Author: Karen Isaksen Leonard
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: research, state, states, united, muslims
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2003-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0871545306
ISBN-13: 9780871545305

As the United States wages war on terrorism, the country’s attention is riveted on the Muslim world as never before. While many cursory press accounts dealing with Muslims in the United States have been published since 9/11, few people are aware of the wealth of scholarly research already available on the American Islamic population. In Muslims in the United States, Karen Isaksen Leonard mines this rich vein of research to provide a fascinating overview of the history and contemporary situation of American Muslim communities. Leonard describes how Islam, never a monolithic religion, h

Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: justice, total
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1994-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0871542684
ISBN-13: 9780871542687

Authors:Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, Melissa A. Mil
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: rose, series, sociology, life, family, rhythms, american, changing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0871540932
ISBN-13: 9780871540935

Over the last forty years, the number of American households with a stay-at-home parent has dwindled as women have increasingly joined the paid workforce and more women raise children alone. Many policy makers feared these changes would come at the expense of time mothers spend with their children. In Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, sociologists Suzanne Bianchi, John Robinson, and Melissa Milkie analyze the way families spend their time and uncover surprising new findings about how Americans are balancing the demands of work and family. Using time diary data from sur

Author: Paul A. Jargowsky
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: american, city, barrios, ghettos, place, poverty
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-01
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0871544059
ISBN-13: 9780871544056

Authors:Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, Lee Ra
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: family, future
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0871546280
ISBN-13: 9780871546289

High rates of divorce, single-parenthood, and nonmarital cohabitation are forcing Americans to reexamine their definition of family. This evolving social reality requires public policy to evolve as well. "The Future of the Family" brings together the top scholars of family policy—headlined by editors Lee Rainwater, Tim Smeeding, and, in his last published work, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan—to take stock of the state of the family in the United States today and address the ways in which public policy affects the family and vice versa. The volume opens with an assessment of ne

Authors:Kenneth W. Wachter, Miron L. Straf,
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: analysis, meta, future
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1990-05
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0871548909
ISBN-13: 9780871548900

Authors:Ira Katznelson, Barry R. Weingast,
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: rational, choice, institutionalism, historical, intersection, situations, points, preferences
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2007-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0871544423
ISBN-13: 9780871544421