The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Unprecedented social changes are taking place that pose new challenges for families. The Wiley–Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families brings together a collection of original essays that investigate partnering , parenting and families against the backdrop of rapid social change brought about by globalization, contested cultural values, severe economic shocks, new technologies, and widespread rethinking of welfare state protection for families today.  Written by a team of leading researchers from five continents, these newly–commissioned essays maintain a focus on family inequality and diversity over the life course while offering fresh insights into new family forms and intimate relationships. Extensively reworked since its publication over a decade ago, the volume spans a broad range of topics including changes to partnering and parenting in North American, European, Asian and, Latin American families; inter–generational relationships; immigrant and transnational families; cohabitation and divorce; same–sex families; and many more. Authoritative and timely, The Wiley–Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families offers illuminating insights into the complex forces that are transforming family life in our globalized world.

Contributors Preface GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES 1 Göran Therborn Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 2 Trude Lappegård Changing European Families 3 Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 4 Yen–Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui–Chung Allen Li Family Change in East Asia 5 Irma Arriagada Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families DIVERSITY, INEQUALITY AND IMMIGRATION 6 Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll, and Nathaniel Burke Same–Sex Families 7 Rys Farthing Family Poverty 8Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding Transnational Families 9 Alison Shaw Ethnic Diversity in the UK: Family Forms and Conjugality 10 Karen D. Pyke Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the U.S. FAMILY FORMS AND FAMILY INFLUENCES 11 Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock Cohabitation:  An Assessment 12 Eric D. Widmer Partnerships, Family and Personal Configurations 13 Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer, and Kristi Williams Health and Families 14 Christopher Ellison and Xiaohe Xu Religion and Families FAMILY PROCESSES 15 Juho Härkönen Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, Consequences 16 Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines, and Murray A. Straus Partner Violence in World Perspective 17 Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis Money Management, Gender, and Households 18 Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVES 19 Matthijs Kalmijn Adult Intergenerational Relationships 20 Jacqueline Scott Children’s Families—A Child–Centered Perspective 21 Kevin Roy Fathers and Fatherhood 22 Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam, and Melanie N.G. Jackson Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course FAMILIES IN CONTEXT 23 Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle–Rushton Public Policy and Families 24 Hadas Mandel Family Policy and Wives′ Economic Independence 25 Martin Richards Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies and Family Life 26 Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott Sex, Family, and Social Change 27 Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck–Gernsheim The Global Chaos of Love: Towards a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families

Judith Treas is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University of California, Irvine. Her latest book, edited with Sonja Drobniè, is Dividing the Domestic: Women, Men and Household Work in Cross–National Perspective (2010). Jacqueline Scott is Professor of Empirical Sociology in the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies, and a Fellow of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. Dr Scott is the editor of Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints (with Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette, 2010) and Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges (with Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi, 2009).  Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Ressearch, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.  His recent books  include Reproductive Donation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics (edited with Guido Pennings and John B. Appleby, 2012) and We are Family?Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins and Identitie (edited with Tabitha Freeman, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, and Susanna Graham, 2014).