Diversity in Families, Updated Edition, 10th edition

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• Quizzing
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• Integrated Writing Tools

REVEL’s writing functionality enables educators to introduce writing — among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking — into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion.
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• Familiar Learning and Study Tools
Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary personalize the learning experience. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips.

• Assignment CalendarREVEL allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. And when students know what is expected of them, they're better motivated to keep up.
• Performance Dashboard
REVEL lets educators monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement. It offers actionable information that helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task. Of particular note, the trending column reveals whether students' grades are improving or declining – which helps educators identify students who might need help to stay on track.

Within the text you will find that it:

• Emphasizes the Influences of Social Forces - Highlights the effects that race, class, gender, and sexulaity have on family diversity. Emergent Family Trends boxes look at new family patterns and their possible effects on future families.
• Explores Research - Researching Families boxes present the main approaches and methods sociologists use in their studies.
• Improves Critical Thinking - Think About This boxes encourage students to think critically about family issues especially pertinent to them. While Emergent Family Trends boxes provide a critical look at new family patterns and the meaning they have for future families.

• Interactives and Videos
Integrated within the narrative, interactives empower students to engage with concepts and take an active role in learning. REVEL's unique presentation of media as an intrinsic part of course content brings the hallmark features of Pearson's bestselling titles to life. REVEL's media interactives have been designed to be completed quicklyso students stay focused and on task.
• QuizzingLocated throughout REVEL, quizzing affords students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on.

• Integrated Writing Tools

REVEL’s writing functionality enables educators to introduce writing – among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking – into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion.
• A Fully Mobile Learning Experience
REVEL enables students to read and interact with course material on the devices they use, anywhere and anytime. Responsive design allows students to access REVEL on their tablet devices and smart phones, with content displayed clearly in both portrait and landscape view.
• Familiar Learning and Study ToolsHighlighting, note taking, and a glossary personalize the learning experience. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips.

• Assignment Calendar
REVEL allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. And when students know what is expected of them, they're better motivated to keep up.
• Performance DashboardREVEL lets educators monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement. It offers actionable information that helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task. Of particular note, the trending column reveals whether students' grades are improving or declining — which helps educators identify students who might need help to stay on track.

Changes to the Text:

• Sharpened focus on the macro and micro and emphasized human agency in the analysis
• New chapter 4 on how families are affected by the structural transformation of the economy, globalization, and the Great Recession
• Each chapter has been reorganized to make the themes of the book more explicit
• Each chapter includes material on demythologizing, macro (societal forces) impinging on the micro (families), diversity in families, and human agency