1st Edition
The Name Game Cultural Modernization and First Names
Edited By Jurgen Gerhards
Copyright 2005
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old fashioned and replaced by new choices. In The Name Game , Jurgen Gerhards shows that shifts in the choice of names are based on more than arbitrary trends of fashion. Instead, he demonstrates, they are determined by larger currents in cultural modernization. Using... Read more
1: Introduction: The Culture of Society; 2: Data, Methods, and Research Context; 3: Secularization Processes and the Dissolution of Religious Ties; 4: Regime Change and the Rise and Fall of German Names in the Twentieth Century; 5: Dissolution of Traditional Ties; 6: Rise of the Individual; 7: Globalization; 8: Gender Classification and Changing Sex Roles; 9: Synopsis: Cultural Developments and First Names
Biography
Jurgen Gerhards
