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Informationen zum Autor Natalia Sarkisian is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Her interests include family sociology, race, gender, and class, aging and the life course, and quantitative methods. Her research, published in Social Forces , American Sociological Review , the Journal of Marriage and Family , Contexts , and Family Relations , examines variation in kin and community ties by race/ethnicity, gender, age, and marital status, and explores the structural circumstances and cultural values that may account for this variation. Naomi Gerstel is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her most recent articles have examined the ways class and gender shape work hours, effects of class, race, marriage, and women’s employment on families and caregiving, labor union policies, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. Her co-authored and co-edited books include Commuter Marriage , Families at Work , Families and Work , and Public Sociology . Zusammenfassung Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family—with its exclusion of the extended family—is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Widespread Focus on Nuclear Families 2. The Realities of Family Life: Extended Families and Gender 3. Race and Family Organizations 4. The Power of Social Class: Structure, Culture, and Families as Strategies for Survival 5. Mariage and Families 6. Social Policies and Families
