The Family in America

Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age

Robert McC. Adams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2003
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0536-2 (ISBN)

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The Family in America offers a fresh interpretation of American social history, emphasizing the vital role of the family and household autonomy and threats to both imposed by industrial organization and the state. Allan Carlson shows that the United States, rather than being "born modern" as a progressive consumerist society, was in fact founded as an agrarian society composed of independent households rooted in land, lineage, and hierarchy.

Carlson argues that family survival continues to be of paramount importance today. He critically examines five distinct strategies to restore a foundation for family life in industrial society, drawing on the insights of Frederic LePlay, Carle Zimmerman, and G. K. Chesterton. Carlson shows that family survival depends on the creation of meaningful, "pre-modern" household economies. This new edition includes an introduction by Allan Carlson, detailing the continued press of the industrial process onto the American family structure since initial publication of the book in 1993.

Allan Carlson is president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society in Rockford, Illinois, and director of the Family in America Studies Center. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Kansas Crime Prevention Commission. He is the author of The New Agrarian Mind, The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics, and Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis, all available from Transaction.

Transaction Introduction, Foreword, I The American Constitutional Arrangement, II The Family Wage Experiment, III The Suburban Strategy, IV The Religious Possibility, V The Cold War Family, VI The Professional Temptation, VII An Elusive Harmony, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.2003
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7658-0536-7 / 0765805367
ISBN-13	978-0-7658-0536-2 / 9780765805362
Zustand	Neuware