Marriages, Families, and Intimate Relationships
A Practical Introduction
Published on 5. July 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-205-36674-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides timely, practical, and high-interest information about marriages, families, and intimate relationships, in an engaging format that is easy-to-use and learn from.
Reviews / Votes
Pedagogy
With my students in mind, I really appreciated clarity of key concepts and topics. This also makes it easy to re-read the chapter before the test. The learning lab also is a great help, and information on internet sites is up to date with current ways of doing research and learning.
Annette Schonder
Orange Coast College
The William's text is wonderfully reader friendly in that it is written in a style that draws the reader in and invites learning. The layout is easy on the eyes with many helpful headings announcing to the reader the more important concepts.
I highly value the practical advice offered to the reader; it makes learning useful.
Dr. Kenneth Smylie
Santa Fe Community College
"One of the best things about it is the way it's organized and broken into small sections. I like the "questions for thought" at the beginning of each section of each chapter. Also, the "preview" helps focus the reader's thoughts on the topic. This would be an excellent text for an introductory "marriage & family" or "intimate relationships" course. "
Joy Jacobs
Michigan State University
My favorite part of the chapter was the opening vignette. It immediately caught my attention and made me want to read on. It provides a real life scenario that provokes students to think and motivates them to dive into the chapter.
Naima Prince
Santa Fe Community College
Writing Style
To me, the writing style in the Williams, Sawyer & Wahlstrom text is personalized and the study of marriage and family is brought to life through relevance to everyday life. Indeed, reading the text is very much like having a conversation with an enthusiastic sociologist.
Naima Prince
Santa Fe Community College
Diversity
Because of the internationalization [at my school], I also greatly appreciate the information that was included on other cultures.
Naima Prince
Santa Fe Community College
Design & Layout
I personally enjoyed not having page after page of written word without any other visual stimulation. This makes reading interesting on another level.
Annette Schnoder
Orange Coast College
The layout design is very colorful. I particularly liked the Self-Assessment tool at the end of the chapter and the Take It to the Net section.
Lillian Dees
Texas State University
Chapter 14. Uncoupling: Separation and Divorce
The chapter on Uncoupling was very interesting and organized. The reader is assisted with color in the headers. Also, a concise, to the point preview is provided before a new topic is tackled, and at the end of the chapter a good summary is provided....I felt that the chapter did not only teach the topic, but gave students information that will assist them in making better personal decisions regarding family and marriage. I thought it was a nice touch to include a self-assessment on marital adjustment. Lastly, it was pleasant and concise reading.
Annette Schonder
Orange Coast College
I read chapter 14 on uncoupling and found it extremely helpful in exploring the many reasons for the high divorce rate in the United States today. It offered reasons that make sense. The insights and practical advice were useful and clear.
Dr. Kenneth Smylie
Santa Fe Community College
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1247 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-36674-3 (9780205366743)
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Brian K. Williams | Stacey C. Sawyer | Carl M. Wahlstrom
Marriages, Families, and Intimate Relationships
A Practical Introduction
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Content
1. SEEKING: Finding Happiness in Relationships in a Complex World.
1.1 Seeking Happiness Through Love & Intimacy.
1.2 Intimacy, Marriage, & Family.
1.3 The Challenges to Relationships & Families Today.
Self-Assessment: The RELATionship Evaluation Questionnaire .
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
2. UNDERSTANDING: Learning about Intimate Behavior.
2.1 A Short History of Marriage.
2.2 Learning How to Think: Keys to Being Open-Minded.
2.3 How Do You Know What's True? Learning to Evaluate Research Results.
2.4 Theoretical Perspectives on the Family.
Self-Assessment: Gaining Self-Knowledge from the Harvard Project Implicit Website.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
3. GENDER: The Meanings of Masculinity & Femininity.
3.1 Understanding Gender & Gender Roles.
3.2 Why Did Do Gender Roles Develop Differently Differ? Some Theories.
3.3 Gender Socialization: Who Teaches Us How to Act Male or Female?
3.4 Gender Roles in Transition: Multiple Masculinities & Femininities.
Self-Assessment: What's Your Gender Communications Quotient?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
4. LOVE: The Many Faces.
4.1 How Do Different People Experience Love Can We Define Love?
4.2 The Origins of Love: Some Theories.
4.3 The Dark Face of Love: Jealousy, Unrequited Love, & Attempts to Control.
4.4 How Can You If It's Whether It's Meaningful Love?
Self-Assessment: How Capable Are You of Being Intimate?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
5. INVOLVEMENT: Dating, Pairing, Courtship, & Cohabitation.
5.1 The Dating Game.
5.2 Pairing Up: Finding & Choosing a Partner.
5.3 Cohabitation: Living Together as an Unmarried Couple.
5.4 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.
