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Conley, Dalton. The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become. New York: Random House, Inc., 2009. Analyzes how the inequality in families—children ending up in different social classes—is related to the larger social forces that envelop the family: gender expectations, the cost of education, divorce, early loss of a parent, geographic mobility, religious and sexual orientation, trauma, and even luck and accidents.

Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage. New York: Penguin 2006. This analysis of how the fundamental orientations to marriage have changed contains enlightening excerpts from the past.

Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, and Arne L. Kalleberg, eds. Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life. New York: Russell Sage, 2006. Explores changes in the time people spend at work and the consequences of those changes for individuals and families.

McAdoo, Harriet Pipes, ed. Black Families, 4th ed. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 2007. The authors of these 23 articles analyze gender relations, fam- ily patters, religion, social policy, and even funerary practices of African Americans.

Stone, Pamela. Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. A study of high- achieving, highly educated, privileged women who quit their fast-paced professional work in order to become stay-at-home mothers—their deci- sion, the transition, and the consequences.

Sullivan, Andrew, ed. Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con. New York: Random House, Inc., 2009. In this even-handed anthology, the editor brings to- gether arguments and opinions concerning same-sex marriage.

Wallace, Harvey. Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives, 5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2008. This overview of violence, from stalking to sexual harassment to sexual violence in the workplace, includes case studies.

Journals Family Relations, The History of the Family, International Journal of Sociol- ogy of the Family, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Journal of Divorce, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and Marriage and Family Review publish articles on almost every aspect of marriage and family life.

Sutton, Mark Q. An Introduction to Native North America, 3rd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2007. An overview of the cultures of Native Americans, with an emphasis on the effects of the European invasion.

White, Michael J., and Jennifer E. Glick. Achieving Anew: How New Im- migrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. This examination of immigrant life at school, at work, and in communities shows that recent immigrants and their chil- dren are not forming an underclass but are making substantial progress in entering the mainstream.

Williams, Philip J., Timothy Steigenga, and Manual A. Vasquez, eds. A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida’s New Destinations. Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2009. The authors analyze the challenges, resources, and strategies of immigrants as they form community and establish identity. Wilson, William Julius. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. The author analyzes both cultural and structural factors that maintain poverty in the inner city. Includes policy recommendations.

Zeitz, Joshua M. White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Examines the sometimes contentious, fractious, and fragile coalition that became politically and culturally significant in this area of the United States.

Chapter 10 Marriage and Family Agger, Ben, and Beth Anne Shelton. Fast Families, Virtual Children: A Crit- ical Sociology of Families and Schooling. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publish- ers, 2007. The authors analyze how technology has changed the way families conduct their lives, raise their children, and try to maintain a boundary between work and home.

Amato, Paul R., Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, and Stacy J. Rogers. Alone Together: How Marriage in American Is Changing. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. The authors’ controversial thesis is that the sig- nificance of marriage is declining, that marriage is becoming one lifestyle choice among many.

Bianchi, Suzanne M., John P. Robinson, and Melissa A. Milkie. Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. New York: Russell Sage, 2007. Based on time-diaries, the authors conclude that despite their greater participation in the paid labor force U.S. mothers spend just as much time with their children as the previous generation of women did.

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