Marriages Families and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society 12th Edition

This best-selling text on marriages, families, and relationships combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: making choices in a diverse society. The authors use an engaging narrative to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and family forms. The balanced presentation discusses a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., family ecology, structure-functional, interaction-constructionist, family systems, biosocial), emphasizing both social structure and the importance of individual agency, choice, and decision-making. Students are encouraged to question assumptions and reconcile conflicting ideas and values as they make informed choices in their own lives. Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society 12th Edition is written by Mary Ann Lamanna; Agnes Riedmann; Susan D Stewart and published by Cengage Learning. ISBNs for Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society are 9798214348483, and the print ISBNs are 9781285736976, 1285736974. Additional ISBNs include 9781305235618, 9781285804941, 9781285737003, 9781305212497, 9780357702734, 9781305176898.