Families in America, a new course-book by Susan L. Brown, was recently published by University of California Press, and is available today. Dr. Brown's book is part of the
Sociology in the Twenty-First Century series, which introduces students to a range of sociological issues of broad interest in the United
States today.
Brown employs ethnographic vignettes and demographic data to introduce students to twenty-first century perspectives on contemporary families. Appropriate as a primary or secondary text in classes on family and marriage, this book probes momentous shifts in the definition of family, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and policy debates on welfare reform and work-family issues. Brown also explores the rise in nonmarital childbearing and single-mother families and the decline of "traditional" marriage by delving into the historical roots of family change, current trends of family formation and dissolution, and the implications of family change for the well-being of adults and children. With a lens toward socioeconomic inequality and racial-ethnic variation in family patterns,
Families in America illustrates how family diversity is now the norm.
Available TODAY, August 1!
Families in America
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