This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous
and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children's lives …

Recent quantitative investigations consistently single out considerable gender variations in
the experience of loneliness in Australia, and in particular how men are especially prone to …

Caring for children 140 Grandparents caring for grandchildren 143 Caring for grandchildren
after separation or divorce 148 Relationship breakdown 149 Caring for parents 151 …

Sociologists and psychologists now agree on the significance of belonging to the
experience of loneliness. Yet to date, this is unevenly reflected in both survey instruments …

Over the past few decades the social and cultural sciences have experienced a number of
incursions, often named as so many “turns”. Among them are Marxism, the linguistic turn and …

Survival sex, commonly understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, is a
practice that is associated with young homeless women. However, such a narrow definition …

Contemporary Western societies are characterized by 'until further notice'relationships (and
precarious or very loose social bonds), historically high levels of mobility of both capital and …

This book–a second volume in a planned series of (so far) three volumes dedicated to the
exploration of emotions–deals with a number of emotions that are found, elicited, expressed …

How do grandparents spend their child-care time? We examine how the composition of
grandparent child care differs from parent child care, and whether child-care composition is …

Avhandlingen utforsker hvordan markebygdingene som bor i de samiske markebygdene i
nordre Nordland og Sør-Troms ordner seg i hverdagslivet når det gjelder helse-og …