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This highly regarded text, written by an award-winning author team, treats family diversity as the norm , while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships.

Diversity in Families looks at families not as "building blocks of societies" but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, "How do families really work?" and "Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?" Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas.

• Emphasizes the influences of social forces on family forms, by highlighting the effects that race, class, gender, and sexuality have on family diversity.

• Chapter 1 reviews popular images, ideals, and myths about families.

• Human agency shows how family members respond to various social conditions and actively produce change in their family environments.

• Especially strong in its inclusion of feminist scholarship and conflict theory.

• "Inside the Worlds of Diverse Families" boxes focus on global issues such as transnational families, conducting global research on families, and mini-ethnographies that help students learn about diverse families around the world.

• Strong pedagogy to support student learning includes an extensive box program, featuring “Other Societies, Other Ways,” “Researching Families,” “Inside the World of Diverse Families,” and a NEW box, “The Impact of New Technologies on Family Life.”

• NEW research and extensive updates from some of the best family studies resources such as The Handbook of Marriage and Family, 2/e, the Handbook of Family Diversity, and the Journal of Marriage and the Family.

• NEW "The Impact of New Technologies on Family Life" boxes explore the impact of technology on the family and how new technologies and globalization are changing the fabric of everyday life for many families.

Preface.


 1. Images, Ideals, and Myths.


 2. Pre-Industrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form.


 3. The Historical Making of Family Diversity.


 4. Societal Upheavals and Family Formation.


 5. Class, Race, and Gender.


 6. Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family.


 7. The Social Construction of Intimacy.


 8. Contemporary Marriages.


 9. Parents and Children.


10. Violence in Families.


11. Divorce and Remarriage.


12. Domestic and Family Variations in a Global Era.


13. Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century.


Glossary.


Bibliography.


Photo Credits.

Sociology of Family  (Sociology)
Diverse Families  (Family Studies & Human Development)

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  Diversity in Families, 7/E
  Baca Zinn & Eitzen
  ©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 592 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205406173 | ISBN-13: 9780205406173
  Brief Description

  

  This award-winning text treats family diversity as the norm, while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships.

  Diversity in Families looks at families not as “building blocks of societies” but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, “How do families really work?” and “Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?” Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas.

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  Diversity in Families, 8/E
  Baca Zinn, Eitzen & Wells
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205491561 | ISBN-13: 9780205491568
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  This award-winning text treats family diversity as the norm, while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships.

  Diversity in Families looks at families not as “building blocks of societies” but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, “How do families really work?” and “Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?” Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas.

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