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Scott Coltrane, Ph.D.

Scott Coltrane is a sociologist whose research focuses on families, gender, and social inequality.

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In Family Man, sociologist Scott Coltrane brings a wealth of compelling evidence to the debate over the American family.

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He completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Riverside, Associate Director of the UCR Center for Family Studies, recipient of the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award, and past President of the Pacific Sociological Association.

Coltrane is the author of Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity (Oxford University Press, 1996), winner of the American Library Association CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award. He is also author of Gender and Families (Sage, 1998), coauthor (with Randall Collins) of Sociology of Marriage and the Family: Gender Love and Property (Wadsworth, 2001), and