David Popenoe

Disturbing the Nest (eBook, PDF)

Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

Disturbing the Nest assesses the future of the family as an institution through an historical and comparative analysis of the nature, causes, and social implications of family change in advanced western societies such as the United States, New Zealand, and Switzerland by focusing on the one society in which family decline is found to be the greates

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000114539
• Artikelnr.: 60349070

Autorenporträt

David Popenoe is professor of sociology and co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles, and as co-chair of the Council on Families in America, he was the primary author of its pioneering 1995 report Marriage in America: A Report to the Nation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Family Change in History and Theory
Chapter 1. What Is Family Decline?
Chapter 2. Family Decline: The Career of an Idea
Chapter 3. The Global Family Trend
Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall in the West of the Modern
Nuclear Family
Part II. The Case of Sweden
Chapter 5. Historical Development of the Family in Sweden
Chapter 6. The Family as a Public Issue: The Development of
Swedish Family Policy, 1930
1950
Chapter 7. Cultural Transformation: Family and Society in Sweden After the Mid
Twentieth Century
Chapter 8. Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Changing Family in Sweden Today
Chapter 9. The Swedish Family in Institutional Decline
Chapter 10. Swedish Family Decline: A Search for Explanations
Part III. The Family in Other Advanced Societies
Chapter 11. Outposts of the Traditional Family: Switzerland and New Zealand
Chapter 12. Family and Society in the United States
Part IV. Conclusions
Chapter 13. A Postnuclear Family Trend
Chapter 14. The Social Implications of Modern Family Decline
Bibliography
Index.