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Marriages, Families, and Relationships

Making Choices in a Diverse Society

By: Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Riedmann,Susan D. Stewart

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Marriages, Families, and Relationships

Making Choices in a Diverse Society

By: Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Riedmann,Susan D. Stewart

Lamanna/Riedmann/Stewart's bestselling MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 14th edition, emphasizes a theme that is especially relevant in our modern and global world: making choices in a diverse society. Combining various theoretical perspectives with relevant examples, the text will help you understand how people are influenced by the society around them, how social conditions change in ways that affect family life, the interplay between families and the larger society, and the family-related choices that individuals make throughout adulthood. You'll gain insightful perspectives on different ethnic traditions and family forms. You will also be empowered to question assumptions and reconcile conflicting ideas and values as you make informed choices in your own life. In addition, MindTap digital learning solution helps you learn on your own terms.

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Cengage Learning

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0357368746

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9780357368749

Marriages and Families

By: David Treybig,Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann

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Marriages and Families

By: David Treybig,Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann

ItUs important for students to realize their individual actions and choices are influenced by broader social forces. By using a decision making theme within a sociological framework, Lamanna and Riedman provide the solid research and theoretical base that students need, along with the practical examination of personal choices and decision making that students want.

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0534187404

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9780534187408

Marriages, Families, and Relationships

Making Choices in a Diverse Society

By: Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann,Ann Strahm

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Making Choices in a Diverse Society

By: Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann,Ann Strahm

This bestselling marriage and family text combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a unique theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: "Making choices in a diverse society." The text achieves an excellent balance between the sociological and ecological or family systems theoretical perspectives, while including extensive coverage of family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. The authors use warmth, humor, and an engaging presentation to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and marriage and family alternatives.

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1111521182

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9781111521189

Marriages and Families

By: Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann

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Marriages and Families

By: Mary Ann Lamanna,Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann

Lamanna and Riedmann use a decision making theme within a framework of sociological research and theory to give students the tools they need to make decisions about their relationships, marriages, and families. This framework helps students understand that their individual actions and choices are influenced by broader social forces, while helping them examine their personal choices and goals. The authors affirm the diversity of families and relationships today, providing a context for any student, whatever his or her age, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0534505554

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9780534505554

Family and the Welfare State in Europe

Intergenerational Relations in Ageing Societies

By: Agnes Blome,Wolfgang Keck,Jens Alber

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Family and the Welfare State in Europe

Intergenerational Relations in Ageing Societies

By: Agnes Blome,Wolfgang Keck,Jens Alber

The book offers a genuine and innovative research direction that explores the black box of intergenerational relations and in particular how institutions mediate families ability to offer financial resources as well as provide care services to their members. Antonis Roumpakis, Journal of Social Policy . . . the book is an impressive effort, from which both students and academics will benefit, as this reader indeed has. Svein Olav Daatland, Ageing and Society Most European countries are experiencing a dramatic demographic shift. A combination of falling birthrates and rising life expectancy leads to a significant aging of societies. The authors analyze how the state and the family shape generational living conditions in Germany, France, Italy and Sweden and how age-specific attitudes toward welfare policy are affected. One finding is that there is little evidence of conflict between the generations. The book is a very important contribution to a better understanding of the character of new challenges for European welfare states. Stein Kuhnle, The University of Bergen, Norway and the Hertie School of Governance, Germany This insightful book explores the role of both the family and the state in shaping the living conditions of the young and old in Europe. It provides a comparative theoretical and empirical analysis of age-related policies and welfare arrangements in Germany, France, Italy and Sweden. By combining institutional data on changes in public policies with longitudinal micro-data on living arrangements and informal support patterns in families, the authors are able to demonstrate the huge diversity in the organization of intergenerational relations and the changes that have occurred since the early 1990s. Age-specific differences in attitudes towards current social policy issues are also explored. The key finding is that intergenerational bonds of solidarity remain robust, meaning predictions of a potential conflict between the generations are vastly exaggerated. Providing up-to-date information on the perception of public policies and generational conflicts in different welfare states, this book is a must read for researchers in the field of comparative social policy and intergenerational relations. It will also benefit academics in sociology and political science, as well as policy-makers and consultants.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1849801878

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9781849801874

Marriages and Families

By: Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann,Mary Ann Lamanna,Adie Nelson

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Marriages and Families

By: Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann,Mary Ann Lamanna,Adie Nelson

This new adaptation of the best-selling American text is contemporary, covering such current topics as non-traditional families; Comprehensive, with all material being deemed essential by reviewers, and Balanced, with excellent historical and theoretical coverage of Canadian families. Using the theme of choice, the text helps students learn with weblinks at end of each chapter, 'As We Make Choices' boxes, and 'A Closer Look At Diversity' sections.

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Nelson Thomson Learning

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0176168877

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9780176168872

Science that Colonizes

A Critique of Fertility Studies in Africa

By: Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann

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Science that Colonizes

A Critique of Fertility Studies in Africa

By: Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann

In this book, Agnes Riedmann introduces and explores "World System Demography," an original concept that refers to demography as a global, bureaucratically administered science that is controlled by the elite within First World nations. For her case, Riedmann analyzes data collected in Nigeria, the country with a fertility rate above the African average. Funded by a U.S. organization, three large-scale research projects were carried out among the Yoruba in the early 1970s. Riedmann maintains that World System Demography, exemplified by such studies, is an agent of First World-directed cultural imperialism. She argues that the authority of First World scientists to penetrate the Third World for research has its roots in the idea of a "right to invade," which originated as far back as the fifteenth century with colonizing Europeans." "The author demonstrates that World System Demography is an extension of the Western - primarily American - family planning/birth control movement. In addition, she critically analyzes how, largely as a result of the wealth and aggressiveness of this movement, even the assumedly value-neutral practice of collecting data ultimately promotes contraception. She provides examples of how research questions can impose cultural values and suggest behaviors not indigenous to the native culture. Using the reports of interviewers, Riedmann illustrates how Western assumptions conflict with those of the research population; she also explores the ways in which this population resists participation in the project." "Shedding new light on the salient question of persistent high fertility rates in Africa, Science That Colonizes ends with a discussion of policy considerations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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1566390427

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Marriages, Families, and Relationships

Marriages, Families, and Relationships

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Marriages and Families

Marriages and Families

Family and the Welfare State in Europe

Family and the Welfare State in Europe

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Science that Colonizes

Science that Colonizes

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