Family in Transition
United States Edition
16th Edition
Published on 18. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-205-74730-6 (ISBN)
Description
Appropriate for Marriage and Family and Sociology of Family courses.
Blending historical context with the latest scholarship, this reader examines the most current trends in the families and intimate relationships field of study.
Family in Transition 16e identifies the most current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites. The authors, who are leading scholars, build each new edition from classic literature in the field as well as the continuing stream of new family scholarship.
Blending historical context with the latest scholarship, this reader examines the most current trends in the families and intimate relationships field of study.
Family in Transition 16e identifies the most current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites. The authors, who are leading scholars, build each new edition from classic literature in the field as well as the continuing stream of new family scholarship.
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Edition
16th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-74730-6 (9780205747306)
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Persons
Arlene Skolnick, Ph.D., is a Visiting Scholar at the sociology department at New York University, and a consultant to the Families and Work Institute. For many years she was a member of the research staff at the Institute of Human Development, at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked on the Berkeley Longitudinal Studies, examining the emotional lives and marriages of study members as they evolved from childhood to middle age. More recently, Professor Skolnick has been studying the sources and impact of job stress on the families of police officers. She has also taken part in several interdisciplinary projects dealing with social science, law and family policy. In recent years, she helped to organize a monthly Family Policy Seminar at Berkeley, and co-edited the book that grew out of the seminar: All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century. Professor Skolnick has published a number of other books and articles on marriage and the family, includingFamily in Transition and Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty. She is currently at work on a book entitled The Unfinished Family: The Future of Love and Work.
Jerome Skolnick, a sociologist, currently teaches at the New York University School of Law where he is Co-Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He is also Claire Clements Dean's Professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Chair of the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He has written many books and articles and has received numerous grants, honors and awards in recognition of his research and scholarship. These include the August Vollmer award of the American Society of Criminology; awards for distinguished scholarship from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Western Society of Criminology; the Mills award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (for Justice Without Trial); election to the honorary Sociological Research Association; and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He was Director of the Task Force on Violent Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Washington, D.C. 1968-1969 and served as President of the American Society of Criminology from November 1993 through November 1994. In 1997, he completed a three year term as Chair of the National Academy of Science/ National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice. In 1996 he was honored by John Jay College of Criminal Justice as their Criminal Justice Educator of the Year.
Jerome Skolnick, a sociologist, currently teaches at the New York University School of Law where he is Co-Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He is also Claire Clements Dean's Professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Chair of the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He has written many books and articles and has received numerous grants, honors and awards in recognition of his research and scholarship. These include the August Vollmer award of the American Society of Criminology; awards for distinguished scholarship from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Western Society of Criminology; the Mills award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (for Justice Without Trial); election to the honorary Sociological Research Association; and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He was Director of the Task Force on Violent Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Washington, D.C. 1968-1969 and served as President of the American Society of Criminology from November 1993 through November 1994. In 1997, he completed a three year term as Chair of the National Academy of Science/ National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice. In 1996 he was honored by John Jay College of Criminal Justice as their Criminal Justice Educator of the Year.
Content
IN THIS SECTION:
1. BRIEF
2. COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I The Changing Family
1. Families Past and Present
2. Public Debates and Private Lives
Part II Sex and Gender
3. Changing Gender Roles
4. Sexualtiy and Society
5. Courtship and Marriage
6. Divorce and Remarriage
Part III Parents and Children
7. Parenthood
8. Childhood and Youth
Part IV Families in Society
9. Work and Family Life
10. Family and the Economy
11. Dimensions of Diversity
12. Trouble in the Family
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
* New to this Edition
Part I The Changing Family
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 Eriikka Oinonin / Family in Finland and Spain
2. Public Debates and Private Lives
Reading 4 Sharon Hays / The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
Reading 5 Janet Z. Giele / Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views
Part II Sex and Gender
3. Changing Gender Roles
Reading 6 Robert M. Jackson / Destined for Equality
* Reading 7 Gail Collins / The Ice Cracks
* Reading 8 Kathleen Gerson / Falling Back on Plan B: The Children of the Gender Revolution Face Uncharted Territory
4. Sexualtiy and Society
Reading 9 Beth Bailey / Sexual Revolution(s)
* Reading 10 Kathleen A. Bogle / Hooking Up and Dating: A Comparison
* Reading 11 Margaret Talbot / Red Sex, Blue Sex
5. Courtship and Marriage
Reading 12 Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi / Cohabitation
