New Times: New Families

ISBN-13: 9781402004810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 161 str.

Victoria Carrington; V. Carrington

Opis

There can be little doubt that ours is a society riding the crest of vast and profound social and economic change. The material conditions and social landscapes through which we experience our lives are increasingly an unchartered sea of unanticipated shift and hidden consequence and many of us have the unsettling feeling that we are out of our depth. It is natural to respond to this rapid and fundamental change with concern, particularly when many of the enduring keystones of our lives have been problematized. Family is one such keystone. Family-and its apparent decline-is a topic of great interest. The breakdown of marriage and other relationships, family roles and responsibilities, the alienation of children, the rights of grandparents, juvenile crime and drug usage, and the emotional fallout of divorce are all current and emotive issues. Few individuals remain untouched by this debate. The changes we are witnessing in relation to family are made all the more worrisome because we have a limited vocabulary for discussing and understanding profound change-a vocabulary characterized by normative framings and assumptions of deficit. It is very easy to look at the changes in 'traditional' family structure and read 'breakdown', 'decline' and 'loss'. A politics of blame and rhetoric of 'reconstitution' very quickly follows. However, given the fundamental nature of contemporary social and economic change, this is not an adequate response.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part One: Contextualizing Family. 1. Reconstituting Traditional Family. Introduction; Neoliberal reconstruction of 'traditional' family in Australia. 2. Apolitical Accounts of the Family. Introduction; Social Darwinism; Structural Functionalism and the nuclear family; Systems theory. 3. The Pre-1970s Politicized Family. Introduction; Patriachy and the Western nuclear family-a gift from God; Marxist approaces; Feminist theory and family. 4. Critiques from within: Post-1970s Modernist Critiques and the Nuclear Narrative. Introduction; An Ecosystemic analysis of the nuclear family; Wilden's family; Habitus and symbolic violence. Part Two: From Fordist Keynesianism to Neoliberal New Economies. 5. The Boom Years: 1945-1973. Introduction; Nation building; The keynesian social contract; Family narratives. 6. Capitalism After 1973. Introduction; After 1973; the information Society-fast, late, globalizing capitalism. Part Three: New Times: New Families. 7. Ethnicity and Race to Interethnicity. Introduction. 8. Interethnicity and Globalization. Introduction; The Australian Context; A generational Shift; Geographies of interethnicity. 9. Globalization, Family and Community.Introduction; Globalization and community; Imagined community; Glocalization; New ethnicities and old framings. 10. Symbolic Violence: The Shape(ing) of Things to Come. Introduction; The nationstate response. 11. Landscaping `Family'. Introduction; Conclusion. Reference List. Index.