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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... analysis : the decline of the American family and the fading of the Idea of Progress . In dictionary terms , the word " posterity " refers both to ( 1 ) our descendants and all succeeding generations , and ( 2 ) the future gener- ally ...
... analysis : the decline of the American family and the fading of the Idea of Progress . In dictionary terms , the word " posterity " refers both to ( 1 ) our descendants and all succeeding generations , and ( 2 ) the future gener- ally ...
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... analysis of this book will link them directly through their common attitude toward the future . A long time horizon , extend- ing well beyond any individual's life expectancy and centered on the fate of descendants in this terrestial ...
... analysis of this book will link them directly through their common attitude toward the future . A long time horizon , extend- ing well beyond any individual's life expectancy and centered on the fate of descendants in this terrestial ...
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... analysis of family breakdown in America must locate its causes in the general socioeconomic processes characteristic of the economically advanced nations of the West . I am speaking here of those great modern trends involving scientific ...
... analysis of family breakdown in America must locate its causes in the general socioeconomic processes characteristic of the economically advanced nations of the West . I am speaking here of those great modern trends involving scientific ...
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... analysis is developed for the most part with specific reference to the historical situation of the United States . There is , more- over , a further and rather intriguing question that arises in the course of this discussion : How was ...
... analysis is developed for the most part with specific reference to the historical situation of the United States . There is , more- over , a further and rather intriguing question that arises in the course of this discussion : How was ...
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... analysis is correct , the breakdown of this morality , and the consequent controversy over " family values " in our postmodern era must be seen as related to , and in fact part and parcel of , the fundamental predicament of progress . A ...
... analysis is correct , the breakdown of this morality , and the consequent controversy over " family values " in our postmodern era must be seen as related to , and in fact part and parcel of , the fundamental predicament of progress . A ...
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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