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Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives: The Power of Race, Class, and Gender book cover

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Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives The Power of Race, Class, and Gender

By Natalia Sarkisian, Naomi Gerstel Copyright 2012
86 Pages
by Routledge

86 Pages
by Routledge

86 Pages
by Routledge
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Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family – with its exclusion of the extended family – is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class. This book is broken down into six chapters. Chapter one discusses how, when promoting "family values" and talking about "family as the... Read more
1. The Widespread Focus on Nuclear Families  2. The Realities of Family Life: Extended Families and Gender  3. Race and Family Organizations  4. The Power of Social Class: Structure, Culture, and Families as Strategies for Survival  5. Mariage and Families  6. Social Policies and Families

Biography

Natalia Sarkisian is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Her interests include family sociology, race, gender, and class, aging and the life course, and quantitative methods. Her research, published in Social Forces, American Sociological Review, the Journal of Marriage and Family, Contexts, and Family Relations, examines variation in kin and community ties by race/ethnicity, gender, age, and marital status, and explores the structural circumstances and cultural values that may account for this variation.

Naomi Gerstel is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her most recent articles have examined the ways class and gender shape work hours, effects of class, race, marriage, and women’s employment on families and caregiving, labor union policies, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. Her co-authored and co-edited books include Commuter Marriage, Families at Work, Families and Work, and Public Sociology.

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