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 xv
... present era in which both institution and ideology are in serious decline . The second major reason for choosing this title , and one obviously requiring an apology to the memory of the poet John Milton , was pre- cisely because of the ...
... present era in which both institution and ideology are in serious decline . The second major reason for choosing this title , and one obviously requiring an apology to the memory of the poet John Milton , was pre- cisely because of the ...
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... present labors , efforts , and dreams find imaginative fulfill- ment , and as the raison d'etre for the care , attention , and sacrifices we make on behalf of our children and heirs through the institution of the family . It is no ...
... present labors , efforts , and dreams find imaginative fulfill- ment , and as the raison d'etre for the care , attention , and sacrifices we make on behalf of our children and heirs through the institution of the family . It is no ...
Página xvii
... present book were first articulated . Meanwhile , Nathan Glazer at Harvard is owed a permanent debt for constantly supporting my efforts to expand my horizons from purely economic issues to those affecting society at large . I also ...
... present book were first articulated . Meanwhile , Nathan Glazer at Harvard is owed a permanent debt for constantly supporting my efforts to expand my horizons from purely economic issues to those affecting society at large . I also ...
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... present inquiry . However , what is not beyond this inquiry , and indeed is central to it , is the connection that has to be drawn be- tween the two revolutions we have been discussing the institutional and the ideological , the ...
... present inquiry . However , what is not beyond this inquiry , and indeed is central to it , is the connection that has to be drawn be- tween the two revolutions we have been discussing the institutional and the ideological , the ...
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... . The fact is that the same general trends observable in the United States are present in all these different contexts . A suitable explanation of those trends must be rooted in the common scientific - technological. 6 Introduction.
... . The fact is that the same general trends observable in the United States are present in all these different contexts . A suitable explanation of those trends must be rooted in the common scientific - technological. 6 Introduction.
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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