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Related Books and Articles
- Sex and Gender Resources – Books, Journals, and Helpful Links
- Abbott, Elizabeth. 2011. A History of Marriage: From Same Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law, the Surprising Diversity of a Tradition. New York: Seven Stories Press.
- Berns, Roberta. 2004. Child, Family, School, Community: Socialization and Support. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
- Blossfeld, Hans-Peter. 1995. The New Role of Women: Family Formation in Modern Societies. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- Blumstein, Philip, and Pepper Schwartz. 1983. American Couples: Money, Work, Sex. New York: Morrow.
- Cheal, David. 2002. Sociology of Family Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Collins, Randall. 1985. Sociology of Marriage and the Family: Gender, Love, and Property. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.
- Coleman, Marilyn, and Lawrence H. Ganong, eds. 2004. Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Coltrane, Scott. 2004. Families and Society: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
- Collins, Randall. 1985. Sociology of Marriage and the Family: Gender, Love, and Property. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.
- Coontz, Stephanie. 2005. Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage. New York: Viking.
- Fitzpatrick, Mary Anne, and Anita L. Vangelisti, eds. 1995. Explaining Family Interactions. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Goode, William Josiah. 1963. World Revolution and Family Patterns. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.
- Goody, Jack. 1972. Domestic Groups. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
- Hill, Shirley A. 2012. Families: A Social Class Perspective. Los Angeles: SAGE/Pine Forge Press.
- Ingoldsby, Bron B., Suzanna D. Smith. 2006. Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective. 2nd ed. London: Sage.
- Krasnow, Iris. 2001. Surrendering to Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and other Imperfections. New York: Hyperion.
- LaRossa, Ralph. 1984. Family Case Studies: A Sociological Perspective. New York: Free Press.
- Lerner, K. Lee, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. 2006. Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1949. The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
- Luxton, Meg, and June Corman. 2001. Getting by in Hard Times: Gendered Labour at Home and on the Job. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Macklin, Eleanor D., and Roger Harvey Rubin. 1983. Contemporary Families and Alternative Lifestyles: Handbook on Research and Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- May, Vanessa, ed. 2011. Sociology of Personal Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Mead, Margaret, and Ken Heyman. 1965. Family. New York: Macmillan.
- Miller, R. Robin, and Sandra Lee Browning, eds. 2000. With This Ring: Divorce, Intimacy, and Cohabitation from a Multicultural Perspective. Stamford, CT: JAI Press.
- Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1871. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
- Nazio, Tiziana. 2011. Cohabitation, Family and Society. London: Routledge.
- Netting, Robert McC., Richard R. Wilk, and Eric J. Arnould. 1984. Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Newman, David M. 2009. Families: A Sociological Perspective. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
- Oakley, Ann. 1976. The Sociology of Housework. London: M. Robertson.
- O’Brien, Jodi, ed. 2009. Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Parsons, Talcott, and Robert Freed Bales. 1955. Family Socialization and Interaction Process. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
- Peterson, Gary W., and Kevin R. Bush, eds. 2013. Handbook of Marriage and the Family. 3rd ed. New York: Springer.
- Scott, Jacqueline L., Judith Treas, and Martin Richards, eds. 2004. The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- Silva, E., and C. Smart, eds. 1999. The New Family? Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Smith, William Lawrence. 1999. Families and Communes: An Examination of Nontraditional Lifestyles. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Sussman, Marvin B., Suzanne K. Steinmetz, and Gary W. Peterson, eds. 1999. Handbook of Marriage and the Family. 2nd ed. Boston: Springer.
- Therborn, G. 2004. Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900–2000. London: Routledge.
- Waite, Linda J., and Maggie Gallagher. 2000. The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially. New York: Doubleday.
- Wallace, Harvey, and Cliff Roberson. 2014. Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives. 7th ed. Boston: Pearson.
- Wallerstein, Judith S., Julia Lewis, and Sandra Blakeslee. 2000. The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 year Landmark Study. New York: Hyperion.
- Ann Oakley – Sociology of Housework: sociologytwynham.com
- A Kinship Glossary – Michael Dean Murphy – Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama: anthropology.ua.edu
- Kinship and Descent – Tim Roufs – Cultural Anthropology, University of Minnesota Duluth: umn.edu
- Kinship Residence Rules: family.jrank.org
- Introduction to Sociology/Family – Wikibooks: en.wikibooks.org
- The Nature of Kinship – Glossary of Terms: anthro.palomar.edu
Journals:
- Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
- Journal of Family and Economic Issues
- Journal of Family History: Studies in Family, Kinship, and Demography.
- Journal of Family Issues
- Journal of Family Violence
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- The Journal of Marriage and Family
- Marriage & Family Review
Related Terms
- abortion
- adelphogamy
- affinity
- agamy
- agnate
- alliance
- ambilineal descent
- ancestor
- arranged marriage
- asymmetrical exchange
- aunt
- avunculocal residence
- bifurcation
- bigamy
- bilateral descent
- bilineal descent
- bilocal residence
- birth rate
- blended family
- bride
- bride price
- brother
- career inheritance
- cenogamy
- child
- child abuse
- clan
- cognate
- cohabitation
- common-law marriage
- conjugal family
- conjugal role
- consanguine
- consanguinity
- contraception
- cousin
- covenant marriage
- cross-cousin
- daughter
- deinstitutionalization of marriage
- descendant
- descent
- descent group
- digamy
- DINK (dual income no kids)
- divorce
- divorce probability
- divorce rate
- divorced family
- domestic group
- domestic labor
- dowry
- dual-career marriage
- duolocal residence
- endogamy
- extended family
- exogamy
- familification
- family
- family life cycle
- family of orientation
- family of procreation
- family planning
- family role
- family size
- father
- fertility rate
- fictive kin
- filial piety
- genealogy
- generation
- grandfather
- grandmother
- grandparent
- gray divorce
- groom
- group marriage
- head of household
- heterogamy
- homework
- homogamy
- household
- household allocative system
- household work strategy
- husband
- hypergamy
- hypogamy
- incest
- incest taboo
- inheritance
- in-law
- instrumental role
- intercultural marriage
- intergenerational mobility
- intragenerational mobility
- isogamy
- joint conjugal-role relationship
- kinship
- levirate marriage
- life course
- lineage
- marriage
- marriage certificate
- marriage gradient
- marriage system
- matriarchal authority
- matriarchy
- matrilineal descent
- matrilocal residence
- moiety
- monandry
- monarchy
- monogamy
- mother
- neolocal residence
- nephew
- nepotism
- niece
- nonunilineal descent
- norm of legitimacy
- nuclear family
- open marriage
- open relationship
- outwork
- parallel-cousin
- parallel descent
- parent
- partible inheritance
- patriarchal authority
- patriarchy
- patrilineal descent
- patrilocal residence
- phratry
- polyamory
- polyandry
- polygamy
- polygyny
- postmarital residence
- primary group
- primogeniture
- ramage
- relationship
- relative
- remarriage
- residence
- role
- role expectation
- role set
- romantic love
- sandwich generation
- second shift
- segregated conjugal-role relationship
- serial monogamy
- sibling
- singlehood
- single-parent family
- skipped generation family
- sister
- son
- sororate marriage
- spouse
- structure
- subfamily
- symmetrical exchange
- symmetrical family
- traditional authority
- tribe
- ultimogeniture
- uncle
- unilineal descent
- unilocal rule
- widow
- wife
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