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Global Families (Contemporary Family Perspectives (CFP)) Second Edition
Author(s): Meg Wilkes Karraker (Author), Susan J. Ferguson
- Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication Date: 10 July 2012
- Edition: Second
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1412998638
- ISBN-13: 9781412998635
Book Description
The globalization of politics, economics, culture, and other social systems are creating challenges and opportunities for families throughout the world. Yet, sociologists and other scholars who study families are often unfamiliar with the theories and research on globalization.
Global Families provides family scholars with a methodical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of globalization. It then examines the ways in which globalization impinges on families throughout the world in four major areas: demographic transitions, world-wide culture, international violence, and transnational employment. It concludes with a discussion of supra-national policies and other efforts to position families in this global landscape.
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About the Author
Meg Wilkes Karraker, Ph.D.,is Professor of Sociology, Family Studies, and Women’s Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She teaches courses on families, gender, and sociological theory. Her research focuses on the impact of social structure on life chances in communities, including religious and civil networks around migration and family values and family business virtues. She is the author (with Janet R. Grochowski) of Families with Futures: A Survey of Family Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2nd edition forthcoming 2012). Karraker is immediate Past-president of Alpha Kappa Delta, the international sociology honor society and is a member of the American Sociological Association’s Department Resources Group.
