Summary
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KEY FEATURES: • Designed to be used in a range of 100-level and 200-level courses, including introductory sociology, social problems, and courses that focus on race, class, gender, or sexuality. • Introduces students to basic analytic techniques in the social sciences, such as frequency distributions, cross-tabulations, and comparisons of means. • No software purchase required–all exercises are carried out on the open-access Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) website. • Screen captures from the SDA website, and careful step-by-step instructions, are provided to help students with no previous data analysis experience. • Early chapters focus on single categories of difference and inequality; later chapters examine how these factors intersect within the domains of family, education, and work. • Multiple choice questions and open-ended exercises at the end of each chapter test mastery of the material and give students opportunities to extend their analyses to other questions.
Analyzing Inequalities in Families
Analyzing Inequalities in Families
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
- Identify GSS variables related to family.
- Analyze family change and family diversity using the GSS, paying particular attention to inequalities of race, ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality.
- Use a variety of analytic techniques appropriately to analyze issues related to families in the US.
- Interpret these analyses using a social justice framework.
Introduction: Family Change and Family Diversity
In June 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. After decades of LGBT organization and activism, the decision “set off jubilation and tearful embraces across the country” as same-sex couples and their families were finally recognized with, as Justice Kennedy wrote, ...
