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This best-selling reader on families and intimate relationships identifies the most current trends and places them in historical context. The reader balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites. Many selections support the authors¿ claim of a “triple revolution” transforming contemporary family life: the move to a postindustrial service and information economy; a life course revolution brought about by reduced mortality and fertility; and psychological changes rooted in rising educational levels. Anyone looking for a collection of classic and contemporary readings on the sociology of the family.
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The classic reader on family life that reflects current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with time-honored pieces.
With every edition, this best-selling reader has chronicled changes in the contemporary American family. The popularity of this text speaks to the authors' ability to find articles that are timely and germane to the subject on one hand, and accessible to the reader on the other. While the selections vary from one edition to the next, they all demonstrate in various ways how family life is bound up with the social, economic, and ideological circumstances of particular times and places. The authors provide a general introduction to the book, as well as to each of the four major parts
For Sociologists, Counselors and Therapists. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Family in Transition,Arlene S. Skolnick,Jerome H. Skolnick,Longman Publishing Group,0321034341,Family,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Family/Marriage,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Sociology - Marriage & Family
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