Self-Assessment: How Compatibles Are You& Your Prospective Partner?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
6. SEXUALITY: Interpersonal Sexuality, Sexual Values, & Behavior.
6.1 Sexual Values, Learning, & Scripts.
6.2 The Varieties of Sexual Experience.
6.3 AIDS, Other Sexual Diseases, & Safer Sex.
Self-Assessment: Test Your Knowledge of Sexuality.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
7. MARRIAGE: The Ultimate Commitment?
7.1 Why Do People Marry?
7.2 Changes in the Family Life Cycle: Scenes from a Marriage.
7.3 Different Kinds of Marriage Relationships.
7.4 What Makes for a Successful Marriage?
Self-Assessment: Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
8. VARIATIONS: Nonmarital Families and & Households.
8.1 Different Family & Household Relationships.
8.2 The Single Way of Life.
8.3 The Gay & Lesbian Way of Life.
8.4 Communal Living, Group Marriages, & Open Marriages.
Self-assessment: Homophobia Scale.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
9. COMMUNICATION: Realizing Effective Intimacy.
9.1 Power & Intimacy.
9.2 Conflict & Growth.
9.3 The Nature of Communication.
Self-Assessment: Accepting Your Partner.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
10. REPRODUCTION: Decisions about Having or Not Having Children.
10.1 Having or Not Having Children: Choice or Fate?
10.2 Contraception: Practical Methods of Birth Control.
10.3 Abortion & Abandonment.
10.4 Infertility, Reproductive Technology, & Adoption.
Self-Assessment: How Would You Deal with an Unexpected Pregnancy?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
11. PARENTING: Successfully Raising Children.
11.1 Parenthood: The Varieties of Experience.
11.2 Becoming a Parent.
11.3 Parenting Approaches.
12. MONEY WORK: Economics, Work Jobs, & Balancing Family Demands.
12.1 Work, Wealth, & Well-Being.
12.2 Changing Family Work Patterns of Workin g .
12.3 Balancing Work & Family Demands: Some Practical Strategies.
Customized Work Arrangements.
Self-Assessment: How Well Do You Balance Work & Life?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take It to the Net.
13. CRISES: Managing Stresses, Disasters, Violence, & Abuse.
13.1 Stresses, Hassles, & Crises: Seeking Hardiness.
13.2 Crises & Disasters.
13.3 Violence & Abuse between Couples : The Dark Side of Intimate Relationships.
13.4 Coping Strategies: Successful Ways of Handling Stresses & Crises.
Self-Assessment: Major Like Events & Street.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take it to the Net.
14. UNCOUPLING: Separation & Divorce.
14.1 Separation, Divorce, & Trends.
14.2 Why People Divorce.
14.3 The Process of Divorce.
14.4 The Effects of Divorce.
Self-Assessment: How's Your Marital Adjustment?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take it to the Net.
15. REMARRIAGE: Reinvented, Renewed, & Blended Families.
15.1 Moving t T oward Remarriage.
15.2 Remarried & Blended Families.
15.3 Inside the Blended Family.
15.4 Strengthening Stepfamilies.
Self-Assessment: Rate Your Family's Strengths.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take it to the Net.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Credits.
Index.
1.1 Seeking Happiness Through Love & Intimacy.
1.2 Intimacy, Marriage, & Family.
1.3 The Challenges to Relationships & Families Today.
Self-Assessment: The RELATionship Evaluation Questionnaire .
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
2. UNDERSTANDING: Learning about Intimate Behavior.
2.1 A Short History of Marriage.
2.2 Learning How to Think: Keys to Being Open-Minded.
2.3 How Do You Know What's True? Learning to Evaluate Research Results.
2.4 Theoretical Perspectives on the Family.
Self-Assessment: Gaining Self-Knowledge from the Harvard Project Implicit Website.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
3. GENDER: The Meanings of Masculinity & Femininity.
3.1 Understanding Gender & Gender Roles.
3.2 Why Did Do Gender Roles Develop Differently Differ? Some Theories.
3.3 Gender Socialization: Who Teaches Us How to Act Male or Female?
3.4 Gender Roles in Transition: Multiple Masculinities & Femininities.
Self-Assessment: What's Your Gender Communications Quotient?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
4. LOVE: The Many Faces.
4.1 How Do Different People Experience Love Can We Define Love?
4.2 The Origins of Love: Some Theories.
4.3 The Dark Face of Love: Jealousy, Unrequited Love, & Attempts to Control.
4.4 How Can You If It's Whether It's Meaningful Love?
Self-Assessment: How Capable Are You of Being Intimate?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
5. INVOLVEMENT: Dating, Pairing, Courtship, & Cohabitation.
5.1 The Dating Game.
5.2 Pairing Up: Finding & Choosing a Partner.
5.3 Cohabitation: Living Together as an Unmarried Couple.
5.4 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.
Self-Assessment: How Compatibles Are You& Your Prospective Partner?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
6. SEXUALITY: Interpersonal Sexuality, Sexual Values, & Behavior.
6.1 Sexual Values, Learning, & Scripts.
6.2 The Varieties of Sexual Experience.
6.3 AIDS, Other Sexual Diseases, & Safer Sex.
Self-Assessment: Test Your Knowledge of Sexuality.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
7. MARRIAGE: The Ultimate Commitment?
7.1 Why Do People Marry?
7.2 Changes in the Family Life Cycle: Scenes from a Marriage.
7.3 Different Kinds of Marriage Relationships.
7.4 What Makes for a Successful Marriage?
Self-Assessment: Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
8. VARIATIONS: Nonmarital Families and & Households.
8.1 Different Family & Household Relationships.
8.2 The Single Way of Life.
8.3 The Gay & Lesbian Way of Life.
8.4 Communal Living, Group Marriages, & Open Marriages.
Self-assessment: Homophobia Scale.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
9. COMMUNICATION: Realizing Effective Intimacy.
9.1 Power & Intimacy.
9.2 Conflict & Growth.
9.3 The Nature of Communication.
Self-Assessment: Accepting Your Partner.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
10. REPRODUCTION: Decisions about Having or Not Having Children.
10.1 Having or Not Having Children: Choice or Fate?
10.2 Contraception: Practical Methods of Birth Control.
10.3 Abortion & Abandonment.
10.4 Infertility, Reproductive Technology, & Adoption.
Self-Assessment: How Would You Deal with an Unexpected Pregnancy?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
11. PARENTING: Successfully Raising Children.
11.1 Parenthood: The Varieties of Experience.
11.2 Becoming a Parent.
11.3 Parenting Approaches.
12. MONEY WORK: Economics, Work Jobs, & Balancing Family Demands.
12.1 Work, Wealth, & Well-Being.
12.2 Changing Family Work Patterns of Workin g .
12.3 Balancing Work & Family Demands: Some Practical Strategies.
Customized Work Arrangements.
Self-Assessment: How Well Do You Balance Work & Life?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take It to the Net.
13. CRISES: Managing Stresses, Disasters, Violence, & Abuse.
13.1 Stresses, Hassles, & Crises: Seeking Hardiness.
13.2 Crises & Disasters.
13.3 Violence & Abuse between Couples : The Dark Side of Intimate Relationships.
13.4 Coping Strategies: Successful Ways of Handling Stresses & Crises.
Self-Assessment: Major Like Events & Street.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take it to the Net.
14. UNCOUPLING: Separation & Divorce.
14.1 Separation, Divorce, & Trends.
14.2 Why People Divorce.
14.3 The Process of Divorce.
14.4 The Effects of Divorce.
Self-Assessment: How's Your Marital Adjustment?
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take it to the Net.
15. REMARRIAGE: Reinvented, Renewed, & Blended Families.
15.1 Moving t T oward Remarriage.
15.2 Remarried & Blended Families.
15.3 Inside the Blended Family.
15.4 Strengthening Stepfamilies.
Self-Assessment: Rate Your Family's Strengths.
Key Terms Used in This Chapter.
Summary.
Take it to the Net.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Credits.
Index.