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A review of Joshua Gamson's Modern Families.

"Im Mittelpunkt der Ausführungen werden Partnerhaushalte stehen, d.h. hier Haushalte von verheiratet oder nicht-ehelich zusammenlebenden Partnern. Die Einkommenssituation von Alleinerziehenden wird, soweit es die Fallzahlen ermöglichen, in einem eigenen Absatz erörtert. Es geht in den Ausführungen im wesentlichen um einen Vergleich der Einkommenslage bedingt durch die Struktur der Haushalte nach Alter der Befragten, nach Berufsposition, Erwerbssituation, Lebensform im Partner- und Kindbezug und nach Zahl der Kinder im Haushalt. Die Beschreibung der Einkommenssituation erfolgt deshalb mit den Indikatoren des Haushaltsnettoeinkommens und des nach Haushaltsmitgliedern gewichteten Haushaltsnettoeinkommens bzw. des Pro-Kopf-Einkommens." (Autorenreferat)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- List of Credits -- PART ONE CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Describing Variation: The Family Developmental Cycle -- 3 Explaining Family Variation -- PART TWO THE B-CLUSTER: NOMADIC FORAGING BANDS -- Prelude: Children in an Mbuti Camp -- 4 Band Societies: The Family and the Larger Community -- 5 The Developmental Cycle of the Family in Band Societies -- PART THREE THE A-CLUSTER: FAMILY SYSTEMS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- Prelude: Sebei Elders Discuss Cattle Claims -- 6 The Logic of African Social Organization -- 7 Family Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 8 Conceptualizing the Structure of African Families -- 9 African Developmental Cycles: Part One -- 10 African Developmental Cycles: Part Two -- PART FOUR THE O-CLUSTER: ISLANDS OF MICRONESIA AND POLYNESIA -- Prelude: An Argument Over Teen Sexuality -- 11 The Nature of Oceanic Societies -- 12 Making a Living and Making a Name on an Island -- 13 Oceanic Family Structure -- PART FIVE THE N-CLUSTER: SOCIETIES OF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA -- Prelude: Growing Up in a Kwakiutl House -- 14 The Logic of Social Organization on the Northwest Coast -- 15 Family Activities in Northwest Coast Societies -- 16 Family Structure on the Northwest Coast -- PART SIX THE C-CLUSTER: PREMODERN, COMPLEX SOCIETIES -- Prelude: Dowry Negotiations in Lahore -- 17 Introduction to the Family in C-Cluster Societies -- 18 A Tour of C-Cluster Family Systems: Part One -- 19 A Tour of C-Cluster Family Systems: Part Two -- 20 Explaining Variation in C-Cluster Systems -- PART SEVEN THE M-CLUSTER: FAMILIES IN MODERN SOCIETY -- Prelude: The Debate About the Family -- 21 Modernity and the Embattled Family -- 22 What Families Do and Don't Do Anymore -- 23 Modern Family Process

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues - childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social networking, viral marketing - that put pressure on families as the social, economic and regulatory environments of consumption change