Introduction to Rural Welfare in China. - Research framework and methodology -- Welfare concepts and systems -- Historical studies of the Chinese welfare system -- Traditional Chinese Rural Welfare -- Ancient families and communities -- The state and traditional thoughts -- Driven by missionary, the republic government, and intellectuals in modern times -- The Socialist Welfare System under Pla…
Return Migration Decision Making: Theoretical Considerations -- Chinese Migration to Japan: Then and Now -- A Conceptualization of (Locational) Decision-Making Processes -- Impact of Career, Family and Lifestyle Factors on Migrants’ Locational Decisions. .Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in…
Chapter 1: Content and scope -- Chapter 2: Working lives of men aged 60 and older; Chapter 3: Working lives of men aged 45–60 -- Chapter 4 Working lives of men aged 45 and younger -- Chapter 5: Old age fears or concerns -- Chapter 6: Old age plans -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- .This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1…
1. Introduction -- 2. Family structures and relationships -- 3. Families and welfare: public and private transfers -- 4. The extent and nature of lifetime gifts -- 5. The impacts of, and motivations for, lifetime gifts -- 6. Social norms on financial obligations within families -- 7. Public attitudes to different generations -- 8. Discussion: inter-generational gifts, family life and the role …
1. Defining and Theorizing about Household Mobility -- 2. Historical and Recent Trends in American Mobility -- 3. Characteristics of the Mobile Population -- 4. Household Mobility Decisions and Location Choice -- 5. Individual- and Family-Level Mobility Effects -- 6. Mobility Effects and Cumulative Mobility Contexts -- 7. Spatial and Community Consequences -- 8. Policy Initiatives, Programs, an…
Introduction -- TV Dating as a Mediated Dating Text -- Desires and Anxieties in Self-centred Relationships -- Relationship Ethics -- Gendered and Generational Differences towards Relationships -- Conclusion.This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world’s fastest growing economy. …
Introduction; Vida Česnuitytė, Eric D. Widmer, Detlev Lück -- PART I EXPLANATION OF FAMILY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- 1 Approaches to the study of family life: Practices, context and narrative; Julia Brannen -- 2. Family salience across nations: Configurations of morphological conditions; Eric D. Widmer, Olga Ganjour -- 3 Cultural conceptions of family as inhibitors of change in family lives: …
1. Introduction -- Part I: Contextualizing Fatherhood -- 2. Theoretical explorations of fatherhood -- 3. Fatherhood and welfare state regimes -- Part II: Fatherhood in Transition -- 4. Images of fatherhood -- 5. Breadwinners and new fathering practices -- 6. Internet and the new landscape of fatherhood -- 7. Parenthood after divorce -- 8. Gay fatherhood -- 9. Transnational fatherhood -- Part II…
This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arr…
1. Introduction: “I Wish I Was a Bird” -- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far” -- 3. My Methodological Approach: “It Reminds Me of Lots of Things” -- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: “I Had Bigger Am…