Scott Coltrane is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Families and Society (2004), Sociology of Marriage and the Family (2001), Gender and Families (1998), and Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework and Gender Equity (1996) selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book by the American Library Association. Coltrane's research focuses on the interplay among parenting, gender, ethnicity, domestic labor, and social inequality. He is past President of the Pacific Sociological Association and Principal Investigator on NIH-funded longitudinal studies examining parenting and adolescent development in Mexican American and European American families.

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• Coltrane, Scott (1996). Family man: Fatherhood, housework, and gender equity. New York: Oxford University Press, 293 pp.
  
  Abstract: Family Man explores American husbands' responses to the changing realities of life in two-job families. Relying on interviews, national survey data, economic indicators, demographic trends, and media imagery, he paints ...(more)
  
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• Scott Coltrane and Melinda Messineo. 2000. The Perpetuation of Subtle Prejudice: Race and Gender Imagery in 1990s Television Advertising. Sex Roles, 42, 363-89.
  
  Abstract: Scholars have long argued that popular consumer culture is both producer and product of social inequality, but few detailed empirical studies have explored the ways that advertising imagery simultaneously constructs ster...(more)
  
  http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0360-0025


• Coltrane, Scott. (2001). Marketing the Marriage "Solution:" Misplaced Simplicity in the Politics of Fatherhood. Sociological Perspectives 44, 387-402.
  
  Abstract: Marriage and fatherhood policies, inspired by the Christian Right and backed by conservative think tanks, have gained widespread support based on moral framing of family issues and simplistic interpretation of sociologic...(more)
  
  http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/sop/


• Coltrane, Scott and Collins, Randall. (2001). Sociology of marriage and the family: Gender, love, and property (Fifth Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth ITP, 634 pp.
  
  Abstract: This sociological analysis of the system of marriage and family focuses on the family as an institution in society. It uniquely encompasses many facets of society, through a cultural and historical perspective. While set...(more)
  
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• Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams. 2003. The Social Construction of the Divorce “Problem”: Morality, Child Victims, and the Politics of Gender. Family Relations Vol. 52, No. 4, 363–372
  
  Abstract: Although divorce rates have been stable or dropping for decades, Americans seem anxious about the state of marriage. Using a sociology of knowledge perspective, we examine reasons for this collective anxiety. Taking a ...(more)
  
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• Scott Coltrane, Ross D. Parke and Michele Adams. Complexity of Father Involvement In Low-Income Mexican American Families. Family Relations 53, No. 2, 179-189.
  
  Abstract: We identify multiple predictors of five types of father involvement in 167 low- to moderate-income two-parent Mexican American families with 5th grade children. Analyses show that fathers’ egalitarian gender attitudes a...(more)
  
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