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Since 1971 the International Review of Modern Sociology (henceforth IRMS) has served as a prominent and significant publication for researchers and scholars. For this, we must express our deepest gratitude to Dr. M.S. Das whose tireless deeds helped sprout and nourish the publication, and gave it international recognition. Almost thirty-five years now, the publication – which a relatively new makeover – continues to be a magnet for a rich array of ...
In 2004some basic changes in the International Journal of Sociology of the Family marked a tangible turning point for the publication. With a totally new editorial adivsory board, a new publisher, and even a new look for the journals, my role as the new editor-in-chief of the journal was in earnest underway. Since its inception, the journal has been a mainstay in profiling scholarship and research on the sociology of the family, and this restructuring of the ...
Each of the chapters in this volume offers important insights into the family as a mediating structure of globalization. In their work on father presence in South Africa, Townsend, Madhavan and Garey describe the changing role of fathers in relation to the South African labor market and its emerging position in the global economy. And in a study of refugee families in Sierra Leone, Andrews notes the critical role played by children in how families cope with the ...