Contributor
Scott, Jacqueline L.
Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2004.
Descriptionxxv, 596 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:Globalization and Western Bias in Family Sociology / Don Edgar, Independent Scholar. - Changing European Families: Trends and Issues / Kathleen Kiernan, London School of Economics and Political Science. - Recent Demographic Trends in the US and Implications for Well-Being / Sinikka Elliott and Debra Umberson, University of Texas at Austin. - Children, Families, States, and Changing Citizenship / Hilary Land, University of Bristol. - Families and Local Communities / Graham Crow, University of Southampton and Catherine Maclean, University of Edinburgh. - Generations, the Life Course, and Family Change / J. Beth Mabry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Roseann Giarrusso, and Vern L. Bengtson, University of Southern California. - Children's Families / Jacqueline Scott, University of Cambridge . - Aging and the Life Course / Chris Phillipson and Graham Allan, Keele University. - Parenting Practices / Duane F. Alwin, Pennsylvania State University. - Time, Through the Life Course, in the Family / Jonathan Gershuny, University of Essex. - Inequality and the Family / Philip N. Cohen, University of California, Irvine, and Danielle MacCartney, Independent Scholar. - Families of the Poor / Robert Walker and Claire Collins, Nottingham University. - Social Capital and the Family / Frank F. Furstenberg and Sarah B. Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania. - Family, the State, and Health Care: Changing Roles in the New Century / Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel, University of Texas at Austin . - Immigrant Families in the US / Karen Pyke, University of California, Riverside. - Immigrant Families in the UK / Alison Shaw, Brunel University . - Religion, Romantic Love, and the Family / Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge. - Trends in the Formation and Dissolution of Couples / Joanne J. Paetsch, Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, Nicholas M. Bala, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Lorne D. Bertrand, Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, and Lisa Glennon, Queen's University, Belfast. - Children, Families, and Divorce / Jan Pryor, Victoria University of Wellington, and Liz Trinder, University of East Anglia. - The Lesbian and Gay Family / Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University, Brian Heaphy, Nottingham Treat University, and Catherine Donovam, University of Sunderland. - Couples and Their Networks / Eric Widmer, University of Geneva. - Men in Families and Households / David H. J. Morgan, Independent Scholar. - Sex and Family: Changes and Challenges / Judith Treas, University of California, Irvine. - Feminism and the Family / Michelle Budig, University of Massachusetts. - Work and Families / Shirley Dex, Institute of Education, University of London. - Public Policy and Families / Wendy Sigle-Rushton, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Catherine Kenney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. - Assisted Reproduction, Genetic Technologies, and Family Life / Martin Richards, University of Cambridge. - Families in a Runaway World / Ulrich Beck, University of Munich, and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, University of Erlangen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-583) and index.
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