[PDF mobi ePub] Sociology of Families: Change, C

Teresa Ciabattari's Family Change, Family Continuity is a core text for the Sociology of Family course. Two key features make this text stand out. Many texts end with a chapter on changes in the family as a social institution over the years. In this text, the themes of both Change and Continuity will run throughout the book. Also, most texts have separate chapters on Race, Social Class, and Gender as applied to the study of families. In this text, issues of race, class, and gender are discussed in every chapter, in the context of other subjects. For instance, the Marriage and Cohabitation chapter looks at marriage rates for different racial and ethnic groups; how the breakdown of social distance among groups is increasing rates of interracial marriage; and the connections between social class markers (education, occupation, income) and marriage markets. The integration of family change, race, class, and gender in this text results in a TOC with fewer chapters overall.