Shifting the Center: Understanding the Contemporary Family 5e is a popular anthology of readings used in Sociology of Family and Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. It’s editor, Susan Ferguson, brings together selections written by leading family researchers and drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, including articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from number of classic book-length studies. The table of contents follows the same scope and sequence as the leading family survey texts.

Shifting the Center: Understanding the Contemporary Family, Sixth Edition is a popular anthology of edited readings used in the study of Sociology of Family and of Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationships. Editor Susan J. Ferguson, brings together selections written by leading family researchers and drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, including articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from several classic book-length studies.