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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Shirley A Hill |
ISBN: | 9781412998017 1412998018 |
OCLC Number: | 694393963 |
Notes: | Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Family Studies and Social Inequalities Chapter One: The Evolution of Families and MarriagesChapter Two: Theorizing Social Inequalities Chapter Three: Elite and Upper-Class Families Chapter Four: Middle-Class Families: Stability and ChangeChapter Five: Economically-Marginal Families: Living on the EdgeChapter Six: Families in Global Economic Context. |
Description: | xxxiii, 149 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction : Family studies and social inequalities ; Understanding families in social context ; Social inequality: the seeds of discontent ; The revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s ; Making social class visible ; Defining social class ; Brief overview of chapters -- 1. The evolution of families and marriages : Families and marriage: a brief history ; Early hunting and gathering societies ; Settled agricultural societies: the rise of social inequalities ; Transformations in families and marriages ; Institutionalizing inequalities: gender and race ; Social inequalities in colonial America ; Industrialization and the modern family ; The sociological study of families ; The modern isolated nuclear family ; Middle-class America: realities, myths, and transitions ; The post-industrial economy and growing class inequality -- 2. Theorizing social inequalities : Structural functionalism ; Symbolic interactionism ; Conflict theory ; Theorizing gender inequality ; Theorizing race and ethnicity ; Bringing social class back in -- 3. Elite and upper-class families : Defining the upper class ; Economic elites: historic origins ; Family life in the upper class ; Marital and gender relations ; Socializing children -- 4. Middle-class families: stability and change : Origins of the middle class ; The modern middle-class family ; Postmodern middle-class families ; Renegotiating family work ; Balancing work and family: beyond the housework dilemma ; Having and rearing children ; Gender and racial socialization ; The decline of the middle class -- 5. Economically marginal families: living on the edge : Who are the economically marginal? ; Explaining poverty ; The marriage decline ; Strained gender relations ; Having and rearing children ; Life in single-mother families ; The well-being of children in single-parent families ; Social policy and the poor ; Is marriage the answer? -- 6. Families in global economic context : Theorizing global inequalities ; Race and ethnicity in global perspective ; Families across the globe ; The persistence of economic and social class inequality. |
Series Title: | Contemporary family perspectives. |
Responsibility: | Shirley A. Hill. |
Abstract:
A brief, affordable book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affects the concept of family today.
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