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 Future of Families to 2030
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-01-16
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789264118218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report explores likely future changes in family and household structures in OECD countries; identifies the main forces shaping the family landscape to 2030; discusses the longer-term challenges; and suggests policy options for managing the challenges.
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.
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.
Family Violence From a Global Perspective
Author: Sylvia M. Asay
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1483320642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis one-of-a-kind edited collection draws on the expertise of authors from 16 countries representing 17 cultures to tell the story of domestic violence in their respective parts of the world. The book incorporates a strengths-based approach, including individual, relationship, community, and societal strengths. The collection draws on multiple perspectives (academics, counselors, organizers, activists, and victims) to determine strengths and analyze how they can translate into greater safety for victims, increased accountability of perpetrators, and improved policy formation and research. Each chapter focuses on the lived experiences of victims of intimate partner violence, child abuse, or elder abuse and includes information about the abuser, the family, the community, and the culture.
