![]() Sadly, most of those probably reading reviews on this book are students who will be required to buy it. If a grandmother lives with the family, who cares? Why is an entire book dedicated to this? Why delve into it? If two straight people have a kid, good for them. If two gay people have a kid, good for them. Live and let live I say, and quit analyzing it. What did this book teach me? Well, I now know such important things as the "developmental family life cycle theory", which pays close attention to changes in families over time and attempts to explain family life in terms of a process that unfolds over the life course of families? Huh? Really, who cares? The text is obsessed with trying to explain things, and give names and theories and terms to what I just refer to as "life". Why do I need to read a chapter on Living Single, Living With Others? Or Dating, Coupling, and Mate Selection. I just fail to see the worth of the text. Or mix it up and do both, but it's a purposeful action in this book to put female before male. Or he, then she, since that's alphabetical. ![]() " "She or he sometimes may feel." Why not go s/he, that seems pretty acceptable to me. I do dislike how whenever they are speaking about people from both sexes, the purposely always list she before he. Yes, the book is peppered with feminist propaganda, but I won't base my disdain for the book due to that. “The text is accurate and solid on the issues it covers.” The style here listing myths and facts really stands out in the text. “I really like the ‘Myths about Violence and Abuse’ section. Why are they so scarce anymore? My students like and need the over-leaning that takes place in a study guide gifted students can ignore them, so everyone wins.”ĭr. “Hurray for finding a student study guide available. Heidi Goar, Inver Hills Community College I am comfortable pushing introductory students beyond ‘safe’ levels, so the edgy examples and analogies are appropriate and may even generate some authentic interest for students.” “The examples used in regard to sex and sexuality were particularly good. “An aspect of the Schwartz and Scott text that I find pleasing is that they bring in issues of gender and minorities throughout their text rather than placing this material solely in a single chapter (although there is a chapter devoted to gender, which is excellent!).” When trying to do this, often students think that you’re giving them too much ‘opinion.’ I like that this text includes those debating topics because this makes my task much easier in terms of bringing up controversial issues.” “I love to challenge my students to think outside the box. I also applaud the way race and diversity is a theme through the book.” “The authors have gone to a tremendous amount of work with the incorporation of so many research studies. “I found the book very interesting as it includes detail and research not commonly found in the texts I use.” I don’t teach down to my students, so I appreciate it when authors don’t write down to them either.” “This text is written at an appropriate college level. “I couldn’t be happier with the development and comprehensiveness of the chapters and topics in this text.” ![]() For this reason, I have loyally used this text since beginning teaching in 1999.”ĭr. “This text covers all the topics necessary in the course for which it is designed. The background of the information given and the diversity of the groups covered should help the professor engage the student in areas many texts have failed or are scared to cover.” Dan Muhwezi, Butler County Community College A student with no background will definitely benefit from the depth and breadth of the material presented here.”ĭr. “The text is next to none in terms of the great length the authors have made to incorporate sociological concepts. ![]()
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