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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... suggest that we have acquired a longer , not a shorter , time horizon . Gill's contribution in this book is to explain why , in his view , this natural assumption is wrong . His argument rests on the value we assign to a belief in the ...
... suggest that we have acquired a longer , not a shorter , time horizon . Gill's contribution in this book is to explain why , in his view , this natural assumption is wrong . His argument rests on the value we assign to a belief in the ...
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... suggested in the early 1970s ) bring the process to a screeching halt and , at the same time , totally destroy our belief in the Idea of Progress — namely , that things in general get better and better over time . It is very doubtful ...
... suggested in the early 1970s ) bring the process to a screeching halt and , at the same time , totally destroy our belief in the Idea of Progress — namely , that things in general get better and better over time . It is very doubtful ...
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... suggest and sustain the Idea of Progress . The Idea of Progress , with its strong emphasis on posterity and a benign ... suggesting grim if not disastrous future outcomes . • While most of these specific predicaments prove resolvable ...
... suggest and sustain the Idea of Progress . The Idea of Progress , with its strong emphasis on posterity and a benign ... suggesting grim if not disastrous future outcomes . • While most of these specific predicaments prove resolvable ...
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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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