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Intimacies and Cultural Change
Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalization and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range of contemporary case studies, the book sheds light on the ways in which people draw on these cultural meanings in everyday life to account for their experiences and practices of intimacy in different social settings. An interdisciplinary volume, presenting the latest research on the region from experts working in diverse fields within the social sciences, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and social psychology with interests in gender and sexuality, social change and contemporary intimate relationships.
Families in a Global Context
Learn what trends and factors are influencing families globally How are families the same or different around the world? Families in a Global Context puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an in-depth comparative analysis of family life in 17 countries around the world. Contributors discuss different countries' family life by using a standard framework to review major influences and patterns. The framework allows readers to do comparative reflection across several countries on a variety of daily living elements, including social and economic forces such as urbanization and modernization, changes in gender/courtship/spousal patterns, and war. This book provides an ...
Global Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families
Zusammenfassung: This edited volume examines the adolescent period across multiple cultural settings, and in a range of contemporary contexts (e.g., rural-vs-urban, political unrest/war, rapid globalization). It employs a multi-disciplinary lens, while addressing traditional issues (e.g., identity development) and recently emergent ones (e.g., social media). It contains four main sections: 1) adolescence and families in contexts with rapidly shifting societies/norms, 2) adolescence and families in the context of socio-political crisis and upheaval, 3) adolescence and families in the context of individual stress and strain, and 4) adolescent Identity development in the family and in transitio...
Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also includes a 'global' section, which includes chapters that are globally relevant — rather than those devoted to a particular country or geographic location. The content of each volume, as well as each cha...
Acercamientos multidisciplinarios a las emociones
El libro, Acercamientos Multidisciplinarios a las Emociones, es el resultado de un trabajo conjunto de colegas provenientes de distintos campos disciplinarios interesados en el estudio de las emociones. Este tema requiere hoy en día —como la mayor parte de los distintos temas de investigación— ser analizado considerando lo que han aportado las diferentes disciplinas, enfoques conceptuales y metodológicos, aproximaciones cuantitativas y cualitativas, y las evidencias empíricas arrojadas por todos ellos en su análisis. El objetivo central del libro es presentar esa variedad de miradas y resultados con el fin de tener una mayor comprensión sobre la naturaleza de las emociones, sus diferentes aspectos y sus condicionantes sociales y culturales.
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