Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective
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...
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Twenty-two academics and independent scholars, most from the U.S., contribute 20 chapters to a textbook that explores the diversity of the world's families. The second edition incorporates updated information throughout the text on recent trends in family life, and includes new chapters on the Middle East and Pacific regions and new material on social inequality as manifested in gender stratification, oppression of certain ethnic and cultural groups, and poverty. For advanced undergraduate and graduate students in sociology and family studies courses. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Part I: Foundations of Comparative Family Studies1. Global Families - Suzanna Smith2. Comparative Family Research Methodology - Gary Lee, Nancy Greenwood3. The History of the Euro-Western Family - Bron IngoldsbyPart 1 Exercise: Comparative Family Research StudyPart II: Family Structure4. Family Origin and Universality - Bron Ingoldsby5. Patterns of Kinship and Residence - Max Stanton6. Marital Structure - Bron Ingoldsby7. Religious Utopias and Family Structure - Bron IngoldsbyPart 2 Exercise: The Ethnic GenogramPart III: Family Development8. Mate Selection and Marriage - Bron Ingoldsby9. Parenting Practices Worldwide - Judith Myers-Walls, Karen Myers-Bowman, German Posada10. International Divorce - Patrick McKenry, Sharon Price11. Diversity in International Aging Families - Richard Miller, William MeredithPart 3 Exercise: Mate SelectionPart IV: International Family Variation12. Asian and Latino Immigrant Families - Walter Kawamoto, Rueben Anguiano13. Families in the Islamic Middle East - Bahira Sherif-Trask14. Families in sub-Saharan Africa - Stephan Wilson, Lucy Ngige15. Families in Latin America - Bron Ingoldsby16. Families in Japan - Colleen Murray, Naoko KimuraPart 4 Exercise: The Story of Jose and LanaPart V: Social Inequality in the Contemporary World17. Native American Families - Tamara Cheshire18. Women in the Two-Thirds World - Sandra Russo, Suzanna Smith19. Household Division of Labor in Industrial Societies - Linda Haas20. Poverty and Family Policy in a Global Context - Mark Rank, Gautam YadamaPart 5 Exercise: The AriasFamily
\ Libra Publishers"This comprehensive text increases students' recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators' need for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context. "— Family Therapy\ \ \ \ \ Jan TrostThe 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. Comparative perspectives are on an historical as well as a global manner. The book is to be highly recommended to students, faculty and libraries.\ \ \ Heying Jenny Zhan"I like the organization of the chapters…The strength of this book is its comparative approach under several theoretic frameworks…I believe this book definitely has a market of its own. This book appears to be the most comprehensive study of global families. "\ \ \ \ \ Libra Publishers"This comprehensive text increases students' recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators' need for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context."\ \
