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Shifting the Center

Susan J. Ferguson

Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families, Sixth Edition is a popular anthology of readings used in Sociology of Family and of Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. Editor Susan J. Ferguson brings together carefully selected pieces written by leading family researchers and drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, including articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from several classic book-length studies. She also provides background and context to help students connect the topics in the readings to the broader themes in the study of family sociology. The table of contents follows the same scope and sequence as the leading family survey texts.  Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

GenresSocial SciencesSociologyMarriage & FamilyFamily Science

English edition · First published 1998 by SAGE Publications, Inc. (US) · ISBN 9781071847633

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Editions

7 editions

English

  • Shifting the Center · SAGE Publications, Inc. (US) · 2022 · ISBN 9781071847633 This page
  • Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families · SAGE · 2023 · ISBN 9781071847602
  • Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families · SAGE · 2022 · ISBN 9781071847640
  • Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families · SAGE · 2022 · ISBN 9781071847626
  • Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families · SAGE · 2019 · ISBN 9781506368276
  • Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families · McGraw-Hill · 2007 · ISBN 9780072825855
  • Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families · Mayfield Publishing · 1998 · ISBN 9781559347525

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