{"product_id":"the-wiley-blackwell-companion-to-the-sociology-of-families-isbn-9781119406037","title":"The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExtensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes of Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Global Perspectives on Families\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGöran Therborn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Changing European Families 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrude Lappegård\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Family Change in East Asia 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrma Arriagada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Diversity, Inequality, and Immigration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Same-Sex Families 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Family Poverty 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRys Farthing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Transnational Families 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren D. Pyke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Family Forms and Family Influences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric D. Widmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Health and Families 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Religion and Families 277\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Family Processes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuho Härkönen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Life Course Perspectives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthijs Kalmijn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Children’s Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacqueline Scott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin M. Roy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Families in Context\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Public Policy and Families 467\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Family Policy and Wives’ Economic Independence 485\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHadas Mandel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin Richards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 560\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e JUDITH TREAS\u003c\/b\u003e is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous book, edited with Sonja Drobnič, is \u003ci\u003eDividing the Domestic: Men, Women and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e JACQUELINE SCOTT\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Empirical Sociology in the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. Her recent edited books include \u003ci\u003eGendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e (with Shirley Dex and Anke Plagnol, 2012); \u003ci\u003eGender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints\u003c\/i\u003e (with Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette, 2010); and \u003ci\u003eWomen and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges\u003c\/i\u003e (with Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi, 2009).    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e MARTIN RICHARDS\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Family Research, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eReproductive Donation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e (edited with Guido Pennings and John B. Appleby, 2012), and \u003ci\u003eWe Are Family? Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins and Identities\u003c\/i\u003e (edited with Tabitha Freeman, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, and Susanna Graham, 2014).      \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The editors incorporate some of the biggest names in family sociology alongside those of newer scholars. Notably, the book focuses on trends and changes in families globally, allowing the authors to explore the ways in which forces such as globalization and the global recession impact all aspects of family life, from marriage to fertility. . . Appropriate for advanced family scholars while also accessible for students. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended.\"   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Choice \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Unprecedented social changes are taking place that pose new challenges for families. \u003ci\u003eThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to The Sociology of Families\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a collection of original essays that investigate partnering, parenting, and families against the backdrop of rapid social change brought about by globalization, contested cultural values, severe economic shocks, new technologies, and widespread rethinking of welfare state protection for families today.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written by a team of leading researchers from five continents, these newly commissioned essays maintain a focus on family inequality and diversity over the life course while offering fresh insights into new family forms and intimate relationships. Extensively reworked since its publication over a decade ago, the volume spans a broad range of topics including changes to partnering and parenting in North American, European, Asian, and Latin American families; intergenerational relationships; immigrant and transnational families; cohabitation and divorce; same-sex families; and much more. Authoritative and timely, \u003ci\u003eThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to The Sociology of Families\u003c\/i\u003e offers illuminating insights into the complex processes that are transforming family life in our globalized world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990368501989,"sku":"NP9781119406037","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119406037.jpg?v=1761787543","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-wiley-blackwell-companion-to-the-sociology-of-families-isbn-9781119406037","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}