Books and Literature

  • A Sociology of Family Life: Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations, 2nd Edition

    A Sociology of Family Life: Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations, 2nd Edition

    Deborah Chambers, Pablo Gracia ISBN: 9781509541355 – 9781509541362 2021, Polity   Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on ‘family’, parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties.A Sociology…

  • Politics, Protest and Young People Political Participation and Dissent in 21st Century Britain

    Politics, Protest and Young People Political Participation and Dissent in 21st Century Britain

    Sarah Pickard ISBN 978-1-137-57788-7 Palgrave Macmillan Sarah Pickard offers a detailed and wide-ranging assessment of electoral and non-electoral political participation of young people in contemporary Britain, drawing on perspectives and insights from youth studies, political science and political sociology.This comprehensive book enquires into the approaches used by the social sciences to understand young people’s politics…

  • Youth Development in Identity Societies Paradoxes of Purpose

    Youth Development in Identity Societies Paradoxes of Purpose

    James E. Cote ISBN: 9781138353312 Routledge, London  This book explores the causes and consequences of the contradictions in young people’s lives stemming from the affluence–purpose paradox: a lack of purpose-in-life among many of those living in the most affluent societies in human history. This paradox is endemic to identity societies where people experience a choice-contingent…

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Youth in BRICS Countries

    Handbook of the Sociology of Youth in BRICS Countries

    Tom Dwyer, Mikhail K Gorshkov, Ishwar Modi, Chunling Li, Mokong Simon Mapadimeng (Eds) ISBN: 978-981-3148-38-3 (hardcover) -ISBN: 978-981-3148-40-6 (ebook) World Scientific, 2018       Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home…