3rd Edition
Families in Context Sociological Perspectives
580 Pages
by
Routledge
580 Pages
by
Routledge
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The most thoroughly updated edition yet, this book offers students perspectives of changes in marriage and family over time, including the impact of the Great Recession and of new media technologies. A hallmark of Families in Context remains the well-researched, data-driven quality of the text. Beyond presenting thoroughly updated statistics and literature, each chapter examines new trends and... Read more
Chapter 1: Defining Family Variation Chapter 2: Studying the Family Chapter 3: Families in Preindustrial Context Chapter 4: Industrialization and Families Chapter 5: Gender, Work, and Postindustrial Families Chapter 6: Social Class and Families Chapter 7: Race/Ethnicity and Families Chapter 8: Forming Intimate Relationships Chapter 9: Mate Selection Chapter 10: Varieties of Sexual Scripts Chapter 11: Population and Family Planning Chapter 12: Negotiating Marriages Chapter 13: Parents and Children Chapter 14: Crisis and Violence in Families Chapter 15: Divorce and Rescripted Families Chapter 16: Family Perspectives, Policy, and the Future
Biography
Gene H. Starbuck, Karen Saucier Lundy
Praise for previous editions:
"The author has crafted a clear, concise, and meaningfully themed book that provides accurate and up-to-date scholarly family research and also engages the reader."
—Henry Borne, Holy Cross College
"One of the best, if not the very best, sociology of the family books available."
—Norval Glenn, The University of Texas at Austin
"Families in Context does a masterful job of locating the family within large-scale socioeconomic developments. ...The focus is substantively unique."
—Jon P. Bloch, Southern Connecticut State University
"This is the best presentation of the process of industrialization and its effects on the family I have seen in an undergraduate text."
—Theodore N. Greenstein, North Carolina State University
