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Social class and changing families in an unequal America / edited by Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8047-7088-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8047-7089-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. FamiliesUnited States. 2. Social classesUnited States. 3. EqualityUnited States. I. Carlson, Marcia J., editor of compilation. II. England, Paula, 1949- editor of compilation.
HQ536.S665 2011
306.850973dc22
2010050158
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E-book ISBN: 978-0-8047-7908-1
CONTRIBUTORS
Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the well-being of children and parents, with a current focus on unmarried fathers. Her recent work has been published in Demography and Journal of Marriage and Family.
Andrew J. Cherlin is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University. His recent articles include The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage in the Journal of Marriage and Family and Family Instability and Child Well-Being in the American Sociological Review. He is the author of The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today.
Amanda Cox is a doctoral student in Sociology of Education at the Stanford University School of Education. Her interests are social class and the reproduction of inequality, with a focus on elite education. She has conducted ethnographic research on the role of cultural capital in an educational program designed to help low- and moderate-income students of color gain access to elite educational institutions.
Kathryn Edin is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Current research interests include disadvantaged youth and the transition to adulthood, the tradeoffs parents consider as they make residential choices, how housingbroadly conceivedinfluences the well-being of young children, the growing class gap in civic engagement, and the meaning of fatherhood among disadvantaged urban men.
Paula England is Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her recent research focuses on class differences in early, unintended pregnancy and births. She is also studying dating, hooking up, and relationships among college students. She is the author (with George Farkas) of Households, Employment, and Gender.
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania where he is also a member of the Population Studies Center. His most recent book is Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing. He has served as the Chair of the MacArthur Network on Adult Transitions and is a co-editor of On the Frontier of Adulthood.
Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Unequal Childhoods and Home Advantage. She also edited Social Class: How Does It Work (with Dalton Conley) and Educational Research on Trial (with Pamela Barnhouse Walters and Sherri Ranis). In 2011, the University of California Press will publish a second edition of Unequal Childhoods; it includes 100 new pages describing the results of follow-up interviews completed a decade after the original study.
Elizabeth Aura McClintock is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. She studies gender and romantic relationships. Her recent articles have been published in Journal of Marriage and Family and in Population and Development Review.
Sara McLanahan is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where she also serves as founding director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, and editor-in-chief of the Future of Children. Her research interests include the effects of family structure and relationship transitions on child well-being, social policies relating to children and families, and poverty and inequality. She is a principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, and her books include Fathers under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement, Social Policies for Children, and Growing Up with a Single Parent.
S. Philip Morgan is Professor of Sociology and Norb R. Schaeffer Professor of International Studies at Duke University. He is former president of the Population Association of America and former editor of the journal Demography. He has chaired the Sociology Departments at the University of Pennsylvania (199396) and Duke University (2002-08). Beginning in July of 2008, Morgan assumed the directorship of Dukes Social Science Research Institute. Morgans work focuses on family and fertility change (over time) and diversity (across groups). Much of his work has focused on the United States but he has collaborated on projects focusing on other countries, both developed and developing.
Timothy J. Nelson is Lecturer in Social Policy at Harvards Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of Every Time I Feel the Spirit, an ethnography of an African American congregation, and the co-author with Kathryn Edin of a forthcoming book tentatively called Fragile Fathers, based on interviews with low-income, noncustodial fathers in Philadelphia and Camden, N.J.
Joanna Miranda Reed received her PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University in 2008. She is now a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University.
Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University. She received her PhD in Sociology from Stanford University in 2010. Her research interests include gender, family, and health.
