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Families, History And Social Change Life Course And Cross-cultural Perspectives
400 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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One of the prevailing myths about the American family is that there once existed a harmonious family with three generations living together, and that this "ideal" family broke down under the impact of urbanization and industralization. The essays in this volume challenge this myth and provide dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about change in the American family. Based on detailed research... Read more
Preface -- Family and Kinship -- The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change -- The Dynamic of Kin in an Industrial Community -- A Complex Relationship -- Studying Lives in Time and Place -- Historical Changes in Children’s Networks in the Family and Community -- Aging and Generational Relations -- Synchronizing Individual Time, Family Time, and Historical Time -- The Generation in the Middle -- Rising Above Life’s Disadvantage -- Changing Images of Aging and the Social Construction of the Life Course -- Comparative Perspectives -- Between Craft and Industry -- The Festival’s Work as Leisure -- Divorce, Chinese Style -- Broader Perspectives -- Family Change and Historical Change -- What Difference Does It Make?
Biography
Tamara K Hareven
