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Sociology of marriage and the family: gender, love and property

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Main Authors:	Collins, Randall (Author), Coltrane, Scott (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago Nelson-Hall 1991
Edition:	3. ed.
Subjects:	Famille - États-Unis Famille - Études transculturelles Gezinssociologie Huwelijk Éducation à la vie familiale - États-Unis Families > Cross-cultural studies Families > United States Family life education > United States Familiensoziologie USA
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Physical Description:	XXVIII, 651 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0830412409

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adam_text	Contents About the Authors ii Preface xxv Three Ways to Use This Book xxvii CHAPTER 1 Explaining the Family 2 FEATURE 1.1: Sex versus Gender: What s the Difference? 4 The Family in Current Controversy 5 Stratification: Inequality Inside and Outside the Family FEATURE 1.2: How to Avoid Talking about Social Class 7 The Dual Income Family Becomes the Center of Contemporary Stratification The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class Equality and Inequality Explaining Gender Stratification in the Family 13 FEATURE 1.3: The Economic Position of Men and Women 16 Explanation by Comparison FEATURE 1.4: Some Changing Family Principles 22 Some Major Themes 23 The Uses of Family Sociology 32 Social and Political Issues Our Personal Life Experience Careers in Family Related Professions A Note on Sociological versus Psychological Approaches to the Family 34 FEATURE 1.5: Some Professional Careers Using Family Sociology 34 Summary 35 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 37 3 — Societies: An Overview 81 Hunting and Gathering Primitive Horticulture Advanced Horticulture and Plow Culture Agrarian States Industrial Societies Some Theories of Gender Inequality 86 Economic Theories FEATURE 3.1: The Sex Ratio Question 93 FEATURE 3.2: Polygyny in West Africa 96 Political Theories of the Family Kinship Politics 105 The Politics of Virginity Patriarchal Domination in the Agrarian States 110 FEATURE 3.3: The Politics of Circumcision Ritual 110 FEATURE 3.4: Medieval versus Modern Houses 115 The Era of Maximal Male Domination Countervailing Forces for Female Status Summary 118 CHAPTER 5 The Twentieth Century 154 What Is Happening to the Modern Family? 155 Sex, Marriage, and Divorce Nonmarital Childbirth and Zero Population Growth Change, Not Disappearance New Variants of Family Structure The Diversification of the Family The Causes of Long Run Changes 163 Why the Anomalous 1950s? FEATURE 5.1: Nazi Germany and Stalin s Russia: Twentieth Century Totalitarianism and the Family 166 Working Class Affluence and the Move to the Suburbs A Comparison: The Roaring Twenties and the Rebellious Sixties FEATURE 5.2: F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Jazz Age 172 The Second Wave of the Women s Movement FEATURE 5.3: Breaking Down the Barriers of Gender Segregation 179 Conflict over Family Change Summary 184 Stratification and Wealth 190 FEATURE 6.1: What Is an Old Family ? 191 Has Inequality Been Increasing? How Families Make Up the Income Hierarchy Families in Poverty Family Events Cause Income Fluctuation The Mixture of Social Class Styles in America 198 Are White Collar Jobs Middle Class? Husbands and Wives Occupations and Mixed Class Marriages Working Class Families 203 Early Marriages FEATURE 6.2: A Working Class Woman s Image of Marriage 204 The Early Marriage Crisis The Routine of Later Marriage Conflicts Between Male and Female Cultures Working Class Culture and the Family Social Density and Cosmopolitanism FEATURE 6.3: Elaborated and Restricted Codes 214 Upper Middle Class Families 218 Upper Middle Class Cultural Traits FEATURE 6.4: Women of the Upper Class 220 Life Stages of a Corporate Career Family Dual Career Families 228 Summary 229 Black Families 233 The Myth of the Black Family Social Class Differences Racial Discrimination and Its Paradoxical Consequences The Question of Black Matriarchy FEATURE 7.1: Sharing Networks among Lower Class Black Women 240 The Case of the Black Underclass Explanations for Marital Instability FEATURE 7.2: The Scarcity of Marriageable Black Men 244 Poverty and Black Family Form Hispanic Families 250 Hispanic Subgroups Mexican American Families Pressures for Change in Chicano Families Hispanic Families in the Future FEATURE 7.3: Chicano Family Myths Have Mixed Impacts 260 Asian American Families 262 Summary 267 Part 3: Women and Men CHAPTER 8 Love and the Marriage Market 272 What Is Love? 275 Feminist Theories of Love FEATURE 8.1: Three Love Poems 275 FEATURE 8.2: Love and Marriage 278 Social Psychological Theories of Love FEATURE 8.3: Measuring Love and Liking 280 Love as High Intensity Ritual Love and Hate Where and When Does Love Happen? Who Loves More, Men or Women? FEATURE 8.4: Freud on Love 288 The Marriage Market 291 Who Marries Whom? Market Resources and Opportunities FEATURE 8.5: The Influence of Physical Attractiveness 296 The Winepress of Love FEATURE 8.6: Coupling and Breaking Up in the Commune 302 Trade Offs on the Market FEATURE 8.7: Love Advice from the Kama Sutra 306 Summary 310 Sex as an Interaction Ritual 316 FEATURE 9.1: What Happens in Sexual Intercourse? 318 Premarital Sex: A Modern Erotic Revolution? 321 Words versus Actions The Accuracy of Statistics about Sex Recent Trends in Premarital Sex FEATURE 9.2: A Famous Literary Love Scene 328 Causes of the Sexual Revolution The Realities of Sex Marital Sex as a Social Tie 334 FEATURE 9.3: Sexually Transmitted Disease 335 FEATURE 9.4: AIDS 336 Female Orgasm Sexual Satisfaction and Marital Equality Can Sexual Satisfaction Improve During Marriage? Explaining by Comparison: Extramarital Sex 346 Adulterous Affairs: Emotional and Erotic FEATURE 9.5: Husbands, Wives, Gays, and Lesbians: The Influence of Gender Roles on Sex 349 Do Swinging Marriages Survive? The Fragility of Sexual Communes Concluding Reflections on the Significance of Sex 45A CHAPTER 10 Family Realities: Housework, Power, and Marital Satisfaction 362 Who Gets More Out of Marriage? 363 Marriage and the Law 366 Home as a Workplace 367 FEATURE 10.1: Inequities in Past Marriage Laws 368 FEATURE 10.2: The Disappearing Servant 370 Housework: Who Does What? How Much Has Changed? Feelings about Housework Women as Household Managers Sharing the Strain Justifying the Division Social Class Differences The Struggle over Sharing Housework Household Labor and the Reproduction of the Labor Force Economic or Gender Exploitation? FEATURE 10.3: The Paradox of Labor Saving Appliances 384 Family Power 386 FEATURE 10.4: Who Has the Power? 387 Occupation Income Education Social Participation versus Isolation Children Women s Outside Sources of Power Some Domestic Sources of Women s Power Happiness and Unhappiness 394 FEATURE 10.5: Measuring Marital Adjustment 396 The Pressure of Children Economic Success Single and Dual Career Marriages FEATURE 10.6: Housewives in the Mental Hospital 404 Family Quarrels 406 Summary 407 CHAPTER 11 Family Violence 410 Violence in Society 411 FEATURE 11.1: Rape Myth Acceptance Scale 414 Spouse Abuse 415 FEATURE 11.2: Measuring Family Violence: The Conflict Tactics Scale 416 Battered Wives, Battered Husbands, or Mutual Combat? Rape in Marriage Social Class Differences When Do Battering Incidents Happen? Causes of Marital Violence Intervention and Treatment Child Abuse 432 The Causes of Child Battering Abuse of Young Children and Teenagers Incest Elder Abuse 440 Factors Associated with Elder Abuse Common Features of Family Abuse 443 Conclusion: When Conflict Turns into Family Violence 444 Shifts in Family Power Stress Surrounding Family Life Traditional Authoritarian Gender Roles The Combination of Violence Producing Conditions Summary 448 How Much Divorce? 451 When Does Divorce Happen? Social Class and Divorce Age and Divorce Race and Religion Causes of Divorce 460 Sex and Divorce Economics and Divorce FEATURE 12.1: Dealing with the Legal Entanglements of Divorce 462 FEATURE 12.2: Marvin versus Marvin: A Divorce Settlement Without a Marriage 465 Single Life after Divorce 465 The Postmarital Economic Strain A New Social Life FEATURE 12.3: Divorce and Downward Mobility 471 Children and Divorce 473 Reacting to the Change Long Term Impacts Child Custody Joint Custody: What Actually Happens? Visitation Support Payments Effects of Custody Arrangements Remarriage 482 Who Remarries Whom? Life in Second Marriages Conclusion Summary 488 CHAPTER 12 Divorce and Remarriage 450 Part 4: Parents and Children CHAPTER 13 Contraception, Childbearing, and the Birth Experience 492 Fertility Control in Cross Cultural and Historical Contexts 493 The Birth Rate Today Childless Families Nonmarital Childbirth 499 Pregnant Brides The Nonmarital Childbirth Explosion Premarital Contraceptive Use 502 Marital Contraceptive Use 504 Abortion 505 FEATURE 13.1: Two Centuries of Abortion Battles 506 Health Hazards of Abortion The Abortion Controversy Early versus Late Motherhood 514 Medical Risks of Delayed Birth The New Reproductive Technologies 517 FEATURE 13.2: Test Tube Babies 518 Surrogate Motherhood 519 The Medicalization of Childbirth 520 FEATURE 13.3: Birth Practices of Some Nonindustrial Peoples 521 Questioning the Medical Model FEATURE 13.4: The Cesarean Explosion 524 Natural Childbirth 525 Home Births The Birth Experience 529 FEATURE 13.5: A Sensual View of Childbirth 532 Parent Child Bonding 532 The Transition to Parenthood 535 Does Childbirth Promote Traditional Gender Stratification? Fathers ParticiDation in Infant Care Coping with the Stress Summary CHAPTER 14 Caring for Children: New Dynamics of Mothering and Fathering 544 Childhood in Historical Perspective 545 FEATURE 14.1: The Discovery of Childhood 546 From Economic Asset to Sentimental Object Individual versus Collective Patterns of Child Care FEATURE 14.2: Child Rearing in Nonindustrial Societies 550 Current Idealized Images of Parents and Children FEATURE 14.3: Why Do Women Mother? 552 Parenting Today 554 Who Takes Care of the Children? Maternal Employment and the Need for Child Care The Need for Child Care Is Increasing Working Mothers: Does a Child Need a Full Time Mother? The Special Strains of Single Parent Families Discovering Fathers 564 New Patterns of Fathering Why Do Some Parents Share Child Care? FEATURE 14.4: Can Men Mother? 569 Growing Up 571 Developmental Theories The Struggle over Love and Control FEATURE 14.5: Some Nondestructive Ways of Controlling Children 582 The Social Context of Development Some Social Class Differences in Child Rearing Styles Placing Children in the Social Mobility Game Creativity FEATURE 14.6: IQ: How Much Is Inherited? How Much Difference Does It Make? 592 Summary 595 CHAPTER 15 Life Transitions 600 Life Course Variations 601 FEATURE 15.1: The Seven Ages of Man 602 Transition Periods and Rituals 604 The Teenage Years: Transition to Adulthood 606 Attaining Adulthood 607 Adulthood and Moral Codes The Midlife Transition 613 The Empty Nest Syndrome FEATURE 15.2: Menstruation and Menopause 616 Menopause FEATURE 15.3: Stereotyping Older Women s Biological Aging 619 The Late Life Transition 620 Gender Trends in Longevity FEATURE 15.4: The Twenty First Century: An Aging Population at Zero Growth Rate 621 The Impact of Recent Demographic Trends How Much Contact with Relatives? Death and the Family 629 Summary 631 CHAPTER 16 The Future of the Family 634 The Main Trends: Will They Continue? 635 Love and Marriage Are Still Sexual and Emotional Property The Economics of Careers Are Changing the Marriage Market The Dual Income Family Is the Basis of a New Form of Class Stratification Social Causes of Divorce May Continue to Rise Family Conflict: Peaking and Then Declining Changing Economic and Emotional Motivations for Child Rearing Ethnic Family Patterns Are Applications of Sociological Processes A Key Process: Gender Stratification and Class Stratification 649 Glossary A l References B l Name Index C l Subject Index D l
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