Families: Joys, Conflicts, and Changes
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Book Description
Unlike other family books that emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities. Its perspective reflects polls and surveys indicating that most people value their families. Families everywhere provide love, support, and sustenance to their members, but they do so in many different arrangements. Understanding the wide variety of families historically and across cultures gives the student a better basis for understanding how families change-and a better grasp of more controversial changes such as the gradual acceptance by Westerners of single-sex marriage and child-rearing.
Liazos offers two poignant chapters not found in other texts. Family Living (Chapter Six) focuses on the social value of caregiving and family means. Kin and Community (Chapter Seven) focuses on relationships among kin and the larger community.
About the Author
Alex Liazos is professor of Sociology at Regis College in Weston, MA and the author of two other texts in sociology: People First: An Introduction to Social Problems (Allyn and Bacon) and Sociology: A Liberating Perspective (Allyn and Bacon).
Families: Joys, Conflicts, and Changes,Alex Liazos,Paradigm Publishers,1594510164,Family,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,General,Social Change,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - General,Sociology - Marriage & Family,United States
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