Sociology of the family - Topics

Why different surveys disagree about how many children live with both parents What the division of household labor research keeps finding Are family studies a discipline or a meeting point? Why the political generation gap is wider than it used to be Which datasets and surveys family researchers actually rely on Is family studies an interdisciplinary field or a temporary alliance? Educational hypogamy and the couples nobody predicted What did functionalism miss about the family? Sibling number and the odds of divorce later in life: what studies find Why has survey response declined for family research? How do conflict theory and exchange theory explain household bargaining? How the life course perspective differs from family stage models Longitudinal birth cohort studies and what they reveal about families Assortative mating and who ends up with whom Why housework was never counted as work Is marriage an equal partnership or a gendered institution? How social mobility changes what parents expect from their children How do you measure a good marriage in a survey? Is the family beyond reform or just badly designed? Are family decline narratives supported by data? Intergenerational transmission of divorce: how strong is the evidence? Sociology books that explain how the modern family changed Who counts as family in social network research? How do marriage markets in cities and rural areas differ? Symbolic interactionism and the small rituals of family life Does the second demographic transition hold outside Europe?