Reviews by subject area
Review
Inequality: The Costs to Families
December 2018
Frances Goldscheider, University Professor of Sociology, emerita, Brown University;
How do economic problems affect family stability? The books reviewed tackle changes in gender roles at work and the instability generated by socioeconomic inequality.
Review
Arriving in Rural Village Communities, Staying There or Leaving
December 2016
Montserrat Soronellas Masdeu, Rovira i Virgili University;
How should migration within the European context be studied? These two books, from the standpoints of gender and rurality, tackle a phenomenon previously studied above all in urban contexts with male protagonists. With these new perspectives, the scientific view offers extra depth to an issue of recent social importance.