Families: A Sociological Perspective

Overview

Main description

Families: A Sociological Perspective is an exciting new text from David Newman that successfully connects to students’ personal lives while showing how sociologists understand and explain families. It is not only informative in terms of current sociological knowledge of families, but meaningful in terms of contemporary family debates and applicable to students’ own family experiences. "What Does it All Mean?", "Going Global", and "See for Yourself" sections appear throughout the text allowing students to think and actively "do" sociology like sociologists to explore theoretical concepts to better understand their own family lives as well as those of others.

Table of contents

BRIEF CONTENTSPART 1 FAMILIES AND SOCIETY1 Defining Families2 Declining and Enduring Families3 Measuring FamiliesPART II FAMILIES AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES4 Gendered Families5 Diverse Families/Similar Families6 Unequal FamiliesPART III FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS7 Love, Sexuality, and Relationship Formation8 Marriage and Cohabitation9 Work and FamilyPART IV FAMILIES OVER THE LIFE COURSE10 Entering Parenthood11Childhood and Adolescence12 Adulthood and Later LifePART V FAMILIES AND CHALLENGES13 Intimate Violence14 Divorce and Remarriage15 Change, Stability, and Future Families