Diversity in Families - Hardcover

Baca-Zinn, Maxine; Eitzen, D. Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067399080X ISBN 13: 9780673990808

Publisher: Harper Collins, 1996

Synopsis

Unlike most texts on the family, this highly regarded work treats diversity as the norm in modern family life, exploring the many varieties of familial relationships found in American society. Viewing the family on both the "macro" and "micro" levels, it examines the influence of larger social trends on personal experience with particular attention to gender, race, class, and economic factors.

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From the Back Cover:

Diversity in Families, 8/e

Maxine  Baca Zinn
D. Stanley Eitzen
Barbara  Wells

ISBN-10:      0-205-49156-1

ISBN-13:      978-0-205-49156-8

 

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067399080X
• ISBN 13: 9780673990808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 535
• Illustrator: Illustrated Throughout