Family: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367315689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str.

Betty Farrell

Opis

Assumptions about the family of the past pervade the expectations we bring to our personal interactions and shape the way we think about and study the family as a social institution. Most often, undergraduate courses in family sociology have a ?marriage and family? focus, which emphasizes the dynamics of interpersonal relations and contemporary fam

Spis treści

1 Introduction -- 2 Childhood -- 3 Adolescent Sexuality -- 4 Marriage -- 5 Aging -- 6 Conclusion

O autorze

Betty G. Farrell is professor of sociology at Pitzer College.