Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families
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Shifting the Center: Understanding the Contemporary Family 5e is a popular anthology of readings used in Sociology of Family and Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. It′s editor, Susan Ferguson, brings together selections written by leading family researchers and drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, including articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from number of classic book-length studies. The table of contents follows the same scope and sequence as the leading family survey texts.
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"Shifting the Center" is incredibly insightful to the various social constructions that are present in our society, and how we can be more aware of them. The authors bring new and inspiring perspectives that display family dynamics, how to navigate and understand them, and how to view families from a sociological lens. This book also has lots of great sources for research purposes.
This book is well-organized with clearly labeled headings, and consists of a series sociological studies and articles that consider different aspects of family dynamics. Almost every article has an introductory section explaining an overview of the topics discussed and the overall arguments that unfold.
I personally did not find anything negative worth noting about this textbook.
