Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Overview

   1. Family Theories and Methods

      • William J. Doherty, Pauline G. Boss, Ralph LaRossa, Walter R. Schumm, Suzanne K. Steinmetz

      Pages 3-30

   2. Metatheory and Family Studies

      • David M. Klein, Joan A. Jurich

      Pages 31-67

3. The Emergence of Family Theories and Methods

   1. Family Theory and Methods in the Classics

      • Bert N. Adams, Suzanne K. Steinmetz

      Pages 71-98

   2. Historical Methods in Family Research

      • Jay D. Schvaneveldt, Robert S. Pickett, Margaret H. Young

      Pages 99-116

   3. Comparative Methods in Family Research

      • Gary R. Lee, Linda Haas

      Pages 117-131

4. Family Theories and Methods Emerging during 1918–1929

   1. Symbolic Interactionism and Family Studies

      • Ralph LaRossa, Donald C. Reitzes

      Pages 135-166

   2. Qualitative Family Research

      • Paul C. Rosenblatt, Lucy Rose Fischer

      Pages 167-177

5. Family Theories and Methods Emerging during 1930–1945

   1. Quantitative Measurement in Family Research

      • Karen S. Wampler, Charles F. Halverson Jr.

      Pages 181-194

   2. Structural-Functionalism

      • Nancy Kingsbury, John Scanzoni

      Pages 195-221

6. Family Theories and Methods Emerging during 1946–1960

   1. Family Development Theory

      • Roy H. Rodgers, James M. White

      Pages 225-257

   2. Longitudinal Research Methods and Family Theories

      • Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Deborah D. Godwin

      Pages 259-273

   3. Theoretical Contributions from Developmental Psychology

      • Inge Bretherton

      Pages 275-301

   4. Simulation and Experimentation in Family Research

      • George W. Howe, David Reiss

      Pages 303-321

7. Family Theories and Methods Emerging during 1960–1980

   1. Systems Theory

      • Gail G. Whitchurch, Larry L. Constantine

      Pages 325-355

   2. Social Conflict Theories of the Family

      • Keith Farrington, Ely Chertok

      Pages 357-384

   3. Exchange and Resource Theories

      • Ronald M. Sabatelli, Constance L. Shehan

      Pages 385-417

   4. Human Ecology Theory

      • Margaret M. Bubolz, M. Suzanne Sontag

      Pages 419-450

   5. Analysis of Covariance Structures Applied to Family Research and Theory

      • Alan C. Acock, Walter R. Schumm

      Pages 451-468

   6. The Life Course Perspective Applied to Families Over Time

      • Vern L. Bengtson, Katherine R. Allen

      Pages 469-504

Origins We call this book on theoretical orientations and methodological strategies in family studies a sourcebook because it details the social and personal roots (i.e., sources) from which these orientations and strategies flow. Thus, an appropriate way to preface this book is to talk first of its roots, its beginnings. In the mid 1980s there emerged in some quarters the sense that it was time for family studies to take stock of itself. A goal was thus set to write a book that, like Janus, would face both backward and forward a book that would give readers both a perspec tive on the past and a map for the future. There were precedents for such a project: The Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Harold Christensen and published in 1964; the two Contemporary Theories about theFamily volumes edited by Wesley Burr, Reuben Hill, F. Ivan Nye, and Ira Reiss, published in 1979; and the Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Marvin Sussman and Suzanne Steinmetz, then in production.

• CBT
• family development
• family discourse
• human ecology
• interaction
• life course
• marriage
• metatheory
• social learning

• Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

  Pauline Boss, William J. Doherty

• Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

  Ralph LaRossa

• School of Family Studies and Human Services, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA

  Walter R. Schumm

• Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA

  Suzanne K. Steinmetz

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