MODERN ROMANCE? Cohabitation and the Remaking of the Family

Trained as a social demographer, Professor Sassler’s presentation explores contemporary relationships, including entrance into romantic relationships, cohabitation, and marriage. Her 2017 book, Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships, examines how cohabitation is contributing to growing levels of family inequality in the United States; it won the American Sociological Associations’ Goode Book Award in 2018.

This is an Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honors Society Speaker Series event, sponsored by the Department of Sociology. All members of the campus community are welcomed. Reception and refreshments served