* Reading 13 Maria Kefalas, Frank Furstenberg, and Laura Napolitano / Marriage is More than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage among Young Adults in the United States
Reading 14 Andrew J. Cherlin / American Marriage in the Early Twenty-First Century
Reading 15 Arlene Skolnick / Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail
6. Divorce and Remarriage
Reading 16 Lawrence M. Friedman / Divorce: The "Silent Revolution"
* Reading 17 Virginia E. Rutter / Divorce in Research vs. Divorce in Media
Reading 18 Mary Ann Mason / The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities
Part III Parents and Children
7. Parenthood
Reading 19 Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan / New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers
* Reading 20 William Marsiglio / Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids
8. Childhood and Youth
Reading 21 Steven Mintz / Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct
Reading 22 Annette Lareau / Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
* Reading 23 Frank Furstenberg / Diverging Development: The Not-so-Invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States
* Reading 24 Katherine S. Newman / Ties That Bind: Cultural Interpretations of Delayed Adulthood in Western Europe and Japan
Part IV Families in Society
9. Work and Family Life
Reading 25 Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung / The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
Reading 26 Pamela Stone / The Rhetoric and Reality of "Opting Out"
10. Family and the Economy
Reading 27 Lillian Rubin / Families on the Fault Line
Reading 28 Harriet B. Presser / The Economy That Never Sleeps
* Reading 29 Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen / The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in American
Reading 30 Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi / Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
11. Dimensions of Diversity
Reading 31 Ronald L. Taylor / Diversity within African American Families
Reading 32 Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells / Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science
* Reading 33 Min Zhou / Conflict, Coping, and Reconciliation in Chinese Immigrant Families
Reading 34 Rona J. Karasik and Raeann R. Hamon / Cultural Diversity and Aging Families
Reading 35 Judith Stacy / Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us
12. Trouble in the Family
Reading 36 Jeremy Travis / Prisoners' Families and Children
Reading 37 Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas / Unmarried with Children
1. BRIEF
2. COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I The Changing Family
1. Families Past and Present
2. Public Debates and Private Lives
Part II Sex and Gender
3. Changing Gender Roles
4. Sexualtiy and Society
5. Courtship and Marriage
6. Divorce and Remarriage
Part III Parents and Children
7. Parenthood
8. Childhood and Youth
Part IV Families in Society
9. Work and Family Life
10. Family and the Economy
11. Dimensions of Diversity
12. Trouble in the Family
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
* New to this Edition
Part I The Changing Family
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 Eriikka Oinonin / Family in Finland and Spain
2. Public Debates and Private Lives
Reading 4 Sharon Hays / The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
Reading 5 Janet Z. Giele / Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views
Part II Sex and Gender
3. Changing Gender Roles
Reading 6 Robert M. Jackson / Destined for Equality
* Reading 7 Gail Collins / The Ice Cracks
* Reading 8 Kathleen Gerson / Falling Back on Plan B: The Children of the Gender Revolution Face Uncharted Territory
4. Sexualtiy and Society
Reading 9 Beth Bailey / Sexual Revolution(s)
* Reading 10 Kathleen A. Bogle / Hooking Up and Dating: A Comparison
* Reading 11 Margaret Talbot / Red Sex, Blue Sex
5. Courtship and Marriage
Reading 12 Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi / Cohabitation
* Reading 13 Maria Kefalas, Frank Furstenberg, and Laura Napolitano / Marriage is More than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage among Young Adults in the United States
Reading 14 Andrew J. Cherlin / American Marriage in the Early Twenty-First Century
Reading 15 Arlene Skolnick / Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail
6. Divorce and Remarriage
Reading 16 Lawrence M. Friedman / Divorce: The "Silent Revolution"
* Reading 17 Virginia E. Rutter / Divorce in Research vs. Divorce in Media
Reading 18 Mary Ann Mason / The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities
Part III Parents and Children
7. Parenthood
Reading 19 Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan / New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers
* Reading 20 William Marsiglio / Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids
8. Childhood and Youth
Reading 21 Steven Mintz / Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct
Reading 22 Annette Lareau / Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
* Reading 23 Frank Furstenberg / Diverging Development: The Not-so-Invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States
* Reading 24 Katherine S. Newman / Ties That Bind: Cultural Interpretations of Delayed Adulthood in Western Europe and Japan
Part IV Families in Society
9. Work and Family Life
Reading 25 Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung / The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
Reading 26 Pamela Stone / The Rhetoric and Reality of "Opting Out"
10. Family and the Economy
Reading 27 Lillian Rubin / Families on the Fault Line
Reading 28 Harriet B. Presser / The Economy That Never Sleeps
* Reading 29 Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen / The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in American
Reading 30 Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi / Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
11. Dimensions of Diversity
Reading 31 Ronald L. Taylor / Diversity within African American Families
Reading 32 Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells / Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science
* Reading 33 Min Zhou / Conflict, Coping, and Reconciliation in Chinese Immigrant Families
Reading 34 Rona J. Karasik and Raeann R. Hamon / Cultural Diversity and Aging Families
Reading 35 Judith Stacy / Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us
12. Trouble in the Family
Reading 36 Jeremy Travis / Prisoners' Families and Children
Reading 37 Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas / Unmarried with Children