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Evolving households :the imprint of technology on life
The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models.In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that technological progress has had as significant an effect on households as it had on industry. Taking a macroeconomic perspective, Greenwood develops simple economic models to study such phenomena as …
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages)
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Families at play connecting and learning through video games
"How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connecti…
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Heredity, Family, and Inequality: A Critique of Social Sciences
Empirical literature in disciplines ranging from behavioural genetics to economics shows that in virtually every aspect of life the outcomes of children are correlated to a greater or lesser extent with the outcomes of their parents. Beenstock offers theoretical and methodological tools for understanding these correlations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262301385
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- 1 online resource (viii, 474 pages) :illustrations
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In visible presence :Soviet afterlives in family photos
"How Soviet-era family photographs complicate official historical memory-producing forms of individual agency within controlled narratives of history"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Families on the edge :experiences of homelessness and care in rural new england
"Follows the experiences of families who have experienced homelessness in New England, tracing their struggles to maintain stable housing and their engagements with mental health and social services"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The wired homestead :an MIT Press sourcebook on the Internet and the family
"The use of the internet in homes rivals the advent of the telephone, radio, or television in social significance. Daily use of the World Wide Web and e-mail is taken for granted in many families, and the computer-linked internet is becoming an integral part of the physical and audiovisual environment. The internet's features of personalization, interactivity, and information abundance raise pr…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 502 pages).
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The Changing Faces of Families Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts
With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and ""family-f…
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New Social Mobility Second Generation Pioneers in Europe
This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…
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