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EUROSPAN GROUP Family Matters 3/e by Barabara A Mitchell
Now in its third edition, Family Matters offers an enriched discussion on a variety of substantive factors affecting Canadian families across a life course. Adopting a feminist sociological approach throughout, this popular textbook explores family structures and functions through a critical, gendered lens and individually examines how issues related to gender, social change, social policy, and poverty influence family life.A leading name in sociology, Barbara A. Mitchell takes a closer look at LAT partnerships and polyamorous relationships, and features additional material on skipped generation families, disability in families, participatory research methods, parent-child relationships, and the impact of communication technologies. Approachable and concise, Family Matters is the perfect resource for students enrolled in half-year, introductory, or advanced level courses in family sociology and gender studies.Features:examines a diversity of family backgrounds, including refugee, Indigenous, immigrant, and LGBTQ familiesdraws on updated research, statistics, and cultural referencesincludes supplementary learning questions, lists of suggested readings, and links to related websites List of Boxes, Tables, and FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNew to this EditionPart I: Understanding Continuity, Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change In FamiliesChapter 1: Family Matters: An Introduction to the Sociology of Canadian FamiliesChapter 2: Family Theory and Methods: Windows on Families and Family ResearchChapter 3: Canadian Families in Historical, Cross-Cultural and Global ContextChapter 4:First Families: Aboriginal Family Life in Pre-Post Confederate CanadaChapter 5: Immigration and the Changing Ethnic Mosaic of Canadian FamiliesChapter 6: More Than a Labour of Love: Gender and the Cult of DomesticityPart II: The Ties that Bind: Family Formation and Generational ConnectionsChapter 7: Close Relations in Youth and Young Adulthood: Establishing Partnerships and Starting FamiliesChapter 8: Families and Children in the Early Years: Childhood, Socialization, and Shifting Ideologies of ParenthoodChapter 9: All Our Families: Diversity, Challenge, and Continuity in Non-Conforming Coupled RelationshipsChapter 10: Family Dissolution and the Brady Bunch: Separation, Divorce, and RemarriageChapter 11: Families in the Middle and the Launching of Children: Home-leaving, Boomerang Kids, and the Empty NestChapter 12: Aging Families and the Sunset Years: Caregiving and Support across the GenerationsPart III: Families on the Fault Line and Social Policy IssuesChapter 13: In Sickness and in Health: Families Facing Health Challenges and the Creation of Healthy LifestylesChapter 14: Trying to Make Ends Meet: Family Poverty, Living on the Margins, and Financial StruggleChapter 15: Families in Crisis: Family Violence, Abuse, and StressChapter 16: Families and the State: Family Policy in an Era of Globalization and Economic UncertaintyIndex