1st Edition

Citizens, Families, and Reform

By Stein Ringen Copyright 2006
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. They contribute as much to a society's economic well-being as does worker productivity in formal markets. In Citizens, Families, and Reform , Stein Ringen shows how long-standing inequalities of income and class are flexible and changing in post-industrial societies. Such inequalities respond to structural changes such as social... Read more
Preface: Reason and Restraint; I: Well-Being; Introduction: Hard Facts About Soft Values; 1: Persons; 2: Families; 3: Children; Reform; Introduction: Soft Means for Hard Goals; 4: Class; 5: Income; 6: The Civic Spirit; Postscript: A Statement on Political Philosophy

Biography

Stein Ringen