Diversity in Families

by Maxine Baca Zinn, D. Stanley Eitzen, Barbara Wells

This award-winning text treats family diversity as the norm, while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships.

Diversity in Families looks at families not as “building blocks of societies” but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, “How do families really work?” and “Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?” Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas.

576 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of good material that was well-written. Textbook needs to be updated as there is a lot of discussion about gay marriage not being legal and how that affects our current society when gay marriage has been legal since 2015.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific textbook on the sociology of families, covering different topics, like marriage, society, different types of family, and particularly interesting comments on the future of family. I thoroughly enjoyed this one!