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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... happen over long periods of time . We don't know . Perhaps we never really did know , but now we also feel that we don't know . The world has become too complicated , too vast , too rapidly changing for us to comprehend in any simple ...
... happen over long periods of time . We don't know . Perhaps we never really did know , but now we also feel that we don't know . The world has become too complicated , too vast , too rapidly changing for us to comprehend in any simple ...
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... happens in the future and on this earth , or if not literally on this earth , at least on future earths that the descendants of the human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this - worldly , rather than other - worldly ...
... happens in the future and on this earth , or if not literally on this earth , at least on future earths that the descendants of the human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this - worldly , rather than other - worldly ...
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... our lives , and the institution of the family , with its core function as rearing device for the species , will command our commitment to a much lesser degree . PLAN OF THE BOOK Is all this really happening ? Introduction 5.
... our lives , and the institution of the family , with its core function as rearing device for the species , will command our commitment to a much lesser degree . PLAN OF THE BOOK Is all this really happening ? Introduction 5.
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... happening ? In the course of this book , I shall try to establish the reality of family decline and ideological change in America , and also the profound interconnection between these two revolutionary developments . Part 1 , " The ...
... happening ? In the course of this book , I shall try to establish the reality of family decline and ideological change in America , and also the profound interconnection between these two revolutionary developments . Part 1 , " The ...
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... happened to the notion stressed above to the 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 ...
... happened to the notion stressed above to the 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 ...
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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