Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American FamilyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997 - 353 páginas Has the American spirit of optimism disappeared? This original and provocative book provides a penetrating analysis of two developments which are revolutionizing late 20th century America. The decline of the American family and a waning faith in the Idea of Progress are in sharp contrast to our historic past. Richard T. Gill links these two significant developments by examining our changing attitudes to the future. Americans today increasingly focus on the short term instead of the long view, and the losers in this myopic process are both the family, which is responsible for rearing the future generation, and the Idea of Progress, which once guaranteed that future generations would enjoy increasingly happy and productive lives. Posterity Lost provides a thought-provoking examination of these disturbing developments and offers some hopeful suggestions for their reversal. |
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... things around and restore something of the historic potency of family life to our na- tional future . But first things first . And the very first of these first things is what I have attempted to show in this chapter , namely , that ...
... things around and restore something of the historic potency of family life to our na- tional future . But first things first . And the very first of these first things is what I have attempted to show in this chapter , namely , that ...
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... things obviously can and do happen from time to time . What the believer will say is not that these bad things are , in fact , good things because later observers believe them so . On the contrary , the believer will say either that ...
... things obviously can and do happen from time to time . What the believer will say is not that these bad things are , in fact , good things because later observers believe them so . On the contrary , the believer will say either that ...
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... thing " that was Progress was , and also provided marching orders into the future , thus promising that this " good ... things considered , remained re- markably orderly and controlled . Here is what James Q. Wilson has written about ...
... thing " that was Progress was , and also provided marching orders into the future , thus promising that this " good ... things considered , remained re- markably orderly and controlled . Here is what James Q. Wilson has written about ...
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Preface χν | 1 |
Family Breakdown | 11 |
The Consequences of Family | 33 |
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Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard T. Gill Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
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