Family Sociology

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    • By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Historians have only recently awakened to the importance of the family, the basic social unit throughout human history. This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era....

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    • How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters
    • By: Linda Flanagan
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Some 75% of American families want their kids to play sports. Athletics are training grounds for character, friendship, and connection; at their best, sports insulate kids from hardship and prepare them for adult life.

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    • A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success
    • By: Susan Dominus
    • Narrated by: Susan Dominus
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • What explains those rare families that boast multiple children who achieve extraordinary success? An award-winning New York Times journalist weaves story with science to explore the circumstances that set those families apart.

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    • Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief
    • By: Pauline Boss PhD
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In this sensitive and lucid account, Pauline Boss explains that, all too often, those confronted with ambiguous loss fluctuate between hope and hopelessness. But the central message of this book is that they can move on....

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    • What the Bonds among Brothers and Sisters Reveal about Us
    • By: Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Nobody affects us as deeply as our brothers and sister - not parents, not children, not friends....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62,777 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • The Intense Experience of Family Therapy
    • By: Augustus Y. Napier PhD, Carl A. Whitaker MD - contributor
    • Narrated by: Derek Shoales
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family's therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families and gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 695 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
    • By: Sophie Lewis
    • Narrated by: Sophie Lewis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for, and accepted? What if we could do better than the family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain....

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    • By: Alvin Toffler
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair...a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials....

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    • A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
    • By: Eve Rodsky
    • Narrated by: Eve Rodsky
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 993 ratings
    • Fair Play is a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up chores and responsibilities....

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    • Daughters Discuss Life, Love, and Why Losing a Dad Means So Much
    • By: Elyce Wakerman
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Father Loss provides the clearest portrait yet of a very special group of women. As a group, they express their insecurities....

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    • A Revolution in Parenting
    • By: Shefali Tsabary Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Shefali Tsabary Ph.D.
    • Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,139 ratings
    • In The Awakened Family, I show you how you can cultivate a relationship with your children so they can thrive; moreover, you can be transformed to a state of greater calm....

    $20.25 or free with 30-day trial

    • How Love Conquered Marriage
    • By: Stephanie Coontz
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers....

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    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….

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    • A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy
    • By: John M. Gottman PhD
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Here one will find not only a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures, but also a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment program. In addition, there are dozens of questionnaires and interview protocols to be used in both assessment and intervention....

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    • How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
    • By: Madeline Levine PhD
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of mental illness....

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    • The Fate of Romance over Time
    • By: Stephen A. Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • A fascinating look at the key components of romantic love that argues that romance does not diminish in a long-term relationship, describes the barriers to lasting love, and offers helpful advice on how to promote an enduring love by eliminating self-destructive efforts....

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