Name Game - Cultural Modernization and First Names

Informationen zum Autor Jurgen Gerhards Klappentext From decade to decade! significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old fashioned and replaced by new choices. In The Name Game! Gerhards shows that shifts in the choice of names are based on more than arbitrary trends of fashion. Instead! he demonstrates! they are determined by larger currents in cultural moderniation. Using classic tools of sociology! Gerhards focuses on changing patterns of first names in Germany from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth! using these as an indicator of cultural change. Among the influences he considers are religion! and he notes a trend toward greater seculariation in first names. Zusammenfassung From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: The Culture of Society; 2: Data, Methods, and Research Context; 3: Secularization Processes and the Dissolution of Religious Ties; 4: Regime Change and the Rise and Fall of German Names in the Twentieth Century; 5: Dissolution of Traditional Ties; 6: Rise of the Individual; 7: Globalization; 8: Gender Classification and Changing Sex Roles; 9: Synopsis: Cultural Developments and First Names

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• Authors: Jurgen Gerhards, Jürgen Gerhards, Jurgen (Universitat Leipzig) Gerhards
• Assisted by: Jurgen Gerhards (Editor), Jurgen (Universitat Leipzig) Gerhards (Editor), Gerhards Jurgen (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2005
• EAN: 9780765802972
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0297-2
• No. of pages: 127
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Germany, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours