Families in Context - Softcover

Starbuck, Gene H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612057756 ISBN 13: 9781612057750

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

The most thoroughly updated edition yet, this book offers students perspectives of changes in marriage and family over time, including the impact of the Great Recession and of new media technologies. A hallmark of Families in Context remains the well-researched, data-driven quality of the text. Beyond presenting thoroughly updated statistics and literature, each chapter examines new trends and assesses their implications for students' lives. The underlying presentation remains balanced, theoretically grounded, and accessible to a wide variety of classes, allowing students of all ages and family backgrounds to draw their own conclusions about controversial topics. Features of the new edition include coverage of the Affordable Care Act; new social media and families; the latest trends in poverty, education, social mobility, gender, identities and healthcare; updated 'In the News' features and author-created PowerPoint slides.

About this title

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.

Review:

Praise for previous editions:

"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

"One of the best, if not the very best, sociology of the family books available."
―Norval Glenn, The University of Texas at Austin

"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

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1612057756
• ISBN 13: 9781612057750
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 580