Families as They Really Are
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Families as They Really Are goes to the heart of the family values debate by reframing the question about families from “Are they breaking down?” to “Where are they going, how, and why?”
Essays in the book are not reprints; you won’t find them anywhere else. Each article is a new contribution to the research and theory about families, drawn from an interdisciplinary community of experts.
The four parts of Families as They Really Are focus on how we got to where we are today, what’s happening in relationships, youth in the 21st century, and the state of the gender revolution.
Barbara J. Risman is professor and head of the department of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was previously Alumni Distinguished Research Professor, as well as the Founding Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at North Carolina State University. Risman is the author of Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition and over two dozen journal articles. She is also the president of the board of The Council on Contemporary Families, a national organization whose mission is to bring new research findings and clinical expertise to public attention. In 2005, Risman was honored with the Katherine Jocher Belle Boone Beard Award from the Southern Sociological Society for lifetime contributions to the study of gender. In 2013, she was elected vice president of the American Sociological Association. She is currently testing theories about whether hormonal exposure in utero influences gendered selves in adulthood. Risman strongly believes that sociologists have a responsibility both to do good research and to teach about it in the classroom and to the public at large.
Introduction: Springing Forward from the Past
Barbara J. Risman, Springing Forward from the Past
Andrew J. Cherlin, One Thousand and Forty-Nine Reasons Why It's
Hard to Know When a Fact is a Fact
Philip A. Cowan, When Is a Relationship between Facts a Causal
One?
Linda Burton, Uncovering Hidden Facts That Matter in Interpreting
Individuals' Behaviors: An Ethnographic Lens
In the News: Not Much Sense in Those Census Stories (Washington
Post)
Part I: How We Got Here
Stephanie Coontz, The Evolution of American Families
Steven Mintz, American Childhood as a Social and Cultural
Construct
In the News: A "Golden Age" of Childhood? (Christian Science
Monitor)
In the News: How We Took the Child Out of Childhood (New York
Times)
Donna L. Franklin, African Americans and the Birth of the Modern
Marriage
Karen Struening, Families "In Law" and Families "In Practice": Does
the Law Recognize Families as They Really Are?
M. V. Lee Badgett, Briefing Paper: Will Providing Marriage Rights
to Same-Sex Couples Undermine Heterosexual Marriage? Evidence from
Scandinavia
In the News: Experts Question European Studies Cited in FMA Debate
(Washington Blade)
Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Loren Henderson, Interracial Families in
Post-Civil Rights America
Michael Rosenfeld, Briefing Paper: The Steady Rise of
Nontraditional Romantic Unions: The Case of Interracial and
Intercultural Marriage
In the News: Interracial Marriage: A Cultural Taboo Fades (Chicago
Tribune)
Part II: Making Families and Intimate Relationships in the 21st
Century
Pepper Schwartz, Why Is Everyone Afraid of Sex?
Pamela J. Smock and Wendy, Manning New Couples, New Families: The
Cohabitation Revolution in the United States
Joshua Coleman, Parenting Adult Children in the 21st Century
Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, Briefing Paper: Marriage
Reduces Social Ties
In the News: The Greedy Marriage: Two Scholars Argue That Good
Spouses Can Make Bad Neighbors (Boston Globe)
Virginia E. Rutter, The Case for Divorce
In the News: How to Stay Married (Times of London)
Allen Li, Briefing Paper: The Impact of Divorce on Children's
Behavior Problems
In the News: Divorce May Not Cause Kids' Bad Behavior (USA
Today)
In the News: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Divorce (Washington
Times)
Patrick Heuveline, Briefing Paper: How Do They Do That? Estimating
the Proportion of Marriages That End in Divorce
Stephanie Coontz and Nancy Folbre, Briefing Paper: Marriage,
Poverty, and Public Policy
In the News: A Poor Excuse for Marriage (Washington Post)
Robert-Jay Green, From Outlaws to In-Laws: Gay and Lesbian Couples
in Contemporary Society
Mignon R. Moore, Independent Women: Equality in African American
Lesbian Relationships
Fact Sheet: Myths and Realities about Same-Sex Families
Etiony Aldarondo and Edward Ameen, The Immigration Kaleidoscope:
Knowing the Immigrant Family Next Door
In the News: The Picture-Perfect American Family? These Days, It
Doesn't Exist (Washington Post)
Part III: Unequal Beginnings: Social Class and America's
Children
Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn P. Cowan, Beyond Family Structure:
Family Process Studies Help to Reframe Debates about What's Good
for Children
Valerie Adrian, Opinion Piece: A Mother's Day Gift That Makes a
Real Difference
Fact Sheet: Military Childcare: A Government Success Story
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Diverging Development: The
Not-So-Invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States
Annette Lareau, Briefing Paper: Unequal Childhoods: Inequalities in
the Rhythms of Daily Life
In the News: Both Sides of Inequality (New York Times)
Kevin Roy and Natasha Cabrera, Not Just Provide and Reside: Engaged
Fathers in Low-Income Families
Paula England and Kathryn Edin, Briefing Paper: Unmarried Couples
with Children: Why Don't They Marry? How Can Policy-Makers Promote
More Stable Relationships?
In the News: Marital Mythology: Why the New Crisis in Marriage
Isn't (Reason Online)
In the News: Book Examines Trend of Unmarried Parents (National
Public Radio)
In the News: It Takes a Wedding (New York Times)
Andraé L. Brown, Melina Dimitriou, and Lisa Dressner, Rituals
as Tools of Resistance-From Survival to Liberation
Part IV: The Unfinished Gender Revolution
Barbara J. Risman and Elizabeth Seale, Betwixt and Be Tween: Gender
Contradictions among Middle Schoolers
Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Paula England, and Alison C. K. Fogarty,
Orgasm in College Hookups and Relationships
Kathleen Gerson, Falling Back on Plan B: The Children of the Gender
Revolution Face Uncharted Territory
Oriel Sullivan, Changing Men's Contribution to Family Work
Oriel Sullivan and Scott Coltrane, Briefing Paper: Men's Changing
Contribution to Housework and Child Care
In the News: Chores for Two? Men Are Pitching in with Domestic
Duties More Than Ever Before (Christian Science Monitor)
Molly Monahan Lang and Barbara J. Risman, Briefing Paper: A
"Stalled" Revolution or a Still Unfolding One?
In the News: Signs of Détente in the Battle Between Venus and
Mars (New York Times)
David Cotter, Paula England, and Joan Hermsen, Briefing Paper: Moms
and Jobs: Trends in Mothers' Employment and Which Mothers Stay
Home
In the News: Working Moms More the Norm Than Exception (Palo Alto
Online)
Sanjiv Gupta, Briefing Paper: Women's Money Matters: Earnings and
Housework in Dual-Earner Families
In the News: Wealthier Women Do Less Housework (Daily
Collegian)
Lynn Prince Cooke, Briefing Paper: "Traditional" Marriages Now Less
Stable Than Ones Where Couples Share Work and Household
Chores
In the News: Matrimonial Bliss Lies in the Mop Bucket and Broom
(Seattle P-I)
Rhea V. Almedia, Domestic Violence in Heterosexual
Relationships
Conclusion
Barbara J. Risman, Families: A Great American Institution
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.1.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 782 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-93278-8 / 0393932788 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-93278-2 / 9780393932782 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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