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

• Autore: Verdon Michel
• Pubblicazione: London : , : New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85; 640.94
• Soggetto topico: Households - Europe; Households - Canada; Families - Europe; Households - Economic aspects
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking households
• ISBN: 0-429-23222-5; 1-134-67526-7; 1-280-06983-X; 0-585-44888-4; 0-203-45125-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170994303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 3.