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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... faith in the future . As we do so , we are also risking our posterity in both senses of the word as a future in which our present labors , efforts , and dreams find imaginative fulfill- ment , and as the raison d'etre for the care ...
... faith in the future . As we do so , we are also risking our posterity in both senses of the word as a future in which our present labors , efforts , and dreams find imaginative fulfill- ment , and as the raison d'etre for the care ...
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... faith that accompanied it , today seems almost quaint . Who could possibly foresee the future over such long stretches of time ? How could anybody feel so much confidence in these rosy predictions ? How could it have been during late ...
... faith that accompanied it , today seems almost quaint . Who could possibly foresee the future over such long stretches of time ? How could anybody feel so much confidence in these rosy predictions ? How could it have been during late ...
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... faith . In most cases , living standards have been rising in these countries ; further , the forces of democracy , long held at bay by communism and / or right - wing dictatorships , seem in- creasingly vigorous ; market economies are ...
... faith . In most cases , living standards have been rising in these countries ; further , the forces of democracy , long held at bay by communism and / or right - wing dictatorships , seem in- creasingly vigorous ; market economies are ...
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... faith in Progress and the future . Actually , when one thinks about the matter , even quite superficially , this connection seems almost too obvious to require much of a defense . The Idea of Progress , however specifically defined ...
... faith in Progress and the future . Actually , when one thinks about the matter , even quite superficially , this connection seems almost too obvious to require much of a defense . The Idea of Progress , however specifically defined ...
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... faith in Progress in recent years are also joined together by a common attitude toward the future , in this case our growing agnosticism about what truly lies ahead of us . If , for whatever reason , we are increas- ingly unable to ...
... faith in Progress in recent years are also joined together by a common attitude toward the future , in this case our growing agnosticism about what truly lies ahead of us . If , for whatever reason , we are increas- ingly unable to ...
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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