Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society / Edition 12

by Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann, Susan D Stewart

Overview

This best-selling text on marriages, families, and relationships combines an authoritative, yet applied approach with a theme that is especially relevant today: making choices in a diverse society. A balance of various theoretical perspectives along with many examples helps readers understand how people are influenced by the society around them, how social conditions change in ways that affect family life, the interplay between families and the larger society, and the family-related choices that individuals make throughout adulthood. Readers gain insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and family forms, and are encouraged to question assumptions and reconcile conflicting ideas and values as they make informed choices in their own lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781285736976
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/15/2014
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mary Ann Lamanna is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University (St. Louis) in political science, her master's degree in sociology (minor in psychology) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her doctorate in sociology from the University of Notre Dame. Research and teaching interests include family, reproduction, and gender and law. She is the author of Emile Durkheim on the Family (Sage, 2002) and co-author of a book on Vietnamese refugees. She has articles in law, sociology, and medical humanities journals. Current research concerns the sociology of literature, specifically "novels of terrorism" and a sociological analysis of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time. Professor Lamanna has two adult children, Larry and Valerie.

Table of Contents

1. Making Family Choices in a Changing Society. 2. Exploring Relationships and Families. 3. Our Gendered Identities. 4. Our Sexual Selves. 5. Love and Choosing a Life Partner. 6. Living Alone, Cohabiting, Same-Sex Unions, and Other Intimate Relationships. 7. Marriage: From Social Institution to Private Relationship. 8. Deciding About Parenthood. 9. Raising Children in a Diverse Society. 10. Work, Family, and the Economy. 11. Communication in Relationships, Marriages, and Families. 12. Power and Violence in Families. 13. Family Stress, Crisis, and Resilience. 14. Divorce and Relationship Dissolution. 15. Remarriages and Stepfamilies. 16. Aging and Multigenerational Families.