Screen LibraryPublic & private families : an introduction /
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McGraw Hill,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2008] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 572 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 520-552) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780073528083 0073528080 |
| Index Number: | HQ536 |
| CLC: | D771.281 |
| Call Number: | D771.281/C521/5th ed. |
| Contents: |
pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. Public and private families -- Individualism and families -- What is a family? -- How do family sociologists know what they know? -- Sociological theory and families -- A sociological viewpoint of families -- 2. The history of the family -- What do families do? -- The American family before 1776 -- The emergence of the "'modern" American family : 1776-1900 -- African American, Mexican American, and Asian immigrant families -- The rise of the private family : 1900-present -- The changing life course -- pt. 2. Gender, class, and race-ethnicity -- 3. Gender and families -- The berdache -- The gestational construction of gender -- The childhood construction of gender -- The continual construction of gender -- Gender and male domination -- The contributions of gender studies -- 4. Social class and families -- Families and the economy -- Defining social class -- Social class differences in family life -- Social class and the family -- 5. Race, ethnicity, and families -- Racial-ethnic groups -- African American families -- Hispanic families -- Asian American families -- Social capital and immigrant families -- American Indian families -- Racial and ethnic intermarriage -- Race, ethnicity, and kinship. pt. 3. Sexuality, partnership, and marriage -- 6. Sexualities -- Sexual identities -- Beyond the family? -- Marital and nonmarital sexuality -- Adolescent sexuality and pregnancy -- 7. Cohabitation and marriage -- Forming a union -- Marriage -- Cohabitation -- Social change and intimate unions -- 8. Work and families -- From single-earner to dual-earner marriages -- Care work and marital power -- Overload and spillover between paid work and family life -- pt. 4. Links across the generations -- 9. Children and parents -- What are parents supposed to do for children? -- What might prevent parents from doing what they are supposed to do? -- The well-being of American children -- 10. The elderly and their families -- The modernization of old age -- Giving and getting -- The quality of intergenerational ties -- Sources of tension -- The family national guard. pt. 5. Conflict, disruption, and reconstitution -- 11. Domestic violence -- Domestic violence in historical perspective -- Intimate partner violence -- Sexual aggression and violence in dating relationships -- Explanations -- Domestic violence and public policy -- 12. Divorce -- Three eras of divorce -- Factors associated with divorce -- The process of divorce -- Divorce and children -- 13. Remarriage and stepfamilies -- The incomplete institution -- The demography of remarriage and stepfamilies -- The new extended family -- Building stepfamilies -- The effects of remarriage on children -- Divorce and remarriage : some lessons -- pt. 6. Family and society -- 14. The family, the state, and social policy -- The development of the welfare state -- Family policy debates -- Practical compromises -- Current debates -- Family policy in the mid-2000s -- 15. Social change and families -- Two fundamental changes -- The do-it-yourself family? -- A summing up -- Glossary. |