The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change

Learn the story behind the data about today’s families

Assigned at over 300 schools, The Family was an instant success due to Philip Cohen’s conversational style and robust scholarship. By encouraging sociological thinking about contemporary families, The Family helps students become savvy consumers of media-reported research. In the Second Edition, Cohen examines trends in family life such as gender fluidity, sexuality in later life, and technology’s transformation of romantic relationships. The book is further strengthened by expanded media resources including award-winning InQuizitive activities.

• Families as They Really Are (Second Edition)
• Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics (NULL)
• Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later
• The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
• Introduction to Human Services: Policy and Practice, An (8th Edition)
• Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence
• Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions (Second Edition)
• Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
• Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology
• Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action