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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Página xii
... effect of welfare but of the size of that effect , is well told in this book by Richard T. Gill . He takes the largest view of the family problem of anyone I have read and urges us to accept the very real possibility that we are ...
... effect of welfare but of the size of that effect , is well told in this book by Richard T. Gill . He takes the largest view of the family problem of anyone I have read and urges us to accept the very real possibility that we are ...
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... effect on family issues . Ultimately , I suppose , my main inspiration for what follows comes from my own family experience with three sons , their wives , and now several grandchildren . One son , Professor T. Grandon Gill , has in ...
... effect on family issues . Ultimately , I suppose , my main inspiration for what follows comes from my own family experience with three sons , their wives , and now several grandchildren . One son , Professor T. Grandon Gill , has in ...
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... ? The ideological revolution , though similarly profound in its effects , does not extend so deeply into the history of the human race . That is to say , whereas the breakdown of the family involves an 1 Introduction.
... ? The ideological revolution , though similarly profound in its effects , does not extend so deeply into the history of the human race . That is to say , whereas the breakdown of the family involves an 1 Introduction.
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... effect that strong families and faith in the Idea of Progress are intimately related ? If the Idea strengthens the institution of the family , how can the process undermine it ? Part 1 ends precisely on this paradoxical note , having ...
... effect that strong families and faith in the Idea of Progress are intimately related ? If the Idea strengthens the institution of the family , how can the process undermine it ? Part 1 ends precisely on this paradoxical note , having ...
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... effects , to be corrosive of all premodern institutions , including the institution of the family . One of the early indirect effects of the process of progress , how- ever , is to suggest and sustain the Idea of Progress . The Idea of ...
... effects , to be corrosive of all premodern institutions , including the institution of the family . One of the early indirect effects of the process of progress , how- ever , is to suggest and sustain the Idea of Progress . The Idea of ...
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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