Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America

Zusatztext "In the early 1960s, most children grew up in two-parent families with a single breadwinner. Today, an increasing percentage of children grow up in affluent families where both parents are college graduates working in high-prestige occupations; at the other end, an increasing percentage of children grow up in poverty in single-mother families with a less-educated, unstably-employed, never-married mother and siblings who have different fathers. In this volume, the nation's leading family demographers thoughtfully analyze the causes and consequences of the increased complexity and increased inequality of family types over the last 50 years." Informationen zum Autor Marcia J. Carlson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paula England is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Klappentext This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality. Zusammenfassung This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.

Product details

• Authors: Marcia (EDT)/ England Carlson, Marcia J. England Carlson
• Assisted by: Marcia Carlson (Editor), Marcia J Carlson (Editor), Marcia J. Carlson (Editor), Paula England (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.2011
• EAN: 9780804770897
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7089-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality (
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories