and the differences in reported levels of each of these variables; *explores the work-life balance challenges and opportunities created by global assignments; *examines the work-family interface of the Western model and urban sub-saharan Africa; *emphasizes the importance of organizational change to the dynamics of work-family policies; and *highlights the progress in moving the field toward an open-systems perspective. Written by well-known contributors, this book offers international research in order to test the models mostly developed in the United States. In addition, it develops new models to capture the complexity and diversity of work-family experiences around the globe and explores cross-cultural topics.
Marriage at the Crossroads
Author: Marsha Garrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-15
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1107018277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about marriage at a critical juncture. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists and legal scholars, the book will be a key text for anyone who seeks to understand marriage as a social institution and to evaluate proposals for marriage reform.
Current research in sociology
Author: Margaret S. Archer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 3111681033
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Families, Intimacy and Globalization
Author: Raelene Wilding
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-03-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1350314587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing numbers of partners, parents, children, grandchildren and siblings are living far away from each other, yet their opportunities to stay in touch have never been greater. Smartphones, tablets and personal computers are used by parents in London to care for their children in the Philippines. Refugees use phones and international transfers to send money and support to parents overseas. Funerals, weddings and anniversaries prompt return visits by plane and are streamed online to kin around the world. The mechanisms and processes of globalization are transforming the ways in which people 'do' and think about their families. Families, Intimacy and Globalization examines their experiences, charting the tensions between the freedoms and choices of late modern individuals, on the one hand, and the constraints of relational ties of love and obligation, on the other, which produce the 'floating ties' of global families and intimate relationships. Using detailed examples from all corners of the globe and across the life course, from internet dating to parenting to aged care, this thought-provoking book examines the transformation of relationships by the processes of migration and the cultural and economic flows that are central to globalization.
