Reading History Sideways - The Fallacy Enduring Impact of Developmental Paradigm on Family Life

Informationen zum Autor Arland Thornton is professor of sociology and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is the author or coauthor of several books! including Marriage and Cohabitation and Social Change and the Family in Taiwan! both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages! from primitive to advanced. This title demonstrates how this approach! though long since discredited! has permeated Western ideas about the family. This is an intriguing work, and it is clear from the conclusion that Thornton means it to provoke new scholarship, and particularly to serve as a catalyst for finding new comparative methodologies for studying the history of the family. . . . Historians of the family will benefit by engaging with Thornton's sweeping theories."--Susannah Ottaway "American Historical Review " Zusammenfassung European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages! from primitive to advanced. This title demonstrates how this approach! though long since discredited! has permeated Western ideas about the family.

Product details

• Authors: Arland Thornton, Thornton Arland
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2013
• EAN: 9780226104461
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10446-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Population and Development; Population and Development Series; Population and Development (CHUP)
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships