The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Written 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. Covers 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 Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe Extensively 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 INDICE: Contributors Preface GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES 1 Göran Therborn Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 2 Trude Lappegård Changing European Families 3 Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 4 Yen–Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui–Chung Allen Li Family Change in East Asia 5 Irma Arriagada Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families DIVERSITY, INEQUALITY AND IMMIGRATION 6 Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll, and Nathaniel Burke Same–Sex Families 7 Rys Farthing Family Poverty 8Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding Transnational Families 9 Alison Shaw Ethnic Diversity in the UK: Family Forms and Conjugality 10 Karen D. Pyke Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the U.S. FAMILY FORMS AND FAMILY INFLUENCES 11 Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock Cohabitation:  An Assessment 12 Eric D. Widmer Partnerships, Family and Personal Configurations 13 Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer, and Kristi Williams Health and Families 14 Christopher Ellison and Xiaohe Xu Religion and Families FAMILY PROCESSES 15 Juho Härkönen Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, Consequences 16 Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines, and Murray A. Straus Partner Violence in World Perspective 17 Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis Money Management, Gender, and Households 18 Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVES 19 Matthijs Kalmijn Adult Intergenerational Relationships 20 Jacqueline Scott Children’s Families—A Child–Centered Perspective 21 Kevin Roy Fathers and Fatherhood 22 Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam, and Melanie N.G. Jackson Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course FAMILIES IN CONTEXT 23 Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle–Rushton Public Policy and Families 24 Hadas Mandel Family Policy and Wives? Economic Independence 25 Martin Richards Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies and Family Life 26 Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott Sex, Family, and Social Change 27 Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck–Gernsheim The Global Chaos of Love: Towards a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families

• ISBN: 978-0-470-67353-9
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 11/04/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés