Choices in Relationships: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family - Hardcover

Knox, David; Schacht, Caroline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0314026053 ISBN 13: 9780314026057

Publisher: West Group, 1994

Synopsis

This text supports the goals of most professors: applies research and theory to the students' lives, encourages lively classroom discussion, and offers alternatives and choices. This is the best book to accomplish these goals. How? Interactive pedagogy (e.g. self assessments), currency of data, topics and topics, different teaching and learning appeals (text, illustrations, pedagogy), "Up Close"), writing style, and social policy issues within the context of the chapter. The authors show students how positive outcomes in personal relationships depend on making intelligent choices. The book helps students to explore the tradeoffs that choices involve, how to view situations in a positive light, and how not making a choice is really a choice. Students learn to approach every intimate relationship with the new freedom and new responsibility that choices involve.

About this title

About the Author

David Knox, Ph.D., is professor of sociology at East Carolina University, where he teaches courtship and marriage; marriage and the family; and sociology of human sexuality. He is a marriage and family therapist, as well as the author or co-author of 12 books and over 100 professional articles.

Caroline Schacht, M.A. in Sociology and M.A. in Family Relations, is instructor of sociology at East Carolina University and teaches courtship and marriage, introduction to sociology, and the sociology of food. Her clinical work includes marriage and family relationships. She is also a divorce mediator and the coauthor of several books, including UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS (Wadsworth 2010). She is married to David Knox.

Review

"The pedagogical features of this text are excellent. These help increase student understanding of interpersonal relationships and diversity in relationships rather than simply relegating it to one chapter. The non-biased view allows students to fully appreciate the challenges faced and rewards reaped by today’s American marriages and families."

"The pedagogical features in this textbook are unrivalled. I frequently receive marriage and family textbooks from various publishers. I have yet to come across a textbook with equal richness of pedagogical features."

About this edition

• Publisher: West Group
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0314026053
• ISBN 13: 9780314026057
• Binding: Hardcover