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Diversity in Families, 8/E
ISBN-10: 0205491561
ISBN-13: 9780205491568
Publisher: Pearson
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth; 576 pp
Published: 07/19/2007
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This award-winning text treats family diversity as the norm, while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships.
Diversity in Families looks at families not as “building blocks of societies” but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, “How do families really work?” and “Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?” Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas.
Features
- Emphasizes the influences of social forces on family forms, by highlighting the effects that race, class, gender, and sexuality have on family diversity.
- Chapter 1 reviews popular images, ideals, and myths about families.
- Coverage of human agency shows how family members respond to various social conditions and actively produce change in their family environments.
- Especially strong in its inclusion of feminist scholarship and conflict theory.
- “Emergent Family Trends” boxes look at new family patterns and their possible effects on future families.
- “Inside the Worlds of Diverse Families” boxes focus on global issues such as transnational families, conducting global research on families, and mini-ethnographies that help students learn about diverse families around the world.
- Strong pedagogy to support student learning includes an extensive box program, featuring “Families in Global Perspective,” “The Impact of New Technologies on Family Life,” “Researching Families,” “Emerging Family Trends,” “Inside the World of Diverse Families.”
- Outstanding author team, winner of the 2003 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award for excellence over multiple editions from the Text and Academic Authors Association.
New To This Edition
- Relevant and engaging examples have been added and refined throughout. New content includes:
- New discussion on the how and why of the shrinking of the middle class in chapter 4
- A new section on the social construction of childhood in chapter 9 covers emerging social forces that have changed the way children are raised
- Chapter 9 also includes an examination of recent structural changes and how middle class families are affected
- Updated weblinks encourage further reading and research
- Current statistics update discussions and new references highlight the latest research. Examples include:
- New research on the patterns of change in contemporary marriage in chapter 8
- Studies on motherhood and marriage and why poor women have children outside marriage
- New statistics on divorce and its effects on families
- Over 25 new photos and cartoons enhance a reader-friendly approach
- New online supplement--MyFamilyKit (www.myfamilykit.com). MyFamilyKit is an online resource that contains book-specific practice tests, chapter summaries, New York Times articles, audio and video activities, writing and research tutorials, and access to scholarly literature on families through Research Navigator. MyFamilyKit is available with Diversity in Families 8/e when a MyFamilyKit access code card shrinkwrapped with the text.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Images, Ideals, and Myths
Images and Ideals
Images and Reality
The Mythical American Family
A New Framework for Understanding Families
Additional Features of This Book
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
2. Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
Myths and Realities
Family and the New Social History
Family Life in Colonial America
The Emergence of Modern Family Life
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
3.The Historical Making of Family Diversity
Myths and Realities
Industrialization and Family Life
Immigration and Family Life
Racial Control and Family Life
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
4. Economic and Demographic Upheavals in Society and Family Formation
Myths and Realities
Globalization and the Structural Transformation of the Economy and Families
The New Immigration and the Changing Racial Landscape
The Aging of Society
The Three Structural Transformations of Society
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
5. Class, Race, and Gender
Myths and Realities
Class, Race, and Gender as Structured Inequalities
Class
Race
Gender
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
6.Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
Myths and Realities
The Changing Work Patterns of Women, Men, and Teens
Integrating Work and Family
Invisible and Unpaid Family Work
Coping with Work and Family
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
7. The Social Construction of Intimacy
Myths and Realities
Heterosexual Courtship and Mate Selection
Changing Sexual Behavior
Differentiated Forms of Intimacy
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
8. Contemporary Marriages
Myths and Realities
Marriage: Private and Public Spheres
Recent Trends
Are There Benefits to Marriage?
Micro Aspects of Marriage
Reconstructing Gender Roles: Building an Egalitarian Marriage
The Future of Marriage: Changing or Dying?
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
9. Parents and Children
Myths and Realities
The Social Construction of Parenting
The Social Construction of Childhood
Demographic Patterns
The Impact of Children on Marriage
The Impact of Parents on Children and of Children on Parents
The Structure of the Family Embedded in a Larger Network of Influences
Parents and Children in Dual-Earner Families
Single Parents and Their Children
Reprise: The Duality of Parenting
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
10. Violence in Families
Myths and Realities
Families in a Violent Society
Intimate Partner Violence
Child Abuse and Neglect
Incest
Sibling Abuse
Battered Elders
Macro and Micro Linkages
Agency
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
11. Divorce and Remarriage
Myths and Realties
Divorce Rates
Predicting the Divorce Rate: Up or Down?
The Consequences of Divorce for Spouses and Children
Remarriage after Divorce
The Politics of Divorce
Is Marriage a Failed Institution?
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
12. Emergent Families in the Global Era
Myths and Realities
The Rise in New Family Arrangements
Single Life
Heterosexual Cohabitation
Same-Sex Partners and Families
Families Separated by Time and Space
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
13. Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Myths and Realities
The Ideological Fault Lines
The Government’s Limits on the Definition of Marriage
The Government and Reproductive Rights
Welfare
Working Parents
Meeting the Needs of Disadvantaged Children
Principles to Guide Family Policy: An Immodest Proposal
Chapter Review
Related Web Sites
Glossary
Bibliography
Credits
Name Index
Subject Index
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Diversity in Families looks at families not as “building blocks of societies,” but rather as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, “How do families really work?” and “Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?” Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas.
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