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Alone Together : How Marriage in America Is Changing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020184
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alone TogetherDDC classification:
  • 306.81097309045
LOC classification:
  • HQ536
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Continuing Transformation of Marriage in America -- 2 Stability and Change in Marital Quality -- 3 Rising Individualism and Demographic Change -- 4 Who Benefited from the Rise of Dual-Earner Marriage- and Who Did Not? -- 5 Changing Gender Relations in Marriage -- 6 Social Integration, Religion, and Attitudes toward Lifelong Marriage -- 7 How Our Most Important Relationships Are Changing -- 8 Implications for Theory, Future Research,and Social Policy -- Appendix 1: Study Methodology -- Appendix 2: Tables -- References -- Index.
Summary: Based on two studies of marital quality in America 20 years apart, the authors argue that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the changes that have occurred in society, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Continuing Transformation of Marriage in America -- 2 Stability and Change in Marital Quality -- 3 Rising Individualism and Demographic Change -- 4 Who Benefited from the Rise of Dual-Earner Marriage- and Who Did Not? -- 5 Changing Gender Relations in Marriage -- 6 Social Integration, Religion, and Attitudes toward Lifelong Marriage -- 7 How Our Most Important Relationships Are Changing -- 8 Implications for Theory, Future Research,and Social Policy -- Appendix 1: Study Methodology -- Appendix 2: Tables -- References -- Index.

Based on two studies of marital quality in America 20 years apart, the authors argue that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the changes that have occurred in society, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement.

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