Choices in Relationships: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family (with InfoTrac) - Hardcover

Knox, David; Schacht, Caroline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534589146 ISBN 13: 9780534589141

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2001

Synopsis

This book supports the goals of most professors: applies research and theory to the readers' lives, encourages lively 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 readers how positive outcomes in personal relationships depend on making intelligent choices. The book helps readers 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. Readers 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.

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: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0534589146
• ISBN 13: 9780534589141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592