Families and Society Classic and Contemporary Readings (with InfoTrac)

by Coltrane, Scott L.

• ISBN13: 9780534591304
• ISBN10: 0534591302
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-28
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This reader is designed to promote a sociological understanding of families, while at the same time demonstrating the diversity and complexity of contemporary family life. The different parts or sections of the reader are designed to "map" onto most sociology of the family textbooks and course syllabi.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Introduction	1	(6)
Defining Family	7	(30)
The Family: Its Structure and Functions	13	(9)
Rose Laub Coser
The Standard North American Family as an Ideological Code	22	(9)
Dorothy Smith
The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family	31	(6)
Paul Cantor
Sex and Romance	37	(44)
Jealousy and Sexual Property: An Illustration	45	(8)
Kingsley Davis
An All Consuming Love	53	(9)
Eva Illouz
Gender and Courtship Entitlement: Responses to Personal Ads	62	(11)
Erich Goode
Teenage Sexuality	73	(8)
Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
Marriage and Cohabitation	81	(46)
Marriage	89	(5)
Harriet Martineau
Cohabitation in the United States	94	(10)
Pamela Smock
The Future of Marriage	104	(13)
Stephanie Coontz
Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage	117	(10)
Angela Bolte
Reproduction, Birth, and Babies	127	(40)
Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children	133	(7)
Leta Hollingworth
Mothers Giving Birth to Motherhood	140	(12)
John Gillis
Parental Consciousness and Gender	152	(10)
Susan Walzer
Daddy Plants a Seed: Personhood Under Patriarchy	162	(5)
Barbara Katz Rothman
Childhood Socialization	167	(32)
Sex and Temperament	173	(7)
Margaret Mead
Childhood	180	(9)
Betty Farrell
Boys and Men in Families	189	(10)
Michele Adams
Scott Coltrane
Motherhood	199	(36)
Motherhood	209	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo	212	(12)
Bonnie Thorton Dill
The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood	224	(11)
Pierrette Hondagneu Sotelo
Ernestine Avila
Fatherhood	235	(36)
The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall	243	(9)
Jessie Bernard
Marriage, Work and Fatherhood in Men's Lives	252	(9)
Nicholas Townsend
A Christian Quest for Manhood	261	(10)
Susan Faludi
Families and Work	271	(38)
The Effects of Social Class on Parental Values	281	(9)
Melvin Kohn
Families on the Fault Line	290	(7)
Lillian Rubin
Equality Works	297	(6)
Francine Deutsch
The Political Economy of Constructing Family	303	(6)
Christopher Carrington
Divorce	309	(34)
Early Essays on Marriage and Divorce	317	(4)
John Stuart Mill
Wives' Marital Work in a Culture of Divorce	321	(12)
Karla Hackstaff
How Marriages End	333	(10)
Demie Kurz
Diversity in Family Forms	343	(48)
Remarriage	349	(6)
Jessie Bernard
Research on Stepparenting Families	355	(10)
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Single Parent Families	365	(12)
Stephen D. Sugarman
Adoptive Families in the United States	377	(14)
Christine Ward Gailey
Family Violence	391	(32)
The Man-Made Family	399	(3)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Basic Facts about Battering: Myths vs. Realities	402	(12)
Neil Jacobson
John Gottman
Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment	414	(9)
Murray Straus
Families over the Life Course	423	(36)
The Sociology of Parent-Youth Conflict	429	(9)
Kingsley Davis
``The Normal American Family'' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants	438	(13)
Karen Pyke
Extending the Family	451	(8)
John Logan
Glenna Spitze
Family Policy	459	(56)
Defining Family Policy	467	(14)
Nancy Hooyman
Judith Gonyea
Work, the Family, and Welfare	481	(9)
Sharon Hays
Public Policy and Family and Child Well-Being	490	(11)
Sandra Hofferth
Deborah Phillips
Natasha Cabrera
Creating a Caring Society	501	(14)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Glossary	515