Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society
By Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann, Susan D. Stewart
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Lamanna/Riedmann/Stewart's bestselling MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 15th Edition, combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: making choices in a diverse society. Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest data and research, the text delivers an engaging narrative that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity based on race and ethnicity, gender, family forms and sexual orientations. This balanced presentation discusses a variety of theoretical perspectives, emphasizing both social structure and the importance of individual agency, choice and decision-making. Students are encouraged to question assumptions and reconcile conflicting ideas and values as they make informed choices in their own lives. This text is also available for MindTap.
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Lamanna/Riedmann/Stewart's bestselling MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 15th Edition, combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: making choices in a diverse society. Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest data and research, the text delivers an engaging narrative that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity based on race and ethnicity, gender, family forms and sexual orientations. This balanced presentation discusses a variety of theoretical perspectives, emphasizing both social structure and the importance of individual agency, choice and decision-making. Students are encouraged to question assumptions and reconcile conflicting ideas and values as they make informed choices in their own lives. This text is also available for MindTap.
Empower students to think for themselves using "As We Make Choices" features throughout the text that emphasize human agency and help students work through crucial decisions.
"A Closer Investigation of Diversity" features provide focused attention to instances of family diversity such as Youth Caregivers and Straight Parents and LGBTQIA+ Children.
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