The Family and Industrial Society

ISBN-13: 9781032104782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 270 str.

C. C. Harris

Opis

First published in 1983, the origin of this book is found in an article where the author attempted to relate traditional research on the family to developments in historical enquiry and Marxist scholarship. The aim here is to explain the character of the contemporary family by placing it in a wider historical and theoretical perspective.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  Part 1: Introductory.  Section I: Basics  1. Kinship 2. Marriage 3. Family  Section II: The Family and Industrial Society – the Functionalist Approach  4. The ‘Fit’ between Family and Society  5. The Family and Individual Mobility  Part 2: Exploratory.  Section I: Historical Understandings  6. The English Family before Industrialisation  7. Family and Industrialisation  8. The Character of English Family Life before Industrialisation  9. Distinguishing Family Types in Capitalist-Industrial Society  Section II: Marxist Perspectives  10. The Household and Family under Capitalism  Section III: The Family in Contemporary Britain  11. Official Statistics and the Decline of the Family  12. The Sociology of the Elementary Family.  Bibliography.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

C. C. Harris