Handbook of Contemporary Families

Handbook of Contemporary Families
Author: Marilyn Coleman
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780761927136

The Handbook of Contemporary Families explores how families have changed in the last 30 years and speculates about future trends. Editors Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, along with a multidisciplinary group of contributors, critique the approaches used to study relationships and families while suggesting modern approaches for the new millennium. The Handbook looks at how changes within the contemporary family have been reflected in family law, family education, and family therapy. The Handbook of Contemporary Families is an excellent resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, educators, and practitioners who study and work with families in several disciplines, including Family Science, Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Social Work.

Handbook of Marriage and the Family

Handbook of Marriage and the Family
Author: Marvin B. Sussman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 874
Release: 1999-01-31
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780306457548

A host of scholars in sociology, communications, human development, economics, history, and psychology join Sussman (Union Institute, Cincinnati, OH), Steinmetz (Indiana U.) and Peterson (Arizona State U.) to complete this volume on marriage and the family. Articles reflect a broad range of interests, discussing such topics as demography, ethnic variation in the family, divorce, adolescence in contemporary families, work, religion, law, communication, abuse and violence, and sexuality. The book also includes a variety of articles on theories and methods of family research and marital and family therapy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Shifting the Center

Shifting the Center
Author: Susan J. Ferguson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 720
Release: 1998
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Presents 48 articles on the family brought together to meet four pedagogical roles: to deconstruct the notion of a universal family over time and across culture; to reflect cutting-edge scholarship by well-known family scholars; to integrate race-ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexuality in the

Family Diversity

Family Diversity
Author: Pauline Irit Erera
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2001-09-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1452236852

This nonjudgmental, inclusive, and far-reaching text focuses on the diverse patterns of family structure prevalent in our society today. Family Diversity presents empirical research on the internal dynamics, social environments, support factors, prevalence of discrimination, and common stereotypes that account for the issues surrounding current family relations. By examining the history and nature of foster and adoptive, single-parent, lesbian/gay, step- and grandparent family units, Pauline Irit Erera is able to challenge both the idealized family prototype and the hegemony of the traditional structure.

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe
Author: Blahoslav Kraus
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030482995

This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusses the similarities and differences in family lifestyles in this region. The empirical data comes from the authors‘ original research derived from adult representatives of families with children in the Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. The authors compare and interpret information on the social and economic situation of families, expressed satisfaction in their lifestyles, and leisure and media in the everyday life of families. Overall, the authors bring into the discussion both current knowledge and original empirical data on families and contribute to literature on the sociology of the family, particularly in Europe. This book is useful to researchers and students interested in family issues, along with professionals in the field of family care and social policy.

Modern Families

Modern Families
Author: Susan Golombok
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 110705558X

This book provides an expert view of research on parenting and child development in new family forms.

Parenting and Children's Internalization of Values

Parenting and Children's Internalization of Values
Author: Joan E. Grusec
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : J. Wiley
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1997-10-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

In Parenting and Children's Internalization of Values, leading advocates of these emerging points of view explain the approach to socialization taken in their work, and review recent developments in theory and research that have influenced their conclusions.

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe
Author: Anna-Maija Castrén
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030733068

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.