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Record Nr.

UNISA996202216903316

Autore

Verdon Michel

Titolo

Rethinking households : an atomistic perspective on European living arrangements / / Michel Vernon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

0-429-23222-5

1-134-67526-7

1-280-06983-X

0-585-44888-4

0-203-45125-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 3

Disciplina

306.85

640.94

Soggetti

Households - Europe

Households - Canada

Families - Europe

Households - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Towards an atomistic set of axioms; Introduction; The ubiquity of collectivistic assumptions; Family, residence, domesticity and households: the parameters of a conceptual morass; An atomistic set of axioms for Western residence; Atomism, neoindividualism and household economics; Residence, no 'principle of social organization'; Atomism applied: some paradigmatic cases; An atomistic view of the Russian multiple family household; An atomistic view of various stem families

The world we have lost: the medieval English householdThe world we have gained: Canada 1971  1986; Abutia: a different residential logic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study offers a radical and multidisciplinary method of examining household formation and recognizes residence as the critical



determinant of all household forming practices.