Public and Private Families: A Reader - Softcover

Cherlin, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072319925 ISBN 13: 9780072319927

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

Public and Private Families: A Reader, Second Editionexamines the family through two lenses -- the familiar private family in which we live most of our personal lives, and the public family in which we, as adults, deal with broader societal issues such as raising the next generation and the care of the elderly. Consequently the selected readings look both at intimate personal concerns, such as whether to marry, as well as societal concerns, such as governmental policies that affect families. The author introduces each chapter, providing helpful lead-ins to the readings that follow. The 32 readings in this edition are comprised of a well-balanced mix of highly accessible selections from the popular press as well as articles from scholarly journals.This reader serves as an excellent companion to other texts in the sociology of marriage and the family and as a useful source of information on its own. It is an excellent supplement to Cherlin’s text, Public and Private Families: An Introduction. Its 16 chapters, which address contemporary issues such as the history of the family, welfare and welfare reform, divorce and stepparenting are keyed to the 16 chapters in Cherlin's text.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Thirteen of the 32 readings are new to this edition, including Alan Wolfe's The Culture War Within, Mary Patillo-McCoy's The Black Middle Class, Katherine S. Newman's Family Values, and Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter's Sexual Desire and Gender.
Written especially for this reader (and not published anywhere else) Cherlin's essay on the effects of welfare reform on families has been revised and updated to include recent developments.
A mix of 32 readings from both the popular press and academic journals address a wide range of topics including deadbeat dads, gay marriage, domestic violence, and generational relations.
Many of the readings are cross-disciplinary'for example, psychology and law'making this text ideal for family courses in Human development, Family Studies, and Psychology.
Many pieces describe the stories of real families, such as Susan Sheehan's eye opening report on the struggles of a working class family, while others reflect debate and controversy within sociology about the future of the family. Still others are drawn from current classics of the gender studies approach to the sociology of the family.

About the Author:

Andrew J. Cherlin is Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He received a B.S. from Yale University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976. He is the author of the McGraw-Hill textbook, Public and Private Families: An Introduction. His other books include Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage (revised and enlarged edition, 1992), Divided Families: What Happens to Children when Parents Part (with Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., 1991), The Changing American Family and Public Policy (1988), and The New American Grandparent: A Place in the Family, A Life Apart (with Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., 1986). In 1989-1990 he was chair of the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In 1999 he was president of the Population Association of America, the scholarly organization for demographic research. In 2005, Professor Cherlin was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He recived the Distinguished Career Award in 2003 from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2001, he received the Olivia S. Nordberg Award for Excellence in Writing in the Population Sciences; and in 1999, he was President of the Population Association of America. He was also received a Merit Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for his research on the effects of family structure onchildren. His recent articles include "The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage," in the Journal of Marriage and Family; "The Influence of Physical and Sexual Abuse on Marriage and Cohabitation," in the American Sociological Review; and "American Marriage in the Early Twenty-First Century," in The Future of Children. He also has written many articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Newsweek, and other periodicals. He has been interviewed on ABC News Nightline, the Today Show, network evening news programs, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and other news programs and documentaries.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072319925
• ISBN 13: 9780072319927
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416