Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars

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ISBN: 9780789020888 | 0789020882
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Copyright: 2/21/2003

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In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you'll find 40 autobiographies written by leading scholars in sociology, family studies, psychology, and child development. Their fascinating stories demonstrate how their family experiences, educational opportunities, and occupational endeavors not only shaped the disciplines they chose but also shaped the theoretical perspectives they utilized and the topics they researched.

Preface	p. xxiii
Crossing Boundaries
Crossing Boundaries: An Introduction to the Lives of Family Scholars	p. 3
A Hero's Journey: The Lifeways of a Modern Day Asclepius	p. 9
Keywords
Autobiography
Faculty research
Childhood
Career
My Autobiography	p. 41
Keywords
Autobiography
Therapist
Faculty
Childhood
Career
In Search of Resiliency in Families: Vision Quest of a Native Hawaiian Family Scholar	p. 49
Keywords
Autobiography
Faculty
Hawaiian
Administration
Childhood
Career
Life as a Sociologist	p. 85
Keywords
Autobiography
Faculty
Widowhood
Childhood
Career
My Biographical Self: A Brief Sketch	p. 105
Keywords
Autobiography
Childhood
Career
Identity
Faculty
Exploring and Defining Early Social Ecologies and Their Impact: Mothers, Fathers, Families and Cultures	p. 121
Keywords
Autobiography
Researcher
Career
Child development
Fatherhood
Overcoming Obstacles
Overcoming Obstacles-Challenges to Life and Scholarship	p. 143
Now Take My Life-Please!	p. 149
Keywords
Autobiography
Research
Scholar
Kinship
By the Book: An Academic Memoir	p. 179
Keywords
Autobiography
Family sociology
Research
Gender
Careers
Living the Literature: Keeping My Family in Family Sociology	p. 201
Keywords
Autobiography
Research
Family studies
Gender
Demography
Aspirations and Possibilities: Coming to Terms with Other People's Reality	p. 215
Keywords
Autobiography
Research
Simulation games
Social psychology
Socialization
Constructing a Life Course	p. 239
Keywords
Autobiography
Research
Life course
Gender
Aging
Following a Non-Linear Career Path: Dietetics + Child Development + Special Education = Family Studies	p. 253
Keywords
Autobiography
Researcher
Child development
Professor
Environmental and Family Influences Shaping Family Scholars
Environmental and Family Influences Shaping Family Scholars	p. 275
An Autobiographical Sketch	p. 281
Keywords
Autobiography
Family therapy
Marriage
Religion
How I Got This Way: Memoirs of a Liberal	p. 305
Keywords
Autobiography
Sexism
Family policy
Women's movement
The Autobiography of a Sex Researcher: Short Version	p. 331
Keywords
Autobiography
Research
Premarital sex
Sexuality
My Family and Me: A 20th Century Saga	p. 367
Keywords
Autobiography
Policy
Adolescence
Pregnancy
Social work
A Personal and Intellectual Journey	p. 405
Keywords
Autobiography
Family policy
Functionalism
Religion
Gender
My Life Story: Reflections of an Early Family Scholar	p. 427
Keywords
Autobiography
Marriage
Research
Religion
Handbook
Families, Social Change, and Individual Lives	p. 451
Keywords
Autobiography
Adolescent development
Employment
Longitudinal research
Socialization
Making the World Safe for Difference	p. 467
Keywords
Autobiography
Feminism
Oppression
Sexuality
Qualitative research
Intersections: Unique Career Paths to Studying Families
Intersections: Unique Career Paths to Studying Families	p. 481
Toward Understanding Families as Groups	p. 489
Keywords
Autobiography
Family worlds
Social psychology of family
Sibling relations
The Importance of Serendipity	p. 511
Keywords
Autobiography
Adolescence
Parenting
Serendipity
Puberty
Continuities and Diversities	p. 529
Keywords
Autobiography
Fatherhood
Spirituality
Community
Therapy
Coming Full Circle: From Volunteer to Professional	p. 549
Keywords
Autobiography
Family violence
Families at risk
Youth
Theory
The Social Construction of a Family Sociologist	p. 575
Keywords
Autobiography
Marital conflict
Marital power
Transition to parenthood
Fatherhood
Motherhood
Orchestrating Differences: The Making of a Family Psychologist	p. 593
Keywords
Autobiography
Identity
Narrative
Family psychology
Reflections of a Psychologist Turned Relationship/Family Scientist	p. 609
Keywords
Autobiography
Stepparents
Divorce
Remarriage
Borderline personality
Soft Ideas and Hard Methods: Family Sociologist or Social Psychologist?	p. 623
Keywords
Autobiography
Identity
Family sociology
Social psychology
The Admiral's Son with an Independent Spirit	p. 635
Keywords
Autobiography
Research
Career
Military
Childhood
Trying to Make Sense of Self: A Work in Progress	p. 661
Keywords
Autobiography
Parental behavior
Parental influence
Adolescent social competence
Parent-child relationships
Parent-adolescent relationships
Independent Spirits
Independent Spirits	p. 697
Evelyn Duvall's Life	p. 703
Keywords
Autobiography
Family life development
Marriage and family
Research
Migration into Middle Class: Social Capital at Work	p. 721
Keywords
Autobiography
Social capital
Fatherhood
Family science
How a Kid from the North Woods Got Lucky	p. 741
Keywords
Autobiography
Cross national research
Gerontology
Caregiving
Mountains, Mormonism, Marriage, and Family: Life and Career Reflections	p. 757
Keywords
Autobiography
Adolescent sexuality
Adolescent pregnancy
Adolescent parenthood
Transition to parenthood
The Way Things Were and Still Are	p. 773
Keywords
Autobiography
Family
African American
Self-concept
Racial identity
Observing Families: Their Contexts and Consequences	p. 791
Keywords
Autobiography
Family economic stress
Family processes
Children and adolescence
An Interest in Lost Persons	p. 809
Keywords
Autobiography
Theory
Family stress
Boundary ambiguity
Ambiguous loss
Threads in My Professional Career	p. 823
Keywords
Autobiography
Research
Theory construction
Family science
Life Course Reflections	p. 835
Keywords
Autobiography
Adolescence
Adolescent pregnancy
Fatherhood
Longitudinal research
Everyday Life in Family Scholarship and Family Life: Sketches and Interpretations	p. 845
Keywords
Autobiography
Family life education
International
Future of families
Index	p. 869
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