Marriages and Families Census Update Plus MySocLab with eText -- Access Card Package (7th Edition) - Hardcover

Benokraitis, Nijole V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205968104 ISBN 13: 9780205968107

Publisher: Pearson, 2013

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-- Changes, Choices, and Constraints

 

Marriages and Families, Census Update, 7e offers students a comprehensive introduction to many issues facing families in the twenty-first century.

 

The text’s major theme, “Changes, Choices, and Constraints,” explores: contemporary changes in families and their structure, impacts on the choices available to family members, and constraints that often limit our choices. Through this approach, students are better able to understand what the research and statistics mean for themselves. 

 

Marriages and Families, Census Update balances theoretical and empirical discussions with practical examples and applications. It highlights important contemporary changes in society and the family. This text is written from a sociological perspective and incorporates material from other disciplines: history, economics, social work, psychology, law, biology, medicine, family studies, women's studies, and anthropology.

 

The Census Update program incorporates 2010 Census data into a course–simply and easily. The components of the Census Update Program include an updated census edition with all charts and graphs–to reflect the results of the 2010 Census. In addition, A Short Introduction to the U.S. Census is available and an updated MyFamilyLab.

 

Teaching & Learning Experience

• Personalize Learning –MyFamilyLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• Improve Critical Thinking – Feature questions encourage students to reflect on chapter studies and relate them to personal experience.
• Engage Students – Current research relates to the students’ own lives.
• Explore Theory – Written from a sociological perspective and incorporates material from other disciplines.
• Support Instructors – MyFamilyLab enables instructors to assess student progress and adapt course material to meet the specific needs of the class.

0205968104 / 9780205968107 Marriages and Families Census Update Plus MySocLab with eText -- Access Card Package

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0205669174 / 9780205669172 MySocLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card

 

About this title

About the Author

Nijole V. Benokraitis, professor emerita of sociology at the University of Baltimore, taught the marriage and family course for almost 25 years. It was her favorite class but her courses in racial and ethnic relations and gender roles ran a close second. Professor Benokraitis received a B.A. in sociology and English from Emmanuel College in Boston, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

She was a strong proponent of applied sociology and required her students to enhance their knowledge through interviews, direct observation, and other hands-on learning methods. She also enlisted her students in community service activities such as tutoring and mentoring inner-city high school students, writing to government officials and other decision makers about specific social problems, and volunteering research services to nonprofit organizations.

 

Professor Benokraitis immigrated to the United States from Lithuania with her family after World War II as a political refugee when she was five years old. She is bilingual and bicultural and is very empathetic of students who must balance the demands of several cultural worlds.

 

She has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited ten books, including Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, Contemporary Ethnic Families in the United States: Characteristics, Variations, and Dynamics; Feuds about Families: Conservative, Centrist, Liberal, and Feminist Perspectives; and Modern Sexism: and Blatant, Subtle, and Covert Discrimination. Dr. Benokraitis has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics such as institutional racism, discrimination against women in government and higher education, fathers in two-earner families, displaced homemakers, and family policy.

 

She has received grants and fellowships from many institutions, including the National Institute of Mental Health, the Ford Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, the Administration on Aging, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has also served as a consultant in the areas of sex and race discrimination to women’s commissions, business groups, colleges and universities, federal government programs, and the American Association of University Women’s International Fellowships Program.

 

Dr. Benokraitis has made several appearances on radio and television shows on gender communication differences and single-sex educational institutions. She currently serves on the editorial board of Women & Criminal Justice and reviews manuscripts for several academic journals.

 

Professor Benokraitis lives in Maryland with her husband, Dr. Vitalius Benokraitis, a vice president at a technology assessment company. They have two adult children, Gema and Andrius.

 

The author looks forward (and always responds) to comments on the 7th edition of Marriages and Families: Changes, Choices, and Constraints. She can be reached at nbenokraitis@ubalt.edu.

Review

I liked this book, because I feel it is very readable and understandable, especially for freshmen or non-majors. In addition, Benokraitis gives very detailed and relevant examples or scenarios relating to the concepts covered in the respectable chapter. The book is extremely interesting and enjoyable.

Moshe Braunstein

Jersey City University

 

Very current and extremely informative about the family, both historically and in contemporary society.  I also think that the author has a way of writing about the material so that the content is provocative and the issues really come alive for the reader.

Prof. Kathryn Bonach

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

 

I think this is one of the most “teachable” texts I have read on this subject.  Even if the instructor doesn’t think of a question a student may want to ask, the author has already done that for us in the “since you asked” section.  I like the current trends in research that are discussed as well.  It lends credibility to the instructor to know about current things in the field and the author has done a good job of incorporating that in the chapters.

Prof. Michelle Knoles

Cowley County Community College

 

This is an engaging text.  Benokraitis has achieved an admirable goal – her text is interesting and detailed but not dry, fun and applied but still academically strong.  Very well done.

Prof. Erica Owens Yeager

West Virginia University

 

I found the text easy to read and very interesting. The examples are timely and up to date.  Students can remember these events and that will help them make connections between real-world events and course material. The graphics and pictures are excellent [and] will help students comprehend an often difficult and abstract topic of theory for them.

Prof. Darby Sewell

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0205968104
• ISBN 13: 9780205968107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 608