Gender, Marriage, and Families: From the Individual to the Social

New Edition Now Available!Gender, Marriage, and Families is a unique textbook that can be used as a supplemental reader and workbook in various different courses, such as gender, marriage and families, introduction to sociology, social problems, culture and diversity, norms and deviance, and interdisciplinary studies.Gender, Marriage, and Families is recommended as supplemental reading not only for gender and marriage and families courses, but for intro and social problems as well because it guides students from individual perspectives toward more social ones in an innovative way. Each Chapter begins with a fictional case study that serves as an illustration for a pressing and/or common phenomenon in the field of gender, marriage, and families. Introducing sociological issues through fiction leads to more accessible content for students and an interdisciplinary approach. Each fictional case study is followed by a brief sociological analysis of the topic, statistics, theories, discussion questions, sample research assignments and activities, and links to pertinent websites. Applying this approach prompts students to make connections between the individual and social and also helps them realize through the sociological perspective that individual examples are not necessarily generalizable. Students' creativity, research, critical thinking, and synthesizing skills are also developed through the use of this book. Gender, Marriage, and Families endorses a cross-cultural approach, and it combines gender, marriage, and families in a single book, both of which adding to its original, valuable features.