Social Change and Family Values: American Families in Social and Historical Perspective

by Betty Farrell

Assumptions about the family of the past pervade the expectations we bring to our personal interactions and shape the way we think about and study the family as a social institution. Most often, undergraduate courses in family sociology have a "marriage and family" focus, which emphasizes the dynamics of interpersonal relations and contemporary family roles. Similarly, sociological concerns focus on the present and the future of family life, with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081331545X
• ISBN13: 9780813315454
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages