Contemporary Family Issues

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  Current research in sociology

  Published on the occasion of the VIIIth World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, August 18–24, 1974

  • Margaret S. Archer, 1974, Toronto> World Congress of Sociology World Congress of Sociology <8(Authors)
  • 2018(Publication Date)
  • De Gruyter Mouton

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  The meaning of modernity, its use and abuse, definitional prob-lems, models of collaboration were but a few of the concerns of the Cross-National Research Studies on the Family which had its genesis in dis-cussions at the ISA meetings in Evian in 1966. A section of this paper will cover the major approaches, processes and outcomes of these ISA-sponsored Studies (Sussman and Associates, 1967). A fourth and final analysis will be of the viability of the family life cycle conceptualization in family research, most recently analyzed in the meetings of the XHIth International Seminar on Family Research. This conceptual and analytical framework is generic to theories of human development and evolutionary change (Havighurst, 1953; Duvall, 1971). 30 Family sociology For unknown reasons this approach - associated with generational change and continuity from a psycho-social perspective, and physical and mental change from a biological/aging perspective - has never been critically examined or used extensively in family research (Hill, 1970; Rodgers, 1964; Shanas, Townsend Wedderburn, Friis, Milhj, Stehouwer, 1968). An overview at this time will provide guidelines for the 'best use' of this conceptualization in family research. 1. DEFINITIONS, MEANING OF 'FAMILY' AND THE FIT OF RESEARCH DESIGNS AND METHODOLOGIES The major thesis is that it has taken us a long time to recognize that families are differentially defined and perceived. In fact, in grasping the fruitful ways of looking at families we would expect that such analyses would make it easier to fit appropriate designs, methodologies and techniques for studying behavior of family members as well as the unit itself. Definition and meaning are interrelated but are separate entities. One can describe observations or feelings and provide interpretation yet not be able to provide precise definitions.

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  Sociology

  The Essentials

  • Margaret L. Andersen; Howard F. Taylor, Margaret Andersen, Howard Taylor(Authors)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Cengage Learning EMEA

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  Regardless of their form, families now face new challenges, such as managing the demands of family plus work or struggling to meet family needs when work disappears. Many families feel that they are under siege by changes in society that are dramatically altering all family experiences. Some of these changes are immedi-ate, such as the loss of work in economically hard times or the strain on families from a family member’s illness. Other changes Families and Religion ● ● Understand the features that define different kinship systems ● ● Compare and contrast sociological theories of families ● ● Relate the characteristics that define different types of contemporary family experiences ● ● Refute some of the myths about contemporary marriage and divorce ● ● Be able to identify social structures that affect family violence ● ● Analyze current social policies that affect family experience ● ● Define how religion is a social institution ● ● Relate the different measures of religiosity ● ● Compare and contrast sociological theories of religion ● ● Identify the sources of religious diversity ● ● Define the different organizational structures of religion ● ● Explain how religion is related to social change and vice versa in this chapter, you will learn to: Defining the Family 309 Sociological Theory and Families 312 Diversity among Contemporary American Families 314 Marriage and Divorce 317 Family Violence 321 Changing Families in a Changing Society 323 Families and Social Policy 324 Defining Religion 326 The Significance of Religion in the United States 328 Sociological Theories of Religion 330 Diversity and Religious Belief 332 Religious Organizations 334 Religion and Social Change 336 Chapter Summary 336 Copyright 2017 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s).

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  Sociology

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  • Margaret Andersen, Margaret Andersen, Howard Taylor(Authors)
  • 2019(Publication Date)
  • Cengage Learning EMEA

    (Publisher)

  Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce. www.census.gov Copyright 2020 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. CHAPTER 13 Families and Religion 327 roles; population changes (such as aging and immigration); and even things like the increased reliance on technology, which can alter communication patterns in families. Many view the changes taking place in families as positive. Women have new options and greater independence. Fathers are discovering that there can be great pleasure in domestic and child-care responsibilities. Change, however, also brings difficulties: balancing the demands of family and employment, coping with the interpersonal conflicts caused by changing expectations, and striving to make ends meet in families without sufficient financial resources. These changes bring important questions to the sociological study of families. Family affairs are believed to be private, but as an institution, the family is very much part of the public agenda. Many people believe that “family breakdown” causes society’s greatest problems—thus the intense national discussion around so-called family values. Public policies shape family life directly and indirectly, and family life is now being openly negotiated in political arenas, corporate boardrooms, and courtrooms, as well as in the bedrooms, kitchens, and “family” rooms of individual households. Defining the Family The family is a social institution, that is, an established social system that emerges, changes, and persists over time.

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