REVEL for Families and Their Social Worlds -- Access Card

REVEL™ for Families and Their Social Worlds leads students to view the family on a macro level by examining policies in place and how those policies impact families. Author Karen Seccombe encourages students to think about families beyond their own personal experiences, and even beyond family structure in the United States. Integrated coverage of important policy considerations throughout each chapter illustrates what is currently being done, and perhaps more importantly what can be done, to strengthen families and intimate relationships.

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Karen Seccombe is a professor in the School of Community Health at Portland State University, located in Portland, Oregon. She is a proud community college graduate and appreciates the good start that that they provided for her. Karen 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. Her research focuses on poverty, welfare, access to health care, and the effects of social inequality on families. She is the author of Exploring Marriages and Families (third edition); “So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?”: Welfare Recipients’ Perspectives on the System and its Reform, (fourth edition); Families in Poverty; Just Don’t Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform, with Kim Hoffman, and Marriages and Families: Relationships in Social Context, with Rebecca L. Warner. She is a fellow with the National Council on Family Relations, and is 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 off the coast of Washington with her husband Richard, a health economist, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Natalie Rose, her twelve-year-old daughter, Olivia Lin, and her two Australian Shepherds, Bart and Stella. In her spare time she enjoys cycling, kayaking, and hanging out with her “pack.”

1. Families and the Sociological Imagination
2. Families Throughout the World: Marriage, Family, and Kinship
3. Families Throughout History
4. Sex, Gender, and Families
5. Social Stratification, Social Class, and Families
6. Race, Ethnicity, and Families
7. Courtship, Intimacy, and Partnering
8. Marriage: A Personal Relationship and Social Institution
9. Becoming a Parent
10. Raising Children
11. Families and the Work They Do
12. Aging Families
13. Violence and Abuse
14. Divorce, Repartnering, and Remarriage
15. Summing Up Families and the Sociological Imagination