Handbook of Marriage and the Family
Başlık:
Handbook of Marriage and the Family
ISBN:
9781475753677
Edition:
2nd ed. 1999.
Yayın Bilgileri:
New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
XXXIV, 821 p. online resource.
Contents:
Introduction: Perspectives on Families as We Approach the Twenty-First Century-Challenges for Future Handbook Authors -- 1. Historical Analysis of the Family -- 2. Demography and Families -- 3. Cross-Cultural and U.S. Kinship -- 4. Comparative Perspectives -- 5. Ethnic Variation in the Family: The Elusive Trend toward Convergence -- 6. The Future of Families -- 7. Classical Social Theory and Family Studies: The Triumph of Reactionary Thought in Contemporary Family Studies -- 8. Postmodernism and Family Theory -- 9. Methodological Pluralism and Qualitative Family Research -- 10. Quantitative Methodology for Studying Families -- 11. Measurement in Family Studies -- 12. Contemporary Family Patterns and Relationships -- 13. Socializing Children and Parents in Families -- 14. Adolescence in Contemporary Families -- 15. Family Relations in Adulthood -- 16. Gender and Family Relationships -- 17. Marital Dissolution: Divorce, Separation, Annulment, and Widowhood -- 18. Families and Religions -- 19. Economics and the Family -- 20. American Families and American Law -- 21. Families and Work -- 22. Exploring Family and Health Relationships: The Role of Genetics, Environment, and Culture -- 23. Strengthening Families: Policy Issues for the Twenty-First Century -- 24. Family Dynamics: An Essay on Conflict and Power -- 25. Family Communication -- 26. Family Abuse and Violence -- 27. Human Sexuality -- 28. Theories and Techniques of Marital and Family Therapy.
Abstract:
To know where we are going as scholars, educators, and practitioners in the field of marriage and family life, we first need to know where we have been. A perusal of early texts on marriage and family life provides some thought-provoking insights into the accuracy of the saying "what goes around, comes around. " It is interesting to note who has been considered to be in a position to provide information on marriage and family life. Included in the eclectic collection of texts we reviewed were ministers whose focus was on spirituality, doctors who emphasized medical aspects of child and adult health, and public health profes sionals and home economists concerned with fighting disease, who emphasized cleanliness, order, fighting germs, and eliminating rodents and insects. There are also philosophers who drew from ancient texts when discussing family life and a count who assembled a group of German intellectual elites to address various topics. An insightful essay of this type is by Marta Karlweis (1926), in which she notes: There is no other fetish that society holds to so firmly as the conception "woman," with all its usual associations of infantilism and dependence . . . . The child requires protection, is a minor and consequently a serf, but above all it possesses no spiritual existence. Neither doctorates or other distinctions nor the right to vote have as yet been able to dispel this sweet idea of the childishness of woman. which man cherishes. (p.
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Dil:
English