The Unmaking of the Modern Family - Couverture souple

Dagenais, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774815213 ISBN 13 : 9780774815215

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book is neither an indictment of the new family nor a rallying cry. It is a classical exercise of family sociology that draws upon a range of disciplines - history, anthropology, psychology, and demography - to provide an interpretive model for understanding contemporary changes in the family. It explores traditional family forms in order to identify changes that gave birth to the ideal type of the modern family, and it discusses how the modern family's constituent elements (the family as institution, conjugal and parent-child relationships, and gender and sexuality) relate to modernity's central feature - the concept of the individual. By reconstructing an archetype of the modern family, this book explains why individuals have experienced its deconstruction as a profound identity crisis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Dagenais teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774815213
• ISBN 13: 9780774815215
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible