Family in Transition

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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Part One: The Changing Family



Chapter 1: Families Past and Present



Reading 1: William J. Goode, "The Theoretical Importance of the Family"
Reading 2: Anthony Giddens, "The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life"
Reading 3: Arlene Skolnick, "The Life Course Revolution"
*Reading 4: Claude S.Fischer and Michael Hout, "The Family in Trouble?"

Chapter 2: Public Debates and Private Live



Reading 5: Sharon Hays, "The Mommy Wars"
Reading 6: Janet Z. Giele, "Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views"



Part Two: Sex and Gender



Chapter 3: Changing Gender Roles



Reading 7: Robert M. Jackson, "Destined for Equality"
*Reading 8: Kathleen Gerson, "What do Women and Men Want? "
*Reading 9: Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout, "The Conservative Christian Family and the Feminist Revolution"

Chapter 4: Sexuality and Society



Reading 10: Beth Bailey, "Sexual Revolutions"
Reading 11: Paula England, "The Decline of Dating and the Rise of the Hook Up"





Chapter 5: Courtship and Marriage



Reading 12: Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi, "Cohabitation"
*Reading 13: Michael J. Rosenfeld, " Alternative Unions and The Independent Life Stage."
*Reading 14: Andrew Cherlin, "American marriage in the early 21st century"
Reading 15: Arlene Skolnick, "Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail"

Chapter 6: Divorce and Remarriage



*Reading 16: Laurence M. Friedman, "Divorce: The Silent Revolution"
Reading 17: Joan B. Kelly and Robert E. Emery, "Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives"
Reading 18: Mary Ann Mason, "The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities"



Part Three: Parents and Children



Chapter 7: Parenthood



Reading 19: Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, "New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers"
Reading 20: Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel, "Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States"
Reading 21: Nicholas Townsend, "The Four Facets of Fatherhood

Chapter 8: Childhood and Youth



Reading 22: Steven Mintz, "Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct"
*Reading 23: Annette Lareau, "Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life"
Reading 24: Vern L. Bengston, Timothy J. Biblarz, and Robert E.L. Roberts, "How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations"
*Reading 25: Jeffrey J. Arnett, "A Longer Road to Adulthood"



Part Four: Families in Society



Chapter 9: Work and Family Life



Reading 26: Arlie Hochschild, with Anne Machung, "The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
Reading 27: Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs, "The Work-Home Crunch"
*Reading 28: Pamela Stone, "The Rhetoric and Reality of Opting Out"



Chapter 10: Family and the Economy



Reading 29: Lillian B. Rubin, "Families on the Fault Line"
Reading 30: Harriet B. Presser, "The Economy That Never Sleeps"
Reading 31: Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, "Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke"

Chapter 10: Dimensions of Diversity



Reading 32: Ronald L. Taylor, "Diversity within African American Families"
Reading 33: Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells, "Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science"
*Reading 34: Rona J. Karasik and Raeann R. Hamon, "Cultural Diversity and Aging Families"
Reading 35:Judith Stacey, "Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us"

Chapter 11: Trouble in the Family



Reading 36: Jeremy Travis, "Prisoners' Families and Children,"
Reading 37: Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, "Unmarried with Children"
*Reading 38: Michael P. Johnson, "Violence and Abuse in Personal Relationships"