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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... Problem : Family Breakdown and Its Relation to Progress 1 In Disarray : The American Family Approaching Year 2000 13 2 The Future at Risk : The Consequences of Family Breakdown 33 3 Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete 4 The ...
... Problem : Family Breakdown and Its Relation to Progress 1 In Disarray : The American Family Approaching Year 2000 13 2 The Future at Risk : The Consequences of Family Breakdown 33 3 Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete 4 The ...
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... problem that Americans have is not any mistake about the gravity of the problem or any imaginary contradiction in their prefer- ences as to it , but a narrow view of the scope of the problem . Their view , I think , is this : America ...
... problem that Americans have is not any mistake about the gravity of the problem or any imaginary contradiction in their prefer- ences as to it , but a narrow view of the scope of the problem . Their view , I think , is this : America ...
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... problem is to get rid of Afdc , or slash its benefits , or tighten its rules , or convert it into a required work program . This view has received next to no support from scholars who have looked at the program . Until recently there ...
... problem is to get rid of Afdc , or slash its benefits , or tighten its rules , or convert it into a required work program . This view has received next to no support from scholars who have looked at the program . Until recently there ...
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... problem , but they are far from the whole story . Richard Gill tells the rest of the story , and it is an important one . His argument is best left to his own words , but involves the rapid spread of what he , and some other scholars ...
... problem , but they are far from the whole story . Richard Gill tells the rest of the story , and it is an important one . His argument is best left to his own words , but involves the rapid spread of what he , and some other scholars ...
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... Problem , " is largely devoted to establishing the nature of the questions we must address and especially to explaining my conviction that family breakdown in the United States can only be explained in a very broad socioeconomic and ...
... Problem , " is largely devoted to establishing the nature of the questions we must address and especially to explaining my conviction that family breakdown in the United States can only be explained in a very broad socioeconomic and ...
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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