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Treats Family Diversity as the Norm
Diversity in Families, 10/e by Maxine Baca Zinn, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Barbara Wells is organized around the structural-diversity framework. This framework views family diversity as the norm and follows that all families in society are shaped through their interaction with social structures. Families are viewed not as the “building blocks of societies” but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors demystify and demythologize the family by exposing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas, allowing students to emerge with an understanding of why families are diverse.
Maxine Baca Zinn is professor emerita in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oregon. Her books include: Women of Color in U.S. Society (with Bonnie Thornton Dill), and Gender Through the Prism of Difference (with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael Messner). She is the coauthor (with D. Stanley Eitzen) of Social Problems and Diversity in Families, both of which won McGuffey Awards for excellence over multiple editions from the Text and Academic Authors Association, and Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds. She has served as president of the Western Social Science Association. In 2000, she received the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award for expanding the horizons of sociology to include the study of women.
D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus in sociology from Colorado State University, where previously he was the John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. He recieved his Ph.D. from the Unitsity of Kansas. Among his books are: Social Problems, which was awarded the McGuffey Longevity Award for excellence over multiple editions in 2000 by the Text and Academic Authors Association, and Diversity in Families (both co-authored with Maxine Baca Zinn), Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies (with Graig S. Leeham) , Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis (with Doug A. Timmer and Kathryn Talley), Sociology of North American Sport (with George H. Sage,) and Fair and Foul: Rethinking the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. He has served as the president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and as editor of The Social Science Journal.
Barbara Wells is associate professor of sociology at Maryville College, where she is also chair of the Division of Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. She is co-author of Diversity in Families (with Maxine Baca Zinn and D. Stanley Eitzen). Her research and publishing has centered on marriage, rural families, structural transformation and family life, and Latino families. She is presently working on a book manuscript on the work and family lives of Mexican American women who are daughters and granddaughters of immigrant farm workers.
In this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. Brief Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Images, Ideals, and Myths
Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: The New Immigration and the Aging of Society
Chapter 6: Class, Race, and Gender
Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
Chapter 10: Parents and Children
Chapter 11: Violence in Families
Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
Chapter 13: Emergent Families in the Global Era
Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
2. Full Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Images, Ideals, and Myths
Images and Ideals
Images and Reality
The Mythical U.S. Family
A New Framework for Understanding Families
Additional Features of This Book
Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
Myths and Realities
Family and the New Social History
Family Life in Colonial America
The Emergence of Modern Family Life
Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
Myths and Realities
Industrialization and Family Life
Immigration and Family Life
Racial Control and Family Life
The Great Depression and Family Change
Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
Myths and Realities
The Structural Transformation of the Economy
The Transformation of the Economy and The Great Recession
Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: The New Immigration and the Aging of Society
Myths and Realities
The New Immigration and the Changing Racial Landscape
The Aging of Society
Chapter 6: Class, Race, and Gender
Myths and Realities
Class, Race, and Gender as Structural Inequalities
Class
Race
Gender
Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
Myths and Realities
The Changing Work Patterns of Women, Men, and Teens
Integrating Work and Family
Invisible and Unpaid Family Work
Coping with Work and Family
Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
Myths and Realities
Intimacy in Social Context
Heterosexual Mate Selection and Intimate Partnering
Changing Sexual Behavior
Differentiated Forms of Intimacy
Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
Myths and Realities
Marriage: Private and Public Spheres
Recent Trends
Are There Benefits to Marriage?
Micro Aspects of Marriage
Reconstructing Gender Roles: Building an Egalitarian Marriage
The Future of Marriage: Changing or Dying?
Chapter 10: Parents and Children
Myths and Realities
The Social Construction of Parenting
The Social Construction of Childhood
Demographic Patterns
The Impact of Children on Marriage
The Impact of Parents on Children and of Children on Parents
Parents and Children in Dual-Earner Families
Reprise: The Duality of Parenting
Single Parents and Their Children
Reprise: The Duality of Parenting
Chapter 11: Violence in Families
Myths and Realities
Families in a Violent Society
Intimate Partner Violence
Child Abuse and Neglect
Incest
Sibling Abuse
Elder Abuse
Macro and Micro Linkages
Agency
Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
Myths and Realities
Divorce Rates
Predicting the Divorce Rate: Up or Down?
The Consequences of Divorce for Spouses and Children
Remarriage after Divorce
The Politics of Divorce
Is Marriage a Failed Institution?
Chapter 13: Emergent Families in the Global Era
Myths and Realities
The Rise in New Family Arrangements
Single Life
Heterosexual Cohabitation
Same-Sex Partners and Families
Families Separated by Time and Space
Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Myths and Realities
The Ideological Fault Lines
The Government’s Limits on the Definition of Marriage
The Government and Reproductive Rights
Welfare
Working Parents
Meeting the Needs of Disadvantaged Children
Principles to Guide Family Policy: An Immodest Proposal
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