The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

<p>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.</p> <ul> <li>Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families</li> <li>Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents</li> <li>Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians</li> <li>Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe</li> <li>Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated</li> </ul>