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: Notes of Contributors viii .Preface xvi .PART I GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES .1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3Göran Therborn .2 Changing European Families 20Trude Lappegård .3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown .4 Family Change in East Asia 61Yen–Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui–Chung Allen Li .5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83Irma Arriagada .PART II DIVERSITY, INEQUALITY, AND IMMIGRATION .6 Same–Sex Families 109Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke .7 Family Poverty 132Rys Farthing .8 Transnational Families 155Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding .9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176Alison Shaw .10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194Karen D. Pyke .PART III FAMILY FORMS AND FAMILY INFLUENCES .11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock .12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236Eric D. Widmer .13 Health and Families 255Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams .14 Religion and Families 277Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu .PART IV FAMILY PROCESSES .15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303Juho Härkönen .16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus .17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis .18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix .PART V LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVES .19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385Matthijs Kalmijn .20 Children s Families: A Child–Centered Perspective 404Jacqueline Scott .21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424Kevin M. Roy .22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson .PART VI FAMILIES IN CONTEXT .23 Public Policy and Families 467Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle–Rushton .24 Family Policy and Wives Economic Independence 485Hadas Mandel .25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508Martin Richards .26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 527Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott .27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck–Gernsheim .Index 560

• ISBN: 978-1-119-40603-7
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 18/08/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés