Revel for Exploring Marriages and Families -- Combo Access Card

An integrated approach to the historical, cultural, social, and political influences upon marriages and families
Revel™ Exploring Marriages and Families helps students gain a thorough understanding of the social context in which they live and the relevance of social science to their lives. Author Karen Seccombe captures the compelling relationship and family issues of our time via a fresh perspective – one that places individual relationships in their social context so that students can more fully understand why they make the choices they do. The Third Edition has been updated to reflect the latest data and scholarship and includes new content that reflects the contemporary state of marriages and families to boost relevance to students’ lives.

Revel is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience – for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.
 
NOTE: This Revel Combo Access pack includes a Revel access code plus a loose-leaf print reference (delivered by mail) to complement your Revel experience. In addition to this access code, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

Karen Seccombe is a proud community college graduate (Go Citrus!) and a first-generation college student. She is now a professor in the School of Public Health at Portland State University, located in Portland, Oregon. She received her B.A. in sociology at California State University, Chico; her M.S.W. in health and social welfare policy from the University of Washington; and her Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University. Karen is the author of Social Problems, with W. Kornblum and J. Julian (Pearson); “So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?”: Welfare Recipients’ Perspectives on the System and Its Reform (Pearson); Families and Their Social Worlds (Pearson); Just Don’t Get Sick: Access to Healthcare in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform, with K. A. Hoffman (Rutgers University Press); and Families in Poverty (Pearson). She is a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations, and a member of the American Sociological Association and the Pacific Sociological Association, where she has held elective offices.

Karen lives in the San Juan Islands, located off the northwest coast of Washington with her husband Richard, a health economist, her sixteen-year-old daughter, Natalie Rose, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Olivia Lin, and her two Australian Shepherds, Stella and Bart. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, biking, international travel, and hanging out with her pack. In spring 2017, she taught in the Semester at Sea program, and, along with 550 college students, traveled to Japan, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana, and Morocco.

PART I: FAMILIES AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: KEY CONCEPTS
1. Why Study Families and Other Close Relationships?
2. Social Status: Sex, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class

PART II: THE FOUNDATIONS OF RELATIONSHIPS
3. Building Relationships
4. Love and Loving Relationships
5. Sexual Identity, Behavior, and Relationships
6. Communication, Conflict, and Power in Our Relationships
7. Marriage

PART III: PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
8. Thinking about Parenthood
9. Raising Children
10. Families and the Work They Do

PART IV: FAMILY STRENGTHS, CHALLENGES, AND REORGANIZATION
11. Family Stress and Crisis: Violence among Intimates
12. The Process of Divorce
13. Family Life, Partnering, and Remarriage after Divorce
14. Families in Middle and Later Life
15. Looking Ahead: Helping Families Flourish