Understanding Families series – serie
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19 produkter
No More Kin
Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks
Inbunden, 1997
2517 kr
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Black and Latino families are in fact highly family-oriented and want to be involved in exchange networks but, because they are economically disenfranchised, they are prevented from participation. The vitriolic debate on welfare reform currently sweeping the nation assumes that if institutional …
No More Kin
Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks
Häftad, 1997
1623 kr
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Black and Latino families are in fact highly family-oriented and want to be involved in exchange networks but, because they are economically disenfranchised, they are prevented from participation. The vitriolic debate on welfare reform currently sweeping the nation assumes that if institutional …
Families Making Sense of Death
Häftad, 1997
2101 kr
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Grief can be an isolating experience. When a family member dies the loss goes beyond individual grief. Its concentric circles encompass all the living members of a family, and even alter interactions within that family. In Families Making Sense of Death, Janice Winchester Nadeau explores the …
Black Families in Corporate America
Häftad, 1998
2165 kr
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What progress have African Americans made in corporate America? This book examines the evidence by drawing on studies of almost 200 black corporate managers and their families. A past president of the New York State Council on Family Relations, author Susan D. Toliver, shows that black families …
African American Children
Socialization and Development in Families
Häftad, 1999
2082 kr
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Shifting the focus from intervention with problem populations, this book targets the everyday socialization of African American children. African American Children is a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary patterns of parenting in black families. Historically, it focuses on how …
Romancing the Honeymoon
Consummating Marriage in Modern Society
Av Kris Bulcroft, Linda E. Smeins m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2420 kr
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Romancing the Honeymoon is the first comprehensive look at the North American honeymoon from a multidisciplinary academic perspective. Using theoretical and methodological approaches from sociology, history, and cultural studies, this benchmark study presents a compelling discussion of the cultural …
Romancing the Honeymoon
Consummating Marriage in Modern Society
Av Kris Bulcroft, Linda E. Smeins m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
1623 kr
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Romancing the Honeymoon is the first comprehensive look at the North American honeymoon from a multidisciplinary academic perspective. Using theoretical and methodological approaches from sociology, history, and cultural studies, this benchmark study presents a compelling discussion of the cultural …
Problem Solving in Families
Research and Practice
Häftad, 1999
1623 kr
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"This well-written book skillfully introduces the readers to the history of family problem solving. The range and quality of content in the book is vast and comprehensive. Strength lies within the detailed review of the literature. Readers seeking a wealth of information in a single volume may find …
Reshaping Fatherhood
The Social Construction of Shared Parenting
Häftad, 1998
1623 kr
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Current research on fatherhood often focuses on minimal changes men have made in their participation in family life. Anna Dienhart argues that men have indeed made significant changes to their family roles, but those changes are often masked in existing discourses on fatherhood. In Reshaping …
The Changing Transition to Adulthood
Leaving and Returning Home
Av Francis K. (Kobrin) Goldscheider, Calvin Goldscheider
Inbunden, 1999
2856 kr
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This book places changes in leaving and returning home in the context of the major events of 20th century America. The authors examine the reasons children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. Using data from the National Survey of …
The Changing Transition to Adulthood
Leaving and Returning Home
Av Francis K. (Kobrin) Goldscheider, Calvin Goldscheider
Häftad, 1999
2165 kr
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This book places changes in leaving and returning home in the context of the major events of 20th century America. The authors examine the reasons children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. Using data from the National Survey of …
Families and Communes
An Examination of Nontraditional Lifestyles
Häftad, 1999
1623 kr
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What is life like in contemporary American communes? How do families fit into communal life? What are communal families, and what impact do families have on how communes are run and how they develop? As the only contemporary exploration of communal families, this book investigates the assumptions …
Adolescents, Work, and Family
An Intergenerational Developmental Analysis
Av Mortimer, Jeylan T. Mortimer m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
1623 kr
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What does an adolescent really learn about adult responsibilities from holding down a paying job or doing household chores? Does a teenager's employment lead to change in the family? Based on an 8-year study, Adolescents, Work, and Family examines how adolescents' work experiences, both within the …
Understanding Latino Families
Scholarship, Policy, and Practice
Av Zambrana, Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD
Inbunden, 1995
2971 kr
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Offering an integrated, culturally sensitive focus, Understanding Latino Families presents a dynamic new approach to the study of Latino families. This new approach centers on the strengths of Latino/Hispanic groups, the structural processes that impede their progress, and the cultural and familial …
Understanding Latino Families
Scholarship, Policy, and Practice
Av Ruth Enid Prof Zambrana, Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD
Häftad, 1995
2165 kr
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Offering an integrated, culturally sensitive focus, Understanding Latino Families presents a dynamic new approach to the study of Latino families. This new approach centers on the strengths of Latino/Hispanic groups, the structural processes that impede their progress, and the cultural and familial …
Multiracial Couples
Black & White Voices
Av Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri Karis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
2856 kr
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In Multiracial Couples, 21 couples in which one partner is black and the other is white talk about their experiences. The book offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis based on extensive quotations. It discusses the fact that these couples see their relationships as ordinary, as well as their …
Multiracial Couples
Black & White Voices
Av Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri Karis m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
2165 kr
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In Multiracial Couples, 21 couples in which one partner is black and the other is white talk about their experiences. The book offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis based on extensive quotations. It discusses the fact that these couples see their relationships as ordinary, as well as their …
Contemporary Parenting
Challenges and Issues
Häftad, 1997
1623 kr
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This edited volume addresses one of the central issues of family studiesùparenting. Editor Terry Arendell uses the social constructionist and the feminist lens to examine current controversies and issues of interest to family professionals and students. This important new volume deals with the …
Families & Time
Keeping Pace in a Hurried Culture
Häftad, 1996
2165 kr
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What is family time and what value do we place on it? How many families today have time to be families? How do families view, use, and seek to control time, and how successful are they at it? Caught between a public world speeding along on information superhighways and their own private desire to …
