Taking an historical, cross-cultural, and global approach, this book focuses on the link between social structure and the everyday lives of people's diverse experiences of marriages, families, and intimate relationships. It shows how contemporary families go well beyond the traditional, heterosexual, two-parent, white, middle class family and heterosexual legally-sanctioned marriage; challenges the assumption that one culture's way of doing things is the “natural” or “right” way; shows how marriage and family life have changed historically over time and from place to place; and how political and economic globalization impacts families worldwide. Features extensive boxed material accompanied by questions for personal reflection. Marriages and Families Over Time. Ways of Studying and Explaining Marriages and Families. Understanding Gender: Its Influence In Intimate Relationships. The Many Faces of Love. Dating, Coupling, and Mate Selection. Sexuality and Intimate Relationships. Nonmarital Lifestyles. The Marriage Experience. Reproduction and Parenting. Evolving Work and Family Structures. Violence and Abuse. The Process of Uncoupling: Divorce in the United States. Remarriage and Remarried Families. Families in Later Life. Marriages and Families in the Twenty-first Century: U.S. and World Trends. For anyone interested in marriage and family dynamics, including individuals, counselors, nurses, social workers, home economists, etc.

Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change (4th Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Schwartz, Mary Ann

Scott, BarBara Marliene

Schwartz, Mary Ann A.

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Taking an historical, cross-cultural, and global approach, this book focuses on the link between social structure and the everyday lives of people's diverse experiences of marriages, families, and intimate relationships. It shows how contemporary families go well beyond the traditional, heterosexual, two-parent, white, middle class family and heterosexual legally-sanctioned marriage; challenges the assumption that one culture's way of doing things is the “natural” or “right” way; shows how marriage and family life have changed historically over time and from place to place; and how political and economic globalization impacts families worldwide. Features extensive boxed material accompanied by questions for personal reflection. Marriages and Families Over Time. Ways of Studying and Explaining Marriages and Families. Understanding Gender: Its Influence In Intimate Relationships. The Many Faces of Love. Dating, Coupling, and Mate Selection. Sexuality and Intimate Relationships. Nonmarital Lifestyles. The Marriage Experience. Reproduction and Parenting. Evolving Work and Family Structures. Violence and Abuse. The Process of Uncoupling: Divorce in the United States. Remarriage and Remarried Families. Families in Later Life. Marriages and Families in the Twenty-first Century: U.S. and World Trends. For anyone interested in marriage and family dynamics, including individuals, counselors, nurses, social workers, home economists, etc.

Marriages And Families: Diversity And Change

Pearson College Div

Marriage & Families: Diversity and Change : Study Guide

Self-Help

Relationships

Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change

Schwartz, Mary Ann A., Scott, BarBara Marliene

Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change, Census Update

Sociology

Examines personal belief systems and societal views Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change empowers and challenges students to examine their personal belief systems and societal views. Within an engaging narrative and a sociological approach, the text addresses the many issues facing marriages and families today, and provides many opportunities for the student to consider and apply the material they are learning in the course to their own lives. The book guides students to make informed choices and decisions about their own marriage, family and intimate relationships. It is designed for courses on Marriage and Families or Introduction to Families. The Census Update program incorporates 2010 Census data into a course–simply and easily. The components of the Census Update Program include an updated census edition with all charts and graphs–to reflect the results of the 2010 Census. In addition, A Short Introduction to the U.S. Census is available and an updated MyFamilyLab. Teaching &amp; Learning Experience <ul>
<li> Personalize Learning – MyFamilyLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. </li> <li> Improve Critical Thinking – Feature questions encourage students to reflect on chapter studies and relate them to personal experience. </li> <li> Engage Students – Examines challenges in family dynamics and gives students the tools to apply chapter content to their own relationships. </li> <li> Explore Theory – Written from a sociological perspective. </li> <li> Support Instructors – MyFamilyLab enables instructors to assess student progress and adapt course material to meet the specific needs of the class. </li> </ul>
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Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World is a unique introduction to sociology by two experienced educators and social activists, featuring integrated coverage of social stratification and inequality throughout; the theory and application of social change, and the inclusion of feminism as one of the major sociological paradigms. Inclusive of issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and age, themes that are woven into every chapter of the book. This approach focuses on the link between social structure and people's own personal experiences. It is also inclusive of the research and scholarship of a wide variety of scholars which, until now, had limited exposure in most introductory books. Throughout the book, the authors explain sociology through the process of individual (agency), collective (social movements), structural, historical, and global change. The book emphasizes that change is a two-way process meaning individuals can initiate and influence the worlds they live in, in addition to being influenced by them. It is also theoretical in that it very consciously uses a feminist approach, but does not exclude other approaches. Dominant theoretical sociological and feminist paradigms are introduced in the beginning chapters of the book and these theories are carried throughout to help readers understand different issues from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. For anyone interested in social structure, with regard to influencing the worlds we live in, as well as being influenced by those worlds.

Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World

Allyn&Bacon

Sociology: Study Guide: Making Sense of the Social World

This brief introduction to sociology featuresintegrated coverage of social stratification and inequality; the application of social change theory and examination of individuals and organizations who work for social change; and the inclusion of feminism as one of the major sociological paradigms.

Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World (2nd Edition)

Pearson

Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change empowers and challenges students to examine their personal belief systems and societal views to make informed choices and decisions about their own marriage, family and intimate relationships. Within an engaging narrative and a sociological approach, the text addresses the many issues facing marriages and families today, and provides many opportunities for the student to consider and apply the material they are learning in the course to their own lives.

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Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change (4th Edition)

Marriages And Families: Diversity And Change

Marriage & Families: Diversity and Change : Study Guide

Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change

Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change, Census Update

Marriages and Families + Myfamilylab With Pearson Etext

Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World

Sociology: Study Guide: Making Sense of the Social World

Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World (2nd Edition)

Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change