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Shifting the Center: Understanding the Contemporary Family, Sixth Edition is a popular anthology of edited readings used in Sociology of Family and of Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. 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.

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Shifting the Center: Understanding the Contemporary Family, Sixth Edition is a popular anthology of edited readings used in Sociology of Family and of Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. 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.
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Susan J. Ferguson is Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, where she has taught courses on the family, medical sociology, and a seminar on social inequality and identity for over 25 years. She is the author of, Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic (with co-editor Anne Kasper, Palgrave, 2000), and two other popular teaching anthologies for SAGE: Mapping the Social Landscape (for introductory sociology), and Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Class: Dimensions of Identity and Inequality. Ferguson also serves as a department consultant and member of the Department Resources Group (DRG) for the American Sociological Association. In this capacity she reviews departments, helps with assessment, mentors sociology colleagues, and addresses particular concerns with curriculum or departmental structure. Ferguson also is active in the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning, and she regularly offers teaching workshops at regional and national meetings. In 2016 she co-authored the Measuring College Learning White Paper in Sociology (Jossey-Bass), and was co-chair of the ASA Task Force on Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major, which published The Sociology Major in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education: Curriculum, Careers, and Online Learning. In 2022 she was selected to be the new Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at Grinnell.