The Shaking of the Foundations: Family and Society

ISBN-13: 9781032470481 / Angielski

Ronald Fletcher

Opis

Originally published in 1988, the author makes a new appraisal of the family in society today. Comprehensive in its range of material and straightforward in style, the book represents his thoughts on the family and marriage in Britain in the 1980s.

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List of Diagrams, Tables and Graphs.  Acknowledgments.  Preface.  Introduction.  Preparatory Considerations  1. The Significance of the 1960s: Prelude to the Divorce Reform Act  2. Continuing Anxieties and Common Concerns  3. The Family as the Basic Domestic Group in Society: Some Essential Characteristics  4. Family? Or Wider Social Causation?  Part I – The Family in Britain: After the Divorce Reform Act. Facts and Interpretations.  Part II – A World in Transformation: Progress and Crisis. Explanations and Conclusions.  1. Introduction  2. Accepted Areas of Causation and Explanation  3. Larger Issues. Crisis: The Shaking of the Foundations  4. The Future of the Family.  Notes.  Suggestions for Further Reading.  Index.

O autorze

Ronald Fletcher