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Synopsis
This Study Guide is designed to help students review and apply the material presented in the textbook, "Families in Context." Many of the sample questions were originally prepared by Wanda Clark for the first edition of the textbook. The organization of this study guide corresponds to chapters in "Families in Context."To learn more about the "Families in Context" main text, please visit the bookpage here: Families In Context, Second Edition, Revised & Updated
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About the Author
Gene H. Starbuck, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Mesa State College, has devoted his career to undergraduate teaching. The breadth of knowledge required to teach a number of subjects in a small sociology department has informed his topical coverage of marriages and families. He has also published and presented papers in gender, crime, human sexuality, and domestic violence.
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Praise for the First Edition
"This is the best presentation of the process of industrialization and its effects on the family I have seen in an undergraduate text."
--Theodore N. Greenstein, North Carolina State University
"Families in Context does a masterful job of locating the family within large-scale socioeconomic developments...The focus is substantively unique."
--Jon P. Bloch, Southern Connecticut State University
"The author has crafted a clear, concise, and meaningfully themed book that provides accurate and up-to-date scholarly family research, and also engages the reader."
--Henry Borne, Holy Cross College
"I think this book will be one of the best, if not the very best, sociology of the family books available."
--Norval Glenn, The University of Texas at Austin
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1594511993
- ISBN 13 9781594511998
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages160
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