Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families;

Shifting the Center: Understanding the Contemporary Family  5e is a popular anthology of readings used in Sociology of Family and Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. It′s editor, Susan Ferguson, brings together selections written by leading family researchers and drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, including articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from number of classic book-length studies. The table of contents follows the same scope and sequence as the leading family survey texts.