Sociology & Social Policy

The International Library of Sociology (ILS) is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940s by Karl Mannheim, the series became the forum for pioneering research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and analysis of new disciplines, such as the sociolo..

The central theme of this volume is accountability for outcomes, a driving force in child welfare as well as in other public and private service fields. It should be of interest to all concerned in the social welfare of children and families at the start of the 21st century...

Family Group Conferencing..

Family Group Conferencing..

Family Love in the Diaspora..

This sociological study explores how Australian families displaying different mobilities reconcile their career and education projects, to what effect. Defence families are moved frequently, absorbing institutional stresses as private troubles. In contrast, the selective mobility of middle class pro..

Family Social Welfare..

Published in 1998, the aim of this book is to identify and explore key themes and issues around the realm of welfare practice in child and family social work - that is, family centre services and related community-based types of provision...

Family Therapy and Chronic Illness..

Family Therapy and Chronic Illness..

Family Worlds..

This collection of papers from aproject of the National Museumof Ethnology in Japan, unitesanthropologists in an internationalcollaborative effort to reexaminethe dynamics of family, ethnicity,and the nation-state in China andin overseas Chinese society...