Author : Rukmalie Jayakody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 080586069X
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Karen Oppenheim Mason
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men in contemporary industrial societies. Of central concern is whether change in gender roles has fuelled - or is merely historically coincident with - such changes in the family as rising divorce rates, increases in out-of-wedlock childbearing, declining marriage rates, and a growing disconnection between the lives of men and children. Covering more than twenty countries, including the USA, the countries of western Europe, and Japan, each essay in the volume is organized around an important theoretical or policy question; all offer new data or analyses, and several offer prescriptions on how to fashion more equitable and humane family and gender systems. The second demographic transition and the microeconomic theory of marital exchange are the dominant theoretical models considered; several chapters feature state-of-the-art quantitative analyses of large-scale surveys.
Author : Marcia Carlson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804770891
This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.
Author : D. Nicole Farris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030350797
This handbook provides a global perspective on contemporary demographic theories and studies of marriage and the family. Inside, readers will find a comprehensive analysis that enables demographic comparison between and across international borders. Coverage is centered around four main sections that present a history of marriage and the family, detail relevant data and measurement concerns, examine global marriage practices, analyze interactions of such demographic characteristics as age, sex, and race with marriage and the family, and consider public policy, contemporary trends, and future directions. In addition, the book includes research on current social issues such as alternative family structures, cohabitation, divorce, boomerang children, and adoption. The family is universal but extremely varied in form and function. This handbook provides students, researchers, and policymakers with an all-inclusive, international demographic analysis that fully investigates the diverse nature of the modern family.
Author : Steven A.Y. Poelmans
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135614962
The entrance of women into managerial positions in significant numbers brings work and family issues to center stage, shifting the spotlight from issues of entry and equality of access to the consideration of the work-family conflicts and the difficulties posed on female managers. Looking at new approaches to enhance the work-family interface individually and in the firm, Work and Family: An International Research Perspective: *provides an overview on the antecedents of work-family conflict and the major consequences of work-family conflict, for well-being, productivity, and the strength of the relationship with the firm; *discusses the migrant's work and family experiences in terms of the demands, opportunities, and constraints they face and the role of work-family culture in reconciling the demands of work and family in organizations; *presents descriptive data concerning the linkages between work-family pressure and several known correlates and the differences in reported levels of each of these variables; *explores the work-life balance challenges and opportunities created by global assignments; *examines the work-family interface of the Western model and urban sub-saharan Africa; *emphasizes the importance of organizational change to the dynamics of work-family policies; and *highlights the progress in moving the field toward an open-systems perspective. Written by well-known contributors, this book offers international research in order to test the models mostly developed in the United States. In addition, it develops new models to capture the complexity and diversity of work-family experiences around the globe and explores cross-cultural topics.
Author : David J. Cuff
Publisher :
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental sciences
ISBN : 0195324889
In recent years, global change has become increasingly important in technological, ecological and political spheres. This companion examines the environmental events of recent times, and investigates long-term trends as well as broader issues of global change.
Author : Edith Olejnik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 365804876X
With growing international business, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been faced with increased competition, but also with enhanced opportunities. Edith Olejnik addresses four major issues within the context of SMEs’ internationalization process: First, she identifies the three different internationalization patterns that SMEs take and analyzes how these patterns develop over time. Second, she looks at dynamic changes of foreign operation modes and the managerial reasons for these changes. Third, she derives an empirical classification of smaller family firms and profiles them using a comprehensive set of organizational variables. Fourth, she investigates the relationship between firm-level processes and dynamic capabilities in driving the international performance of SMEs. Based on theoretical considerations and empirical analyses this work provides important implications for research and management practice.
Author : Marsha Garrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1107018277
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about marriage at a critical juncture. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists and legal scholars, the book will be a key text for anyone who seeks to understand marriage as a social institution and to evaluate proposals for marriage reform.
Author : Margaret S. Archer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111681033
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Author : Raelene Wilding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1350314587
Growing numbers of partners, parents, children, grandchildren and siblings are living far away from each other, yet their opportunities to stay in touch have never been greater. Smartphones, tablets and personal computers are used by parents in London to care for their children in the Philippines. Refugees use phones and international transfers to send money and support to parents overseas. Funerals, weddings and anniversaries prompt return visits by plane and are streamed online to kin around the world. The mechanisms and processes of globalization are transforming the ways in which people 'do' and think about their families. Families, Intimacy and Globalization examines their experiences, charting the tensions between the freedoms and choices of late modern individuals, on the one hand, and the constraints of relational ties of love and obligation, on the other, which produce the 'floating ties' of global families and intimate relationships. Using detailed examples from all corners of the globe and across the life course, from internet dating to parenting to aged care, this thought-provoking book examines the transformation of relationships by the processes of migration and the cultural and economic flows that are central to globalization.
