Men for Tomorrow

• • Delinquency, Gangs and Family Life

    

    for most boys the key factor pulling out of gangs and settling back into family-based lives is getting a regular girlfriend

    

  • Male Employment and Family Life

    

    Male employment: evidence shows that family men with partners and children are more likely to hold down jobs

    

  • Family and Kinship in East london

    

    Vivid picture of family life in the East End of the 1950s, one of the great pioneering works of modern sociology.

    

  • Sociology of the family

    

    Over the last 30 years or so, men have become increasingly written out of social policies relating to family life. But that may be about to change.

    

  • Trust a woman

    

    The housewife has a more productive role than we suspect...

    

  • Hephaistos and Hera

    

    Hephaistos... disowned son of the gods or inventor of human society and technology?

    

  • British Social Attitudes

    

    ...the annual British Social Attitudes survey carried out by the National Centre for Social Research

    

  • The progressive conscience

    

    The feminist drive for equality in the workplace is not what many women want

    

  • Boys' Education

    

    Over the last three decades, boys in the UK have been falling ever further behind girls at school; in state schools especially.

    

  Featured Articles

Grandparents Report

Geoff Dench has contributed to a recent report for Grandparents Plus published in June 2009 which digests findings from the British Social Attitudes Survey…

Using new British Social Attitudes data, the the report begins to build a more comprehensive picture of Britain’s grandparent population; looking at how it has changed over the last decade, and what financial implications becoming a grandparent might involve. In doing so it lays an important foundation for further work exploring the relationship between grandparenting and economic hardship.

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