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Exploring Marriages and Families Plus NEW MySocLab with eText -- Access Card Package - Karen T. Seccombe

Exploring Marriages and Families Plus NEW MySocLab with eText -- Access Card Package

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576 Seiten
2012
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978-0-205-91519-4 (ISBN)
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--Connects theory to reality.

 

Exploring Marriages and Families uses compelling real-life video interviews, stories, and photos to help connect social theory to reality.  Readers learn how social, cultural, and political factors will affect their own decision making in relationships.

 

Upon finishing this book, readers will understand the relevance of social science to their lives and have a solid theoretical, research-based understanding of marriages and families. 

 

In addition, this book helps readers learn more about their own lives and those of others, how to make better decisions about their relationships, and how social and political forces will affect their decision-making.  Integrated video interviews, photos, assessments and stories about real families help readers learn how to apply information to their own lives.

 

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Karen Seccombe is a professor in the School of Community Health at Portland State University, located in Portland, Oregon. She received her B.A. in sociology at California State University, Chico, her M.S.W. in health and social welfare policy from the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University. Her research focuses on poverty, welfare, access to health care, and the effects of social inequality on families. She is the author of Marriage and Family: You and Society (Pearson); “So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?”: Welfare Recipients’ Perspectives on the System and its Reform, 3rd edition (Allyn and Bacon); Families in Poverty (Allyn and Bacon); Just Don’t Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform, with Kim Hoffman (Rutgers University Press), and Marriages and Families: Relationships in Social Context, with Rebecca L. Warner (Wadsworth). She is a National Council on Family Relations fellow, and a member of the American Sociological Association, and the Pacific Sociological Association, where she has held elective offices. Karen lives in Portland with her husband Richard, a health economist, her ten-year-old daughter, Natalie Rose, and her eight-year-old daughter, Olivia Lin. In her spare time she enjoys hiking near their cabin in the Oregon Cascades, walking the sandy beaches of the Oregon coast, exploring the kid-friendly playgrounds, attractions, and restaurants in Portland and surrounding areas, and traveling just about anywhere—the San Juan Islands are high on her list.

IN THIS SECTION:

 

1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

2. COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 1:  Why Study Families and Other Close Relationships?

Chapter 2: Social Status: Sex, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class

Chapter 3:  Building Relationships

Chapter 4:  Love and Loving Relationships

Chapter 5:  Sexual Identity, Behavior, and Relationships





Chapter 6:  Communication, Conflict, and Power in Our Relationships 

Chapter 7:  Marriage

Chapter 8:  Thinking about Parenthood





Chapter 9:  Raising Children

Chapter 10:  Families and the Work They Do





Chapter 11:  Family Stress and Crisis: Violence among Intimates

Chapter 12:  The Process of Divorce

Chapter 13:  Family Life, Partnering, and Remarriage after Divorce

Chapter 14:  Families in Middle and Later Life

Chapter 15:  Looking Ahead: Helping Families Flourish

 

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

PART I: Families and Intimate Relationships:  Key Concepts

 

Chapter 1: Why Study Families and Other Close Relationships?

How Do We Define Family?





 The Functions of Families

 Theme 1: Linking the Micro- and Macro-Level Perspectives on Families

 Theme 2: Families are Always Changing





 Theme 3: The Importance of Social Science Theory and Research

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 2: Social Status: Sex, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class





 The Link between Private Experiences and Social Structure  Sex, Gender, and Patriarchy





 Race and Ethnicity

 Social Class





 Poverty

 The Intersections of Sex, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

PART II: The Foundations of Relationships

 

Chapter 3: Building Relationships

 Singlehood

 Friendships





 Dating, Courtship, and Mate Selection





 Heterosexual Cohabitation





 Gay and Lesbian Intimate Relationships

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 4: Love and Loving Relationships

 What Is Love?

 Love as Attachment

 Images of Love in History  

 Contemporary Ideas about Love





 Theoretical Perspectives on Love





 How We Experience Love

 The Downside to Relationships and Love

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 5: Sexual Identity, Behavior, and Relationships

 Overview of Historical and Cultural Influences on Sexuality

 Our Sexual Selves:  Biology and Culture Intertwined





 Sexual Scripts

 Gender and Sexual Scripts: The Double Standard

 Studying Human Sexuality

 Sexual Behaviors

 Sexual Expression throughout Our Lives

 Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Relationships

 Sex as a Social Problem: Sexually Transmitted Infections





 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 6: Communication, Conflict, and Power in Our Relationships

 The Importance of Communication

 The Cultural Context of Communication: Embracing Difference

 Types of Communication 

 Sex Differences in Communication

 Communicating to Keep Your Relationships Strong:  Self-Disclosure

 Conflict, Communication, and Problem Solving





 Power, Control, and Decision Making

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 7: Marriage

 Marriage: Here, There, and Everywhere

 Marriage in U.S. History

 What Is Happening to Marriage Today?

 The Marriage Premium: Happiness, Health, and Economic Security

 Does Marriage Benefit Everyone Equally?

 Marital Satisfaction and Success





 The Marriage Movement and Covenant Marriage

 Peer Marriage

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

PART III:  Parents and their Children

 

Chapter 8: Thinking about Parenthood

 Population and Fertility Trends Worldwide

 Fertility in the United States





 The Costs and Rewards of Raising Children

 Remaining Childfree





 The Interconnection of Micro and Macro: Childbirth

 Other Paths to Parenthood: Adoption

 The Transition to Parenthood





 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 9: Raising Children

 Parenting: It’s Not the Same Everywhere

 Socialization: Learning to be Human

 Parenting Styles

 Mothering

 Fathering

 How Do Children Influence their Parents?

 Parenting and Family Contexts





 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 10: Families and the Work They Do

 The Changing Dynamics of the Workplace

 Life in a Recession





 Family Work At Home





 Juggling Work and Family Life

 Diversity in Families: Why We Chose to Live in Hungary

 Who’s Minding the Kids?

 Bringing it Full Circle

 

PART IV:  Family Strengths, Challenges, and Reorganization

 

Chapter 11: Family Stress and Crisis: Violence among Intimates

 The Nature of Stress and Crisis

 Intimate Partner Violence

 Child Abuse and Neglect

 Elder Abuse

 Explanations for Violence among Intimates

 The Public’s Response

  Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 12: The Process of Divorce

 Divorce in the United States

 Why Do People Divorce?





 Experiencing Divorce

 Divorce and Children: Child Support

 What Are the Effects of Divorce on Children? 

 Should Divorce Be More Difficult to Obtain?

 The “Good Divorce”

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 13: Family Life, Partnering, and Remarriage after Divorce

 Being Single Again

 Repartnering after Divorce

 Remarriage

 Stepfamilies

 Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamilies

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 14: Families in Middle and Later Life

 The Demographic Revolution

 Aging in Historical Perspective

 Family Transitions





 The Aging Couple

 Widowhood

 Grandparents and Their Grandchildren

 Retirement

 Health  

 Bringing It Full Circle

 

Chapter 15: Looking Ahead: Helping Families Flourish

 What Do Families Need to Flourish?



 Family Policy



 Building Resilience: General Policies and Programs to Support Families

 Specific Policies and Programs for Children  

 Specific Policies and Programs for the Elderly  

 What Have We Learned?   

 Bringing It Full Circle

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.11.2012
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-205-91519-1 / 0205915191
ISBN-13 978-0-205-91519-4 / 9780205915194
Zustand Neuware
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