Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American FamilyRowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 353 páginas In this pathbreaking study that has earned the praise of scholars, family advocates, and policymakers, Richard T. Gill does more than illuminate the multiple causes and devastating effects of America's diminishing spirit of optimism. In order to reverse this disturbing trend, Gill urges Americans to reject short-term solutions, expand their time horizons, and, above all, give increasing care and attention to their children. |
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... United States . 2. Social values - United States . 3. United States - Civilization - 20th century . 4. United States- Social conditions - 1945- 5. Family policy - United States . 6. Progress . HQ536.G545 1997 306.85'0973 - dc21 96-49901 ...
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... United States , and has been doing so since long before the enactment of modern welfare programs . To grasp at a glance what this book is about , look at the table on page 61 in chapter 3 : For thirty years , the rates of divorce ...
... United States , and has been doing so since long before the enactment of modern welfare programs . To grasp at a glance what this book is about , look at the table on page 61 in chapter 3 : For thirty years , the rates of divorce ...
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... United States heading over similar time spans ? Does anyone feel anything even approaching probability , let alone certainty , on this matter ? Another way to phrase the change in our ideology is with reference to religion . Speaking ...
... United States heading over similar time spans ? Does anyone feel anything even approaching probability , let alone certainty , on this matter ? Another way to phrase the change in our ideology is with reference to religion . Speaking ...
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... United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . I shall try to show specifically how the triumph of the Idea of Progress following the Industrial Revolution was accompanied by an enormous increase in the prestige of the family ...
... United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . I shall try to show specifically how the triumph of the Idea of Progress following the Industrial Revolution was accompanied by an enormous increase in the prestige of the family ...
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... United States can only be explained in a very broad socioeconomic and ideological context . A number of propositions ... United States , Sweden , France , Britain , or the Low Coun- tries is an interesting question , but one we do not ...
... United States can only be explained in a very broad socioeconomic and ideological context . A number of propositions ... United States , Sweden , France , Britain , or the Low Coun- tries is an interesting question , but one we do not ...
Contenido
In Disarray The American Family Approaching Year 2000 | 13 |
The Future at Risk The Consequences of Family Breakdown | 33 |
Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete | 57 |
The Crucial Role of the Ideology of Progress | 83 |
How the Process Gave Rise and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 103 |
The First Great Predicament of Progress | 119 |
A Horrible Capacity for Mass Annihilation | 135 |
LimitstoGrowth Predicaments | 151 |
Family values Evolution or Revolution? | 219 |
A Major Battleground Self vs Posterity | 237 |
Equality Family Advantages and Moral Relativism | 257 |
Reclaiming the Family Principles and Programs | 275 |
We Can Act But Will We? | 297 |
Notes | 315 |
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About the Author | |
The Fundamental Predicament of Progress | 171 |
Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 189 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
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