SOC 459

The Social Demography of Partnerships and Families

3 units

Fall 2021

Topics

Understand the interdisciplinary nature of the study of partnerships and family processes
Understand the relationship between population change and family change
Understand how contemporary family patterns relate to family patterns of the past

Readings

Ruggles, Steven. 2015. "Patriarchy, Power, and Pay: The Transformation of American Families, 1800-2015," Demography 52 (6): 1797-1823. https://read-dukeupress- edu.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/demography/issue/52/6 ↗
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Manning, Wendy D. (2020), “Young Adulthood Relationships in an Era of Uncertainty: A Case for Cohabitation”, Demography 57: 799–819. https://linkspringer- com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/article/10.1007/s13524-020-00881-9 ↗
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Pesando, Luca and the GFC team (2018), “Global family change: Persistent diversity with development”, Population and Development Review 45 (1): 133-168. https://doi- org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1111/padr.12209 ↗
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Goldscheider Frances, E. Bernhardt and Trude Lappegård (2015), “The gender revolution: A framework for understanding changing family and demographic behavior”, Population and Development Review 41 (2): 207-239. https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00045.x ↗
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Rendall, Michael S., Margaret M. Weden, Melissa M. Favreault, and Hilary Waldron
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Torches, Florencia and Tamkinat Rauf (2020), “The transition to fatherhood and the health of men”, Journal of Marriage and Family 83 (2): 446-465. [SKIM] https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1111/jomf.12732 ↗
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Umberson, Debra, Mieke B. Thomeer, Amanda M. Pollitt and Sara E. Mernitz (2020), “The Psychological Toll of Emotion Work in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marital Dyads”, Journal of Marriage and Family 82 (4): 1141-1158. [SKIM] https://doi- org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1111/jomf.12686 ↗
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Leopold, Thomas and C. M. Lechner (2015), “Parents’ death and adult well-being: Gender, age, and adaptation to filial bereavement”, Journal of Marriage and Family 77 (3): 747–760. https://onlinelibrary-wiley- com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.12186 ↗
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Massey, Douglas (2017), “Why death haunts black lives”, Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences 114 (5): 800-802. https://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://www.pnas.org/content/pn as/114/5/915.full.pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1620083114 ↗
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ISBN 1620083114
Curry, Andrew (2019), “A painful legacy. Mice hint at how people’s emotional trauma may affect the biology of their children—and their children’s children, Science 365 (6450): 212-215 (19 July 2019). https://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://science.sciencemag.org/con tent/sci/365/6450/212.full.pdf ↗
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Shafer, Kevin and Scott D. Easton. 2021. “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychological Distress, and Fathering Behaviors,” Journal of Marriage and Family 83 (4): 1076-1098. https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1111/jomf.12759 ↗
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Perales, Francisco and Stefanie Plage (2020), “Sexual orientation, geographic proximity, and contact frequency between adult siblings”, Journal of Marriage and Family 82 (October): 1444–1460. https://doi- org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1111/jomf.12669 ↗
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Thomas, Michael J. and Lars Dommermuth (2020), “Internal migration and the role of intergenerational family ties and life events”, Journal of Marriage and Family 82 (October): 1461–1478. https://onlinelibrary-wiley- com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.12678 ↗
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Leibbrand, Christine, Catherine Massey, J. Trent Alexander, and Stewart Tolnay (2019), “Neighborhood attainment outcomes for children of the Great Migration”, American Journal of Sociology 125 (1): 141-183. https://www-journals-uchicago- edu.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/doi/10.1086/703682 ↗
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Hornstra, Maaike, Matthijs Kalmijn and Katya Ivanova (2020), “Fatherhood in complex families: Ties between adult children, biological fathers, and stepfathers”, Journal of Marriage and Family 82 (5): 1637-1654. https://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12679 ↗
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Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth (2020), “US racial inequality may be as deadly as COVID-19,” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences 117 (36): 21854-21856. https://doi- org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1073/pnas.2014750117 ↗
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ISBN 2185421856

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
2020-Winter-SOC-459-LECTURE-B1 ↗2020
2021-Winter-SOC-459-LECTURE-B1 ↗2021
2021-Fall-SOC-459-LECTURE-800 ↗2021
2022-Fall-SOC-459-LECTURE-A1 ↗2022
Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
No textbook required according to this source. Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.