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Autore |
Hareven Tamara K. |
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Titolo |
Families, history, and social change : life course and cross-cultural perspectives / / Tamara K. Hareven |
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New York, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Routledge, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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0-429-96912-0 |
1-4294-8641-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (405 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Families - History |
Families |
Social change |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1 Family and Kinship: Continuity and Change; 1 The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change; 2 The Dynamics of Kin in an Industrial Community; 3 A Complex Relationship: Family Strategies and the Processes of Economic and Social Change; Part 2 Studying Lives in Time and Place; 4 Historical Changes in Children's Networks in the Family and Community; 5 Aging and Generational Relations: A Historical and Life-Course Perspective; 6 Synchronizing Individual Time, Family Time, and Historical Time |
7 The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community8 Rising Above Life's Disadvantage: From the Great Depression to War; 9 Changing Images of Aging and the Social Construction of the Life Course; Part 3 Comparative Perspectives; 10 Between Craft and Industry: The Subjective Reconstruction of the Life Course of Kyoto's Traditional Weavers; 11 The Festival's Work as Leisure: The Traditional Craftsmen of the Gion Festival; 12 Divorce, Chinese Style; Part 4 Broader |
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Perspectives; 13 Family Change and Historical Change: An Uneasy Relationship |
14 What Difference Does It Make?Notes; References; Credits; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 industrialization. The essays in Families, History, and Social Change challenge this myth and provide dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about change in the American family. In these interdisciplinary essays that are deeply rooted in history, Hareven provides important perspectives on family relations in the present, dispels myths about family relations in the |
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