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1 online resource (401 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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; Introduction; The Historical Context: Manchester, New Hampshire; Recruitment and Migration; Hiring, Placement, and Job Control; Kin Assistance in Critical Life Situations; Limitations of Kin Assistance; Migration and the Continuity of the Kinship System; Continuities and Discontinuities in the Functions of Kin |
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ConclusionAppendix: The Data Base; 3 A Complex Relationship: Family Strategies and the Processes of Economic and Social Change; Introduction; The Family in the Process of Industrialization; Strategies of Kin Assistance; Family Labor-Force Strategies and the Household Economy; Whose Strategies Were Family Strategies?; Conclusion: Long-Term Historical Changes; Part 2 Studying Lives in Time and Place; 4 Historical Changes in Children's Networks in the Family and Community; Introduction; Demographic Changes Affecting the Position of Children in the Family |
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Impact of the Domestic Child-Centered Family on Children's NetworksEmergence of Institutions and Peer Groups Outside of the Family; The Segregation of Childhood and Children; The Return of Diversity; Implications for Child Development; 5 Aging and Generational Relations: A Historical and Life-Course Perspective; Introduction; The Life-Course Paradigm; The Timing of Life Transitions; Myths About the Past; Coresidence; Historical Changes in the Timing of Life Transitions; Interdependence Among Kin; Generational Supports over the Life Course; Cohort Differences; Conclusion |
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6 Synchronizing Individual Time, Family Time, and Historical TimeThe Definition of Timing; Characteristics of Timing over the Life Course; Transitions and Turning Points; Cohort Differences in the Timing of Transitions and Perceptions of Turning Points; Comparisons of the Manchester Patterns with Those of Japan; Historical and Comparative Implications; 7 The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community; Introduction; Intergenerational Supports over the Life Course; Coresidence Among the Generations; The Making of a ""Parent Keeper, |
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The Shadow of the Nursing HomeCohort Location in Historical Time; 8 Rising Above Life's Disadvantage: From the Great Depression to War; Depression Children in the Bay Area and in Manchester; Recasting Men's Lives Through Military Service; Escaping Hard Times in the Bay Area; Respite from the Great Depression in Manchester; Accelerating the Timing of Life Transitions; Discussion; 9 Changing Images of Aging and the Social Construction of the Life Course; Introduction; The Discovery of Stages of Life; The Emergence of Discontinuities in the Life Course; Discontinuities in the Life Course |
| Summary |
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 past, offers new directions in research and interpretation, and revises our understanding of social change. Hareven's essays, which are based on thirty years of research, combine empirical evidence with theoretical frameworks and discussions of the state of the art in this exciting field. The essays cover a wide spectrum of issues and topics such as the organization of the family and the household, the networks available to children as they were growing up, the role of the family in the process of industrialization, the division of labor in the family along gender lines, and the relations between the generations in the later years of life. Coincidentally, the essays revolve around three central themes: The family's interaction with the process of industrialization, the life course, and the development of the field of family history--and its future directions. They are both interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. Professor Hareven is a pioneer and leader in the development of the field of family history. Her work makes a major contribution to the theoretical and substantive aspects of scholarship on family life, past and present, and on social change. Her essays also provide a fine understanding of this field's development |
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Changes in the Family |
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Families -- History.
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Families -- Cross-cultural studies
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Social change.
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FAMILY and RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family
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FAMILY and RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference
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Families.
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Levensloop
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Sociale verandering
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Interculturele vergelijking
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Familie -- Sozialer Wandel -- USA -- Geschichte
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Sozialer Wandel -- Familie -- USA -- Geschichte
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Familie -- Sozialer Wandel -- Aufsatzsammlung
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Sozialer Wandel -- Familie -- Aufsatzsammlung
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Familie
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Sozialer Wandel
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Nuclear families.
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Nuclear families
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Families
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Social change
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Cross-cultural studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429980206 |
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0429980205 |
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