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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “karl lenz”
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  • The Sociology of Families

    Key Debates and Contending Perspectives

    Edited by Marina A. Adler, Karl Lenz ...
    Series series Key Debates and Contending Perspectives series
    This book examines current research on key issues widely debated in contemporary family sociology. Contributors present emerging perspectives on the dynamics and challenges related to changing family forms and increasing family diversity in various countries or regions. The analyses reveal the multidimensional nature of living arrangements, parenting, and policies in a context of long-term social ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Father Involvement in the Early Years

    An International Comparison of Policy and Practice

    by Eloise Poole, Matthew Aldrich, Svetlana Speight, Sara Connolly, Margaret O'Brien, Ziva Humer, Nada Stropnik, Maria Letizia Tanturri, Elisabetta Ruspini, Yve Stoebel-Richter, Petteri Eerola, Jouko Huttunen ...
    Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men’s own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live. This book explores these phenomena in the context of cross-national policies and their relation to the daily childcare practices of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Changing Faces of Families

    Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts

    Edited by Marina A. Adler, Karl Lenz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Family Sociology
    With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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  • 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

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens

    Public Opinion and Social Inequalities in Comparative and Relational Perspective

    by Christian Lahusen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between social and ... Read more

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  • Social Capital and European Democracy

    Edited by Marco Maraffi, Kenneth Newton, Jan Van Deth, Paul Whiteley ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    The authors of this work examine the dominant view that voluntary activity promotes social capital and hence good government, but also explore alternative models for the creation of social capital. Theoretical discussion is combined with detailed case studies to provide a new explanation of : * the origins and nature of social capital * its effects on political participation and policy-making * ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Engendering Migrant Health

    Canadian Perspectives

    by Denise L. Spitzer ...
    Voluntary migrants to Canada are generally healthier than the average Canadian, but after ten years in the country they report poorer health and higher rates of chronic disease than those born here. Troublingly, women — particularly those from non-European countries — experience the most precipitous decline in health. What contributes to this deterioration, and how can its effects be mitigated ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Women’s Health in Canada

    Challenges of Intersectionality, Second Edition

    Edited by Marina Morrow, Olena Hankivsky, Colleen Varcoe ...
    Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking an intersectional approach to women’s healthcare, this book also focuses on the social and structural determinants at play. This revised and updated second edition brings together a collection of new chapters and contributors who collectively shed light ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over The Life Course

    Edited by Mary Daly, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Neil Gilbert, Douglas J. Besharov ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Handbook examines contemporary trends and issues in the formation of families over the different stages of the life cycle and how they interact with family-oriented social policies of modern welfare states, mainly in the OECD countries of Western Europe, East Asia and the U.S. Focusing largely on family needs in the early stages of the life course, the conventional package of policies tends to ... Read more

    $182.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course

    Edited by Magda Nico, Gary Pollock ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.Inequalities are not static, easily measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life. They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Children's Rights

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Read more

    $267.99 CAD