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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... there are very few writers I have read over the past many years and even decades who have not influenced my thinking on this subject at least indirectly . But there 1 are also specific persons who have been of signal help. xvi Preface.
... there are very few writers I have read over the past many years and even decades who have not influenced my thinking on this subject at least indirectly . But there 1 are also specific persons who have been of signal help. xvi Preface.
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... specific persons who have been of signal help . I owe an impor- tant debt to James Q. Wilson , who not only has written the foreword to the book , but has also made many specific suggestions for additions and revisions that have greatly ...
... specific persons who have been of signal help . I owe an impor- tant debt to James Q. Wilson , who not only has written the foreword to the book , but has also made many specific suggestions for additions and revisions that have greatly ...
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... specific connotations than is appropriate and thus preference is here given to the broadest possible heading , which I designate " the process of progress . " What clearly has to be avoided is confusing the empirical " process of ...
... specific connotations than is appropriate and thus preference is here given to the broadest possible heading , which I designate " the process of progress . " What clearly has to be avoided is confusing the empirical " process of ...
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... specific predicaments prove resolvable , the process of progress by creating an ever more complex society , with constantly expanding ranges of individual choice and endless change , is also creating the fundamental predicament of ...
... specific predicaments prove resolvable , the process of progress by creating an ever more complex society , with constantly expanding ranges of individual choice and endless change , is also creating the fundamental predicament of ...
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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 |
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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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