Families with Futures

Name: Families with Futures
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415885560
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Family Studies into the 21st Century, Second Edition

By Meg Wilkes Karraker and Janet R. Grochowski

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Families with Futures offers a comprehensive and contemporary examination of family studies, presenting theories, methods, and key topics through a positive and interdisciplinary lens. The book features engaging examples from everyday family life alongside current scholarship, highlighting families as resilient despite challenges.

Each chapter includes previews, key terms, and diverse learning activities that foster critical thinking. Authentic voices from scholars and practitioners provide insights into career opportunities across related fields. The latest edition introduces updated content on feminist and postmodern family theories, immigrant and transnational families, intimacy and sexuality, health policy impacts, caregiving, and family finances.
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Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and lower-level graduate students studying family studies, family ecology, and family science. Suitable for courses in family and consumer sciences, human development, psychology, and sociology.

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Noted for its interdisciplinary approach to family studies, Families with Futures provides an engaging, contemporary look at the discipline's theories, methods, essential topics, and career opportunities. Featuring strong coverage of theories and methods, readers explore family concepts and processes through a positive prism. Concepts are brought to life through striking examples from everyday family life and cutting-edge scholarship. Throughout, families are viewed as challenged but resilient.

Each chapter opens with a preview of the chapter content and concludes with key terms and varied learning activities that promote critical thinking. The activities include provocative questions and exercises, projects, and interactive web activities. Boxes feature authentic voices from scholars and practitioners (including CFLEs) from a variety of disciplines, including family studies, sociology, psychology, and more. These boxes provide a firsthand look at what it is like to work in the field. The book concludes with a glossary defining each chapter's boldfaced key terms.

Updated throughout, the new edition features new coverage of:

the latest family theories, including feminist theory and postmodernism
immigrant and transnational families in the 21st century
physiology, psychology, and sociology of intimacy and sexuality
effects of recent health and other policy decisions on families
caregiving in families, especially in later life
family finances, with an emphasis on the recent economic downturns
career opportunities in family studies

The new Instructor's Resource website features test questions, PowerPoints, chapter outlines, news bulletins of current events, hot links to helpful tools such as the NCFR's Ethical Principles and Guidelines, and more. This is an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses in family studies, family ecology, and family science offered in departments of family and consumer sciences, human development, psychology, and sociology.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415885560

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 February 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 21 Tables, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 884g

Pages: 424

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Education & Reference Janet R. Grochowski Meg Wilkes Karraker Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology

About the Author

Meg Wilkes Karraker is Professor of Sociology, Family Studies, and Women's Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She received her PhD in Sociologyafrom the University of Minnesota. In addition to co-authoring Families with Futures, Dr. Karraker is the author of the highly successful text Global Families (2008).aA former Executive Officer of Sociologists for Women in Society, and a member of the American Sociological Association's Department Resources Group which consults with sociology faculty and programs around the country, in 2005 she was honored as the Aquinas Scholars Professor of the Year. Her research examines social networks among civic, religious, and other organizations serving migrant women, children, and their families.a Dr. Karraker teaches undergraduate courses in families and family studies, sociological theory, gender, and adolescence. Janet R. Grochowski is the Marie and Robert Jackson Endowed Professor and Chair of Education at the College of Saint Benedict - Saint John's University in Minnesota.a She received two doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota, one in Family Social Science and Health Education Studies and the other in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Learning with an emphasis in resilience. Her research focuses on the family and health studies with special interest in youth and family resilience, global education, aand determinants of family health.

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