SYO 4100 - Family Trends

Concepts of Family -- Marriage, Partnership & Divorce -- Parenting & Children -- Family Life & Family Relationships -- Work & Gender Roles -- Health, Housing & Family Planning -- The Family in Literature & Media -- The Family in Times of Conflict & Change

Marriage -- Quality of marriage & family life -- Divorce & separation -- Children -- Sexual attitudes & behaviors & contraceptive use -- Living arrangements & kinship ties -- Working women, wives, & mothers -- Demographic & economic context -- Child care

"An incisive, multidisciplinary look at the American family over the past 200 years, written by respected scholars and researchers. -- Focuses on the family constellation throughout history: nuclear families, extended families, single-parent families, homosexual parents, stepfamilies, slave families, homeless families, and more"

"This five-volume set presents the full range of family issues that confront modern society in Canada & the United States. The 452 alphabetically arranged essays define terms, discuss controversies, & cover topics such as historical trends & events, health concerns, laws, court cases, people, & organizations."

Volumes for each decade, 1900-1909 through 1990-1999, with chapters about: - World Events - The Arts - Business & the Economy - Education - Fashion - Government & Politics - Law & Justice - Lifestyles & Social Trends - Media - Medicine & Health - Religion - Science & Technology - Sports

A cross-disciplinary source for a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. Covers the first decade of the 21st Century and includes key events and social history.
Ch 1. Arts and entertainment -- ch 2. Business and the economy -- ch 3. Education -- ch 4. Government, politics, and law -- ch 5. Lifestyles and social trends -- ch 6. Medicine and health -- ch 7. Science and technology -- ch 8. Sports

"Erroneous government-generated "data" is more problematic than it would appear. This book demonstrates how women's history has consistently been hidden and distorted by 200 years of official government statistics. * Provides new ways of thinking about the history of women in the United States * Examines the systems used to gather and publish federal statistics, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and biases * Demonstrates the need for applying critical thinking skills even when examining assumedly trustworthy statistics from official sources * Reveals how details of women's lives in the United States have been erased or disguised in data that is considered authoritative and reliable"

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"Huls' two-volume bibliography provides easy subject access to some 7,000 documents on social and employment issues, spanning nearly two centuries. Entries covering the published reports of Congress, agencies, councils, and commissions are annotated and organized chronologically within topical chapters, thereby providing a chronological record of governmental investigations, actions, and policies on broad issues."

Labor Department, Special Report No 1, Feb 1, 1889
including appendix relating to marriage and divorce in certain countries in Europe [with data by cause of divorce, presence of children, religion, city, county, State, and European country; some comparisons to population; and selected detail by sex]

The Family in Historical Perspective -- The Family & Other Social Institutions -- Familial Roles & Relationships -- Individual Family Histories

"The sitcom made its first appearance in January of 1949 with the introduction of television's first family, The Goldbergs. Since the advent of the sitcom, televised fictional families have reflected the changing structure of American society. The sitcom emphasized first the lives of suburban, working class European immigrants and gradually expanded to encompass the multicultural urban phenomena of the 1960s. The roles of men and women in the fictional family have similarly been adjusted to depict women's movement into the workforce and the changing identity of the father. As censorship laws became less stringent, sitcom viewers also began to be exposed to the realities of changing family dynamics in America, watching as the traditional nuclear family diverged to include single-parent, two-father, and two-mother households. From the cultural upheaval of the mid-century to the "reality" craze of the new millennium, television's families have mimicked and even influenced the changing values of American society. An introduction to the cultural trends and social developments of each decade is provided prior to a summary of the significant series of that decade."

NOTE: Online access is limited to 6 simultaneous users.
Population -- Vital statistics & health -- Migration -- Labor -- National income & wealth -- Consumer income & expenditures -- Social statistics -- Land, water & climate -- Agriculture -- Forestry & fisheries -- Minerals -- Construction & housing -- Manufacturing -- Transportation -- Communications -- Energy -- Distribution & services -- International transactions & foreign commerce -- Business enterprise -- Productivity & technological development -- Financial markets & institutions -- Government

"This 3-vol. set presents the social & cultural history of childhood from antiquity to the present. Children & Childhood examines this history through articles on education, parenting, child labor, economics, images of childhood, children's literature, play, toys & games, health, physiology, law, the criminal justice system & social welfare."

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1. Theory and method in women's history (2 v.) -- 2. Household constitution and family relationships -- 3. Domestic relations and law -- 4. Domestic ideology and domestic work (2 v.) -- 5. The intersection of work and family life (2 v.) -- 6. Working on the land -- 7. Industrial wage work (2 v.) -- 8. Professional and white-collar employments (2 v.) -- 9. Prostitution -- 10. Sexuality and sexual behavior -- 11. Women's bodies -- 12. Education -- 13. Religion -- 14. Intercultural and interracial relations -- 15. Women and war -- 16. Women together -- 17. Social and moral reform (2 v.) -- 18. Women and politics (2 v.) -- 19. Woman suffrage (2 v.) -- 20. Feminist struggles for sex equality