Sociologi: familie og relationer

The evocative parable of Hope & Luna delves deeply into the transformative journey of Hope, a woman navigating the intricate maze of personal relationships, self-worth, and self-discovery. Luna, Hope's diary, metaphorical beacon, and inner voice, silently echoes Hope's thoughts and feelings, and their bond reflects Hope's evolving relationship with herself as she discovers the power that comes with transformation.Join Hope as she confronts her flaws and negative patterns in relationships and immerses herself in self-reflection and growth. Raw, authentic, and grounded, Hope & Luna is a unique blend of introspection and inspiration--a journey that resonates with every woman who has ever sought answers to the "whys" about her bad relationships and tried and failed to listen to her inner voice. For every reader seeking a path to self-discovery, their power within, and a future built on self-esteem and confidence, Hope's journey will inspire you.

This book is a vital new resource in the sociological study of family life in the 21st century. The chapters in this volume explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences, such as personal choices about reproduction and how life choices and family forms are mediated by factors including geographical location, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, income and government policy.Through a series of evidence-based chapters, leading sociologists explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences and the contexts within which they are lived and experienced. Each chapter delves into the lives and experiences of people whose choices in some way seem to disrupt normative and traditional ideas of family, parenting and childhood. Family patterns and experiences of living apart together, troubled families, children in care, culture, coupledom, same-sex families and digital technology are covered and examined innovatively through theoretical engagement.Chapters also incorporate innovative technologies and their use within family spaces that shape the nature of human relationships and interactions. These negotiations within the family are globally contextualised within the political and ideological frameworks of societies at any given moment in time. The work recognises the sensitivity of family and personal lives and incorporates the increasing need of the impact of emotionality that forms part of knowledge production. Additionally, innovative methods are showcased in chapters on researching the family through socially just methods, researcher emotionality and visual data.By bringing together thought-provoking research findings and innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, this collection of essays raises and articulates relevant, timely and future thinking for its readers. This book will therefore be indispensable for students and researchers as well as professionals and policymakers interested in understanding family life in the 21st century.

This edited book highlights the identities and practices of ethnically diverse families and schools in contexts where multicultural policies are not always a priority. In an era of globalization and ensuing population mobility, it places a focus on Asia-Pacific, a continent with diverse customs, populations, and languages, but grapples with what it might mean to be multicultural.The book features studies and frameworks that illustrate how minoritized communities engage with the diversity they live in and strategies in adjusting and adapting to their sociocultural environments, including practices that might support these efforts. This book represents initiatives and interdisciplinary scholarship from Japan, Hong Kong, mainland China, Australia, South Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan, which underscore the intersection of identities, cultural values, efforts, conflicts, and religions in making diversity work in their contexts. Collectively, these works make a unique contribution by invigorating debates on the flows and evolvement of cultural values and practices within and across families and institutions.This book will appeal to researchers, practitioners, and readers with interest in the current state of cultural diversity among minoritized families in Asia-Pacific and beyond.

This book focuses on the diverse tapestry of families in contemporary U.S. culture. Each chapter explores a different kind of family and examines their specific communication behaviors.We live in times of increasing diversity that complicate our understandings of ourselves as well as others who may be quite different from us. These complexities also impact our definition of "family" in addition to our interpretation of family communication behaviors. This book provides an examination of family communication practices in families that are underrepresented in the research of the discipline, and underserved in U.S. culture: immigrant families; family members in interracial relationships; LGBTQ families; low-income Latinx families; families with an incarcerated parent; and families headed by grandparents. The book is an initial effort to expand the lens of family communication scholarship to focus on "families on the margins". Through a variety of, sometimes unique, methods including textual analysis, in-depth interviews, and analysis of art projects collected at a Pride festival, each chapter in this collection adds to our knowledge of how we define family and how families communicate in the 21st century.The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Family Communication.

This volume brings together interdisciplinary research, theoretical perspectives, and detailed explanations of paths and examples to help colleges become supportive spaces for pregnant and parenting students.

This book provides an up-to-date survey on the nature, causes, and patterns of family change. The traditional nuclear family has been replaced by a multiplicity of other forms, as widespread cohabitation, high levels of divorce and union dissolution, rising childlessness, and far below replacement fertility have emerged to an extent never before seen. Theoretical perspectives on this ¿Second Demographic Transition¿ are presented, highlighting the dramatic changes in gender roles. New methodological strategies for assessing family dynamics are presented, from multistate models of marriage and divorce combined with fertility to improved techniques for combining census and survey data on the family to a new approach for disentangling age, period, and cohort effects. While the volume emphasizes Western nations, insightful case studies range from analyzing family complexity in cohorts of parents and children in the UK to the impact of interpartner violence on family formation, to the emergence of a ¿gender war¿ in South Korea. By providing new insights into where we are today and how we got here, the book will be of value to all those interested in the contemporary family."Delayed Fertility as a Driver of Fertility Decline?" available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Trunk, Snout and Nosey is a book about kindness, working together for the greater good and sharing. Three baby elephants see a precious stone shining in the water of a riverbed. They all want it. They all try to claim it as their own. However, they find out a lot about themselves and learn a valuable lesson in the process.

Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award for NonfictionJamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.

Bei einem stationären Aufenthalt in einer Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie sind jugendliche Patient:innen und deren Familien mit verschiedenen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Neben der als ¿psychische Krankheit¿ gedeuteten Krisenkonstellation und damit verbundenen Leiden sind es die mit der Einbindung in psychiatrische Institutionen verknüpften Positionierungen, (diagnoseförmigen) Zuschreibungen sowie (familialen) Erwartungen, Hoffnungen und Ängste, mit denen sich Jugendliche vor dem Hintergrund adoleszenter Entwicklungs- und Individuationsprozesse auseinandersetzen müssen. Auf der Basis zweier Fallrekonstruktionen werden adoleszente Subjektbildungsprozesse im Spannungsfeld von familialen Dynamiken, gesellschaftlichen und insbesondere schulischen Transformations- und Normalitätsanforderungen sowie jugendpsychiatrischen Interventionen untersucht. Die Analysen stützen sich auf Interviews mit Jugendlichen und Familiengespräche, die im Längsschnitt durchgeführt wurden. Die qualitativ-rekonstruktive Studie leistet einen empirisch fundierten Beitrag zur sozialisations-, jugend- und familientheoretischen Frage nach der psychiatrisch moderierten und familial vermittelten Ver- und Bearbeitung psycho-sozialer Krisen in der Adoleszenz und der damit verknüpften (Re-)Strukturierung adoleszenter Selbstentwürfe.

This book describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way of work, the division of household labor, and family formation in Japan. One of the characteristics of Japanese employment practices is a stable employer¿employment relationship and seniority-based wage system. In return, long working hours, especially for men who are called ¿salarymen¿ (salaried workers, or ¿company men¿), are required. The pandemic has led to an expansion of telework and has reduced their working hours, which has made them return to their homes to work. In contrast, non-regular employees, who are mostly women, has become more unstable in employment and their incomes fell. This tendency has become even stronger under the pandemic.Compared with conditions in Western countries, in Japan wives have a greater responsibility for domestic chores. In the pandemic, as children's classes shifted to online and childcare support facilities were temporarily closed, the burden of housework and child-rearing increased for wives. However, husbands who worked from home shared a part of the housework, and popular home delivery services helped to reduce the burdens on wives. Japan is one of the developed countries with low fertility rates. Under the pandemic, many Japanese postponed starting a family, which further shrank the country¿s birthrate. There was a remarkably significant tendency to postpone having children among economically disadvantaged and socially isolated families.This book provides a portrait of Japan¿s experience regarding the notable impacts of the pandemic on work and family life.

Based on novel ethnographic research conducted in New York City, this book explores through the lens of intersectionality how gender impacts men¿s experiences of full-time fatherhood, as well as how sexuality, race, class, faith, and so on result in unequal access to choices and opportunities as parents. Chapters analyze how perspectives on caregiving are complicated by varying cultural, gendered, and racialized stereotypes and representations that pull different fathers toward or push them away from particular models of fatherhood in an urban context. Additionally, the author interrogates how societal conceptions of men¿s bodies also play a role in how men understand their experiences of fatherhood. This book will be of interest to scholars and students studying gender, masculinity, and fatherhood.

Die Familie unterliegt einem steten Wandel, und zwar sowohl im Hinblick auf ihre Form als auch auf ihre Bedeutung und nicht zuletzt ihre Regulierung durch legale, kulturelle, religiöse oder moralische Normen. Welche Formen der Beziehung als konstitutiv für die Familie angesehen werden, steht ebenso zur Diskussion wie die Frage der Anerkennung und des Schutzes der Familie und verschiedener Familienformen durch den Staat. Insbesondere Techniken der Reproduktion und Veränderungen des sozialen Gefüges in Loslösung der ¿klassischen¿ Kernfamilie haben eine Vielzahl an neuen Familienformen wie Patchworkfamilien, Co-Parenting-Familien oder Familien mit gleichgeschlechtlichen Elternpaaren ermöglicht und normalisiert. Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, verschiedene disziplinären Perspektiven aus den Sozial- und Rechtswissenschaften, der Theologie und Philosophie zusammenzubringen, die auf die Familie und ihren Wandel mit Blick auf ausgewählte Fragestellungen und Familienformen reflektieren ¿ wobei Co-Parenting und assistierte Reproduktion besonders im Fokus liegen.

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang von verschiedenen negativen Beziehungsaspekten bzw. spannungsgeladenen Interaktionsketten und subjektiver Gesundheit. Mit Daten aus der Mixed Methods Studie 'Gesichter der Armut' werden auf Basis fallimmanenter Dyadenportraits zunächst Idealtypen negativer Beziehungsaspekte herausgearbeitet. Die sprichwörtlich 'böse Schwiegermutter' entspricht dabei dem Typ 'Manipulativ'. Darauf aufbauend werden die Idealtypen in ein Messinstrument überführt. Auf Grundlage einer Random-Route-Stichprobe wurden in einer eigenen Studie egozentrierte Netzwerke erhoben und das Messinstrument mittels Faktorenanalyse quantitativ überprüft. Abschließend erfolgt die Analyse der Assoziation zwischen negativen Beziehungsaspekten und subjektiver Gesundheit mittels linearer Regressionsmodelle. Der Zusammenhang zwischen negativen Beziehungsaspekten und subjektiver mentaler Gesundheit erweist sich als frauenspezifisch und ist unabhängig vom Typ negativer Beziehungsaspekte.Es ist also weniger wichtig, ob es sich um die 'böse Schwiegermutter' oder den 'nervigen Nachbarn' handelt.