Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective » (2nd Edition)

Bron Ingoldsby is Associate Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia. A leader in the area of cross-cultural family research, he is the author of numerous professional publications, including (with Raeann Hamon) Mate Selection Across Cultures. His current work focuses on family change among the Hutterian Brethren, and marriage in Latin America. He is a popular instructor of Cross Cultural Family classes at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He was honored as the 2002 recipient of the Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies by the National Council on Family Relations. He has served twice on the NCFR board as the chair of the International and Religion & Family Life sections.

Suzanna Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida. She has a Ph.D. in Child and Family Development and a Master's Degree in Social Work; and is a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE). In addition to teaching, Dr. Smith develops Extension programs for families through the Florida Cooperative Extension Service. Her research has focused on difficult economic transitions and the impacts on women and their families, particularly in rural and natural resource dependent communities. She also has experience in human services, offering resources and support to children, women, families, and the elderly in need. Her international work has included research and training programs in Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Haiti, and Korea, as well as coursework for internationalstudents and faculty.

Twenty-two academics and independent scholars, most from the U.S., contribute 20 chapters to a textbook that explores the diversity of the world's families. The second edition incorporates updated information throughout the text on recent trends in family life, and includes new chapters on the Middle East and Pacific regions and new material on social inequality as manifested in gender stratification, oppression of certain ethnic and cultural groups, and poverty. For advanced undergraduate and graduate students in sociology and family studies courses. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Part I: Foundations of Comparative Family Studies
1. Global Families - Suzanna Smith
2. Comparative Family Research Methodology - Gary Lee, Nancy Greenwood
3. The History of the Euro-Western Family - Bron Ingoldsby
Part 1 Exercise: Comparative Family Research Study
Part II: Family Structure
4. Family Origin and Universality - Bron Ingoldsby
5. Patterns of Kinship and Residence - Max Stanton
6. Marital Structure - Bron Ingoldsby
7. Religious Utopias and Family Structure - Bron Ingoldsby
Part 2 Exercise: The Ethnic Genogram
Part III: Family Development
8. Mate Selection and Marriage - Bron Ingoldsby
9. Parenting Practices Worldwide - Judith Myers-Walls, Karen Myers-Bowman, German Posada
10. International Divorce - Patrick McKenry, Sharon Price
11. Diversity in International Aging Families - Richard Miller, William Meredith
Part 3 Exercise: Mate Selection
Part IV: International Family Variation
12. Asian and Latino Immigrant Families - Walter Kawamoto, Rueben Anguiano
13. Families in the Islamic Middle East - Bahira Sherif-Trask
14. Families in sub-Saharan Africa - Stephan Wilson, Lucy Ngige
15. Families in Latin America - Bron Ingoldsby
16. Families in Japan - Colleen Murray, Naoko Kimura
Part 4 Exercise: The Story of Jose and Lana
Part V: Social Inequality in the Contemporary World
17. Native American Families - Tamara Cheshire
18. Women in the Two-Thirds World - Sandra Russo, Suzanna Smith
19. Household Division of Labor in Industrial Societies - Linda Haas
20. Poverty and Family Policy in a Global Context - Mark Rank, Gautam Yadama
Part 5 Exercise: The AriasFamily