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Changing Families: Relationships in Context |
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About The Book
The interdisciplinary nature of this textbook makes it suitable for courses on the sociology of families, family studies, and the psychology of families. Students reading this text will be exposed to a greater variety of theoretical perspectives (including behaviour genetics) and a more comprehensive picture of the diversity of modern family life than in other textbooks. The narrative is enriched by quotes, case studies, and summaries from Professor Ambert's own fieldwork.
Broad themes such as social inequalities, gender roles, and the effective community link the contents together in an integrative framework. Several of the chapters are unique, innovative, and contain material not generally found in other textbooks. For example, sections on families’ neighbourhood and housing condition as well as their children’s school environment; religion, religiosity, and family life; siblings; ex-spouses after divorce; military families; families living in condos, on the one hand, and on farms, on the other; online dating; online infidelities as well as other very contemporary issues. An entire chapter is devoted to exploring the effects of the changing economy on human development in families.
Changing families: relationships in context (2nd Edition). Toronto, Ontario: Pearson Education Canada, 2012, 506 pp.
ISBN-10: 0205832024
ISBN-13: 9780205832026
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| The Effect of Children On Parents |
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About The Book:
Recognize the hidden costs and rewards of childrearing!
The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition,
thoughtfully explores the interactions by which
parents and children change, develop, and sometimes
affect each other negatively. Everyone knows that
parents influence their children, but few people
consider the ways in which children affect their
parents. The love, satisfaction, and fulfillment
children offer can change parents’lives.
So can the stress, worry, and financial drain.
The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition,
honestly confronts these long-neglected issues
of family dynamics. Taking a unique interdisciplinary
approach, this book describes in great detail,
with jargon-free language the various aspects
of children’s effects on their parents.
This second edition contains an abundance of fresh
information, including nine entirely new chapters
that deal with such complex topics as the effects
on parents of children with emotional, behavioral,
and delinquency problems.
The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition,
asks and answers essential questions on the parent-child
dynamic, including:
- what role does genetic inheritance play in
children’s responses to their parents?
- how do peers influence children and through
them, their parents?
- what happens to parents when children are
difficult or have emotional problems?
- what special considerations apply to minority
or adoptive parents?
- how do adult childrem affect their aging
parents?
- how does society support or undermine parents?
- what roadblocks prevent parents from being
as effective as they would like to be?
The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition,
takes a brave look at this often ignored area
of family dynamics, giving a richer, more complex,
and ultimately more healing view of how humans
interact in families. Professors, students, and
experts in the fields of child development, family
studies, and sociology of childhood and family
will find this book a sophisticated tool in their
desire to better understand and help families
and children.
The Effect of Children On Parents. New York:
The Haworth Press, 1992, 308 pp. Second edition
(entirely rewritten), 2001, 239 pp.
YUL - HQ 755.8 A47 2001 |
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| The Web of Poverty |
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About The Book:
The most interdisciplinary, integrated text
on poverty, The Web of Poverty: Psychosocial Perspectives
gives you a full understanding of poverty and
its consequences, equipping you to affect social
change. This unique book examines the social and
personal causes of poverty, focusing on the consequences
of poverty at the neighborhood and school levels
and on families, children, and youth. Ethnic and
racial minorities are considered throughout the
text, and a chapter is devoted to the interface
of poverty, segregation, and discrimination.
The Web of Poverty helps you clearly see the
effects of poverty by considering the cultural
and social contexts of victims lives. In doing
so, it fills a gap in the literature caused by
books that overlook personal issues and data related
to individual experiences. Chapters address contentious
and sensitive issues within a critical psychosocial
perspective that informs concepts such as the
subculture of poverty, social pathologies, and
the “overclass.” Many of the topics
and perspectives you’ll explore in its pages
are rarely considered together in one volume.
Specifically, you’ll read about:
- the plight of impoverished mothers and their
children
- a comparison of the poverty of disadvantaged
African Americans and poor white Americans
- health disadvantages of the poor
- the effects of poverty on school systems and
the quality of education students receive
- the factors of age, race, and ethnicity that
can lead to poverty
- a refutation of the notion of genetic inferiority
of the poor
Poverty is often the cause of other social ills
such as delinquency, which can destroy the social
fabric of neighborhoods and limit opportunities
to escape impoverished situations. The Web of
Poverty will help you accurately see poverty as
part of this “big picture.” It contains
material from the fields of sociology, developmental
psychology, family studies, economics, delinquency,
ethnic studies, health, and behavior genetics.
This amalgamation gives you a thorough psychosocial
perspective.
The Web of Poverty. Psychosocial Perspectives.
New York: The Haworth Press, 1998, 296 pp.
YUL - HV 4042 A5 A53 1998 |
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| Other Books |
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Parents,Children and Adolescents: Interactive Relationships
and Development in Context. New York: The Haworth Press,
1997, 396 pp.
Ex-Spouses and New Spouses. A Study of Relationships. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1989.
Perspectives on Social Problems. Second edition
revised and expanded. Toronto: Academic Press, 1983; with
R.L. Henshel. (First edition 1973.)
Divorce in Canada. Toronto: Academic Press of Canada,
1980.
Sex Structure. Second edition revised and expanded. Toronto: Longman of Canada, 1976. (First edition 1973.)
The Forgotten Ones: A Sociological Study of Anglo and
Chicano Retardates. Austin: The University of Texas Press,
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| Edited Books |
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Parents and Adolescents in Changing Families (with
David H. Demo). Minneapolis, MN: National Council on
Family Relations, 1995, 306 pp.
Sociological Studies of Children. Vol.7 (An issue on
theory), Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1995, 261 pp. |
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| Chapters in Books |
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“The effect of children on parents and on their socialization.”
In N. Mandell and A. Duffy (Eds.), Canadian Families,
2nd ed., 2000, pp. 48-77.
"L'effet de la délinquance et de ses séquelles
sur les parents: Impact du sexe du parent et de l'adolescent."
In D. Adam (Ed.), In Femmes francophones et pluralisme
en milieu minoritaire. Ottawa: Presses de l'Université
d'Ottawa, 1996, pp. 89-98.
"Perspectives internationales sur la sociologie des
enfances." In R.B. Dandurand et al. (Eds.), Enfances,
Québec: Institut quebécois de recherche sur
la culture, 1996.
"A critical perspective on the research on parents and
adolescents: Implications for research, intervention, and
policy." In D.H. Demo and A.-M. Ambert (Eds.), Parents
and Adolescents in Changing Families. Minneapolis: National
Council on Family Relations, 1995, pp. 291-306.
"Introduction" (with David H. Demo). In D.H. Demo
and A.-M. Ambert (Eds.), Parents and Adolescents in Changing
Families, Minneapolis: National Council on Family Relations,
1995, pp. 1-8.
"Sociological theorizing on children: Concluding thoughts."
In N. Mandell & A.-M. Ambert (Eds.), Sociological
Studies of Children, 1995, Vol. 7, pp. 177- 205.
“Towards a theory of peer abuse.” In A.-M. Ambert
and N. Mandell (Eds.), Sociological Studies of Child,
1995, vol. 7, pp. 177-206
“Age au divorce ou au deces d’un parent et desavantage
biopsychosocial a l’adolescence”, with Jean-Francois
Saucier. In Colette Chiland et J. Gerald Young. Nouvelles
Approches de la Sante Mentale. Presses Universitaires
de France, 1990.
“Child effect on parents: an interactional model.”
In Marriage and Family: Recent Trends in Canada.
2nd ed. M. Baker (Ed.). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 1990.
“Marital dissolution: structural and ideological changes
in Marriage and Family: Recent Trends in Canada.
2nd ed. M. Baker (Ed.). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 1990.
“Starting Over.” In Rosalie Burnett (Ed.). Couples
and Intimacy. New York: Andromeda, 1989.
“Marriage Dissolution”, with Maureen Baker, in Family Bonds and Gender Divisions, ed. by Bonnie
Fox, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 1988.
“Sociology of sociology: The place of children in North
American sociology”, in Sociological Studies of
Child Development, Vol. 1, P. & P. Adler (Eds.).
Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, 1986.
“Children and their custodial parents”, in The
Single-parent Family, B. Schlesinger (Eds.). Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1985.
“Marriage dissolution and remarriage: structural and
ideological changes”, in Marriage and Family: Recent
Trends in Canada. M. Baker (Eds.). Toronto: McGraw-Hill
Ryerson, 1984.
“Sociometric tests as a measure of rehabilitation success
in two halfway houses for the mentally retarded”, in Group Processes and Rehabilitation of the Retarded,
edited by W.L. Dickerson. Austin: The University of Texas,
1971. |
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| Articles in Refereed Journals |
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"The effect of male delinquency on mothers and fathers:
A heuristic study." Invited and refereed paper, Sociological
Inquiry, Fall, 1999, pp. 621-640.
"Que sait-on de l'expérience existentielle des
parents des jeunes contrevenants?" (What do we know of
the existential experience of young offenders' parents?) Criminologie,
November, 1995, pp. 230-245.
"Understanding and evaluating qualitative research,"
(senior author), co-authored with Daniel Detzner, Patricia
Adler, and Peter Adler, invited and refereed paper for a volume
on methods in family research for the Journal of Marriage
and the Family, November 1995, 45, pp. 879-893.
"An international perspective on parenting: Social change
and social constructs," Journal of Marriage and the
Family, 1994, 44 (invited and referee lead paper, August
issue for the International Year of the Family), pp. 1119-1127.
"A qualitative study of peer abuse and its effects:
Theoretical and empirical implications," Journal
of Marriage and the Family, 1994, 44: pp. 119-130.
“Adaptation des adolescents au deces ou au divorce
des parent”. Sante Mentale au Quebec, co-authored
with Jean Francois Saucier, 1988, 13: 69-78.
“Relationship with ex-affines after divorce.” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 50, August, 1988.
“Relationship between ex-spouses: the dyadic perspective.” Journal of Social and Personal Relations, July, 1988.
“Adolescents’ overt religiosity and parents’
marital status,” International Journal of Sociology,
co-authored with Jean-Francois Saucier, June, 1987.
“Adolescents’ perception of self and of immediate
environment by parental marital status: A controlled study,” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, co-authored with
Jean-Francois Saucier, Summer, 1986.
“The stepparenting experience: live-in and visiting
stepchildren,” Journal of Marriage and the Family,
48, November 1986.
“Ex-spouses’ perception of the effect of separation
on children’s behavior”, Parenting Studies,
1986.
“The effect of divorce on women’s attitude toward
feminism”, Sociological Focus, 1985.
“Longitudinal changes in children’s behavior
toward custodial parents”, Journal of Marriage and
the Family, 46, 1984.
“Adolescents’ academic success and aspirations
by parental marital status”, Canadian Review of
Sociology and Anthropology, 21 (1), 1984, co-authored
with Jean-Francois Saucier.
“Adolescents’ self-reported physical health and
parental marital status”, Canadian Journal of Public
Health, 74, 1983, co-authored with Jean-Francois Saucier.
“Adolescents’ self-reported mental health and
parents’ marital status”, Psychiatry,
1983, co-authored with Jean-Francois Saucier.
“Parental marital status and adolescents’ optimism
about their future”, Journal of Youth and Adolescence,
11, 1983, co-authored with Jean-Francois Saucier.
“Adolescents’ perception of their parents and
parents’ marital status”, Journal of Social
Psychology, 120, 1983, co-authored with Jean-Francois
Saucier.
“Parental marital status and adolescents’ health-risk
behavior”, Adolescence, 18, 1983, co-authored
with Jean-Francois Saucier.
“Differences in remarriage behavior between financially
secure women and financially insecure women”, Journal
of Divorce, 6, 1983.
“Drug use in separated/divorced persons: gender, parental
status, and socio-economic status”, Social Science
and Medicine, 16, 1982.
“Differences in children’s behavior toward custodial
mothers and custodial fathers’, Journal of Marriage
and the Family, 44, 1982.
“Swinging: a study of decision making in marriage”, American Journal of Sociology, 1973. Subsequently
reprinted in (1) Changing Women in a Changing Society,
J. Huber (Ed.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1973; this book has been translated into several languages;
(2) The Canadian Family in Comparative Perspective,
L.E. Larson (Ed.),
Prentice Hall, 1975; (3) Families in Transition,
P. Stein (Ed.), Addison-Wesley, 1977.
Questions ideologiques et sociologiques sur le travail remunere
de la femme”, Sociologie et Societes, 6, 1974.
(Invited paper. Subsequently published in English as “Ideological
and sociological questions about women in the working world”, International Journal of Sociology, 5.
“The relationship between values and behavior: a developmental
hypothesis”, Child Development, 42, 1971.
“Black studies programs: promise and pitfalls” Journal of Negro Education, 1969, with R.L. Henshel. |
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