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Families as They Really Are Paperback – November 17, 2009

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A fresh collection of original essays by leading scholars that focuses on how families operate in everyday life: what they are, how they work, and why they matter.

Families as They Really Are goes to the heart of the family values debate by reframing the question about families from “Are they breaking down?” to “Where are they going, how, and why?”

Essays in the book are not reprints; you won’t find them anywhere else. Each article is a new contribution to the research and theory about families, drawn from an interdisciplinary community of experts.

The four parts of Families as They Really Are focus on how we got to where we are today, what’s happening in relationships, youth in the 21st century, and the state of the gender revolution.

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"Families as They Really Are is an anthology as it really should be―an admirably comprehensive collection of provocative essays by the top scholars studying families today."
― Brian Powell, Indiana University

"Here’s a book destined to make publishers of textbooks on U.S. family studies tremble. Families as They Really Are is bursting its generous seams with lively, lucid, authoritative, original essays on every form and facet of contemporary family life. This fabulous collection presents work by a cavalcade of the field’s most preeminent and creative scholars. No textbook can possibly compete."
― Judith Stacey, author, In the Name of the Family

"Families as They Really Are is a dream edited collection--solid sociology from leading scholars yet also readable and real."
― Mary Blair-Loy, University of California, San Diego

"This incredibly useful book goes well beyond rebutting myths about family change to provide succinct and highly readable introductions to practically every controversial family issue on the public agenda today. The attention to how class, race, gender and sexuality challenge families and shape family concerns is thoughtful and balanced."
― Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin

"The story of America’s families is too often narrowed to fit a predetermined theme. Instead, this collection presents powerful, well-written new work by a diverse roundtable of social scientists, whose wealth of research expertise is matched by a common commitment to clarity without over-simplification."
― Philip Cohen, University of North Carolina

About the Author

Barbara J. Risman is professor and head of the department of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was previously Alumni Distinguished Research Professor, as well as the Founding Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at North Carolina State University. Risman is the author of Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition and over two dozen journal articles. She is also the president of the board of The Council on Contemporary Families, a national organization whose mission is to bring new research findings and clinical expertise to public attention. In 2005, Risman was honored with the Katherine Jocher Belle Boone Beard Award from the Southern Sociological Society for lifetime contributions to the study of gender. In 2013, she was elected vice president of the American Sociological Association. She is currently testing theories about whether hormonal exposure in utero influences gendered selves in adulthood. Risman strongly believes that sociologists have a responsibility both to do good research and to teach about it in the classroom and to the public at large.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Edition Unstated (November 17, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393932788
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393932782
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 1 x 9.3 inches

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- #1,020 in Sociology of Marriage & Family (Books)

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This book is great, and I wish I could afford to buy it rather than just rent it, now that I read it. I will be returning it in about a week when my term is over. Articles from a variety of authors, very current except that many of the articles were written just before gay marriage was federally legalized last year, so that big change was not mentioned in the articles yet, but future editions will I am sure. Wide variety of topics. I used this book for my Sociology of the Family class at the University of Oregon. It arrived very quickly and was in good condition. I can return the rental for free by printing the label from Amazon, which I love. This process of renting books is GREAT and saves a lot of money.

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This book is a great read. The authors all write clearly, and the articles cover a diverse range of topics. It includes extra information such as fact sheets to help give the reader a clear understanding of the concepts. It covers a wide range of family dynamics (interracial families, single-parents, LGBT families, step families, and many more) and the social, institutional, and economic issues that different families must navigate. I usually don't enjoy much non-fiction or many textbooks, but this is honestly an entertaining, inclusive, and informative read.

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So mediocre, the professor hardly touched it
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2017
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Had to buy this for one of my classes, to keep this review short, my professor ended up just e-mailing us random articles. Apparently he felt the book was not written well enough.

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Interesting!
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019
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I had this book for a sociology of family course at my university. It has very interesting short articles that cover a variety of topics. I really liked the readability and accessibility of the pieces. I would recommend this for anyone wanting to expand their view of families and the stereotypes involved in cutural perceptions.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019
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Got used for a bit came with a rip on the back

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Needed this text book for school, I love that it isn't big and bulky it's a nice size book that you can carry with you and read when you have spare time.

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Needed this text book for school, I love that it isn't big and bulky it's a nice size book that you can carry with you and read when you have spare time.

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Got this book for a sociology class and it’s definitely not a “fun” read. But it is insightful, thought-provoking and one of the better books I’ve read for school.

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