Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective

by Bron B Ingoldsby

• ISBN13: 9780761928195
• ISBN10: 0761928197
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-07
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

The Second Edition of Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective travels across geographic, cultural, and historical boundaries to explore the diversity of the world's families in family structure, processes, history, and social and environmental contexts. Editors Bron B. Ingoldsby and Suzanna D. Smith examine a full range of topics including family origin and universality, family functions, marital structure, kinship rules, comparative research methods, family development, marriage adjustment, parenting, divorce, and aging. This comprehensive text increases students' recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators' needs for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context. "The editors, both qualified scholars with a comparative perspective, have been successful in finding well-known authors for the various chapters. Both theoretical and methodological issues are dealt with in a nuanced and qualified manner.... The book is to be highly recommended to students, faculty, and libraries." Jan Trost, Professor Emeritus, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden "The strength of this book is its comparative approach under several theoretic frameworks... This book appears to be the most comprehensive study of global families." Heying Jenny Zhan, Georgia State University New to the Second Edition : Includes new chapters focussing on the Middle East and Pacific regions to introduce students to the variations in family life across such diverse areas Provides updated information about families around the world by expanding the contents to incorporate recent trends in family life Discusses increasingly salient topics that are rarely found in comparative family texts, such as social inequality as manifested in gender stratification, oppression of certain ethnic and cultural groups, and poverty Includes student exercises intended to increase student awareness and appreciation of diversity Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Sociology and Family Studies in courses such as Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Comparative Family Organization, Global and Diverse Families, World Families, and Families in Comparative Perspective.

Table of Contents

Foundations of Comparative Family Studies

Global Families

Comparative Family Research Methodology

The History of the Euro-Western Family

Part 1 Exercise: Comparative Family Research Study

Family Structure

Family Origin and Universality

Patterns of Kinship and Residence

Marital Structure

Religious Utopias and Family Structure

Part 2 Exercise: The Ethnic Genogram

Family Development

Mate Selection and Marriage

Parenting Practices Worldwide

International Divorce

Diversity in International Aging Families

Part 3 Exercise: Mate Selection

International Family Variation

Asian and Latino Immigrant Families

Families in the Islamic Middle East

Families in sub-Saharan Africa

Families in Latin America

Families in Japan

Part 4 Exercise: The Story of Jose and Lana

Social Inequality in the Contemporary World

Native American Families

Women in the Two-Thirds World

Household Division of Labor in Industrial Societies

Poverty and Family Policy in a Global Context

Part 5 Exercise: The Arias Family

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