Marriages & Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society Author: Mary Ann Lamanna Agnes Riedmann | Language: English | ISBN:
1111726434 | Format: PDF
Marriages & Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society Description
This bestselling marriage and family text combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a unique theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: "Making choices in a diverse society." The text achieves an excellent balance between the sociological and ecological or family systems theoretical perspectives, while including extensive coverage of family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. The authors use warmth, humor, and an engaging presentation to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and marriage and family alternatives.
- Loose Leaf: 656 pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 11 edition (December 22, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1111726434
- ISBN-13: 978-1111726430
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This book is truly terrible. Sure, it contains a few tidbits of information that may be interesting. However, you have to put up with it's horrible formatting and blatant promotion of the Cengagenow service to get to that. This book is honestly difficult to read because of how badly it's formatted. There are hundreds of pages with extraneous insert blurbs, a few of which take up most of the page, leaving only two or three rows for the actual text underneath it. The only thing this book is 'good' for (and I use that term more than a bit sarcastically) is for passing a class that requires it.
I really enjoyed "Choices in Relationships: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family" by David Knox and Caroline Schacht. I needed it previously as a textbook for a class, but I enjoyed it so much that I still read through it time and again. It provides extremely useful and in depth information about the same sorts of topics this book attempts to cover. If you have any choice in the matter, I highly suggest you get the Knox/Schacht book over this piece of trash.
By Silver
This textbook is a useful textbook that is well written and informative. It is a very wordy textbook though, with a few diagrams spaced out throughout the text. It is a useful textbook though because it discusses many of the different issues that are pertinent to the field of sociology of the family, and discusses how many of these issues can be seen in society today.
By collegebookworm2015